BR65
18-08-2008, 06:54 PM
A quick report on my first trip to the Swains last week, 6 days of fishing some unique country based from the mother ship Eastern Voyager, sister ship to the Tura.
My mate and I spent the majority of the week fishing the gin clear shallow lagoons, hanging the 4 meter dorrie off a bommie and laying back to fish the base of another, a handfull of berley, an un-weighted bait on screwed down 30lb spin gear, 55lb Schneider leader and a 7766 7/0 were the weapons of choice, the street thugs we tangled with were mainly 2 to 3 kg red throat swetlip, trout and parrot, with the odd oversize mowie, reef shark, cod and various un-seen unstoppables. One of the un-stoppables that was stopped was a 23lb blue spot trout, taken out of 4 meters of water on a 6' alvey and 20lb fireline, yes Johnno still has all his fingers, that fish was successfully released as per DPI slot limits.
This really is awesome fishing, red lineing the gear in an effort to stop the fish gaining even half a meter of line, cause if you didnt turn their heads real quick in the shallows you were gooooone, all done in 6 meters of the clearest azure water you have ever seen, surrounded by huge coral bommies, waves crashing on the reef edge on the horizon, mind blowing stuff. A hot bite up there makes a good day down here pale in comparison. When we tired with the bait fishing, a quick swap to 7" gulps kept us keen to see how many species we could rack up on SP, I think we reached the even 10.
At night we would fish off the duckboard for big spangled emporer, more red throats, some un-stoppable cod, sharks, big big big squid and the odd handy size spanish mackeral, sipping bundys, talking B.S and generally fishing our selves into the ground.
We finished the trip on the last morning session fishing out of the dorrie, working an isolated bommie in 20 meters of water, drift fishing down its ledge, getting smashed by big red throat, trout, parrot, cod, chinamen and being bricked by some absolute un-stoppables on 40lb gear with 70lb leaders, a full fish box that session was a great hurah to this amazeing place.
Those who stayed on the mothership nailed plenty of nice trout and lippers, but no keeper reds, but they comforted themselves with the thought of the keg beer on tap only a short stretch of the arm away, talk about doin it tuff.
The food was great, hot brekky every morning, cold meats, seafood, burger or salads for lunch, and steak, fish, roasts for tea, plenty of cold beer, hard working deckies, sturdy dorries with 30 suzukis and navman sounders.
When am I going back??
Cant bloody wait.
cheers
brian
pics attatched arent the best, I was to busy fishing, sorry bout that, but can you blame me;D
My mate and I spent the majority of the week fishing the gin clear shallow lagoons, hanging the 4 meter dorrie off a bommie and laying back to fish the base of another, a handfull of berley, an un-weighted bait on screwed down 30lb spin gear, 55lb Schneider leader and a 7766 7/0 were the weapons of choice, the street thugs we tangled with were mainly 2 to 3 kg red throat swetlip, trout and parrot, with the odd oversize mowie, reef shark, cod and various un-seen unstoppables. One of the un-stoppables that was stopped was a 23lb blue spot trout, taken out of 4 meters of water on a 6' alvey and 20lb fireline, yes Johnno still has all his fingers, that fish was successfully released as per DPI slot limits.
This really is awesome fishing, red lineing the gear in an effort to stop the fish gaining even half a meter of line, cause if you didnt turn their heads real quick in the shallows you were gooooone, all done in 6 meters of the clearest azure water you have ever seen, surrounded by huge coral bommies, waves crashing on the reef edge on the horizon, mind blowing stuff. A hot bite up there makes a good day down here pale in comparison. When we tired with the bait fishing, a quick swap to 7" gulps kept us keen to see how many species we could rack up on SP, I think we reached the even 10.
At night we would fish off the duckboard for big spangled emporer, more red throats, some un-stoppable cod, sharks, big big big squid and the odd handy size spanish mackeral, sipping bundys, talking B.S and generally fishing our selves into the ground.
We finished the trip on the last morning session fishing out of the dorrie, working an isolated bommie in 20 meters of water, drift fishing down its ledge, getting smashed by big red throat, trout, parrot, cod, chinamen and being bricked by some absolute un-stoppables on 40lb gear with 70lb leaders, a full fish box that session was a great hurah to this amazeing place.
Those who stayed on the mothership nailed plenty of nice trout and lippers, but no keeper reds, but they comforted themselves with the thought of the keg beer on tap only a short stretch of the arm away, talk about doin it tuff.
The food was great, hot brekky every morning, cold meats, seafood, burger or salads for lunch, and steak, fish, roasts for tea, plenty of cold beer, hard working deckies, sturdy dorries with 30 suzukis and navman sounders.
When am I going back??
Cant bloody wait.
cheers
brian
pics attatched arent the best, I was to busy fishing, sorry bout that, but can you blame me;D