levinge
04-11-2008, 09:51 PM
Well, only 1 keeper in the boat, but another deckie gets a PB.
The day started with Ron (Ronnien) arriving at my place around 10:30 (Wh, All will be revealed), suffice to say I would have been on the water earlier but for the fact that my brother was arriving from Brisbane and I had to collect him from the airport.
So Ron and I loaded up the boat and decided to park close to the Airport and await the phone call saying that he was here and ready to go.WELL!!!!
Parked nedar the airport and sat there waiting, waiting, waiting and waiting some more. After about 20 minutes past his scheduled landing time, I begin to think that Qantas has had another breakdown. Not so, Ron tried ringing my mobile and low and behold, the bloody thing is on the fritz. Power off, power on, SMS received "where are you, I am here" OOPS F*&k, start the car and a few seconds later, we have him in the car and off to the ramp.
Launch and on the water, Run out of the harbour wasn't too back and the swell, wind and wave direction wasn't ugly. Push out past Magnetic Island and the swell cleans up a little. Took us 75 minutes to get out to Moonraker aropund 1:30pm. Once there we decided to do a drift around the area first. Lines in the water, baits hit the bottom and within 5 minutes Rons hauling back on the line and up comes a nice Nannygai. This is going to be one sweet day. Run back up to the top of the mark and commence another drift. Couple of good touches over the next hour, but no keepers in the boat, Ron just keeps hooking up Trigger Fish.
We then decided to anchor up on the mark and try a little bottom bashing. Mark found and anchors away. At this stage we are feeding the fish because no one is hooking up. My brother Carl, decides to change tack and rig up and ganged hook for bottom bashing. Over the side it goes, WELL, not too long later and his drag starts to scream, He is onto a good fish, we start call it, GT, Spaniard (something about my Boat comes to mind). Anyway this Monster breaks the surface, but nobody caught a good look at it, Silver colour was seen, I think!!!!
Anyway this thing has big runs, and was putting a severe bend in my 24kg thick broomstick rod and the Okuma SA80 was doing its job really well. Anyway this thing comes to the surface again about 30 metres directly behind the boat..... SHARK!!!!! and a big bastard at that. I jump on the Trim Tilt and lift the leg out of the water, not cutting off on the prop with this guy. He sees the boat and screams off again, Carl yells out "no don't do that ya bastard" and he did, turning sharply this shark peels off a good 40 metres of line before Carl is able to turn his head.
Both Fish and Man are now at a point where they are both hurting big time. Carl turns his head and begins to bring him closer to the boat. This shark is absolutely stuffed and so is the angler, a few good pumps on the rod and this monster comes up close to the boat. Ron ever ready with the camera captures a couple of happy snaps. With one last burst the shark turns head down and 2 big pumps of his tail, SNAP the braid and leader part ways and this fish swims off.....
Nothing much happened after that, 4pm we head back toward Magnetic Island. Trolled from Horseshoe Bay to Bay Rock with one hit and no hookup. Headed for home, 1 fish in the boat but one hell of a story for my brother to tell his mates back in Bris Vegas....
That thing about my Boat, "Hard Livin" has scored a 6 foot Bronze Whaler about 2 months back and another one today. we think he went 8 to 9 Foot, big and fat. Go know how much he weighed, but he was a thumper.....
The day started with Ron (Ronnien) arriving at my place around 10:30 (Wh, All will be revealed), suffice to say I would have been on the water earlier but for the fact that my brother was arriving from Brisbane and I had to collect him from the airport.
So Ron and I loaded up the boat and decided to park close to the Airport and await the phone call saying that he was here and ready to go.WELL!!!!
Parked nedar the airport and sat there waiting, waiting, waiting and waiting some more. After about 20 minutes past his scheduled landing time, I begin to think that Qantas has had another breakdown. Not so, Ron tried ringing my mobile and low and behold, the bloody thing is on the fritz. Power off, power on, SMS received "where are you, I am here" OOPS F*&k, start the car and a few seconds later, we have him in the car and off to the ramp.
Launch and on the water, Run out of the harbour wasn't too back and the swell, wind and wave direction wasn't ugly. Push out past Magnetic Island and the swell cleans up a little. Took us 75 minutes to get out to Moonraker aropund 1:30pm. Once there we decided to do a drift around the area first. Lines in the water, baits hit the bottom and within 5 minutes Rons hauling back on the line and up comes a nice Nannygai. This is going to be one sweet day. Run back up to the top of the mark and commence another drift. Couple of good touches over the next hour, but no keepers in the boat, Ron just keeps hooking up Trigger Fish.
We then decided to anchor up on the mark and try a little bottom bashing. Mark found and anchors away. At this stage we are feeding the fish because no one is hooking up. My brother Carl, decides to change tack and rig up and ganged hook for bottom bashing. Over the side it goes, WELL, not too long later and his drag starts to scream, He is onto a good fish, we start call it, GT, Spaniard (something about my Boat comes to mind). Anyway this Monster breaks the surface, but nobody caught a good look at it, Silver colour was seen, I think!!!!
Anyway this thing has big runs, and was putting a severe bend in my 24kg thick broomstick rod and the Okuma SA80 was doing its job really well. Anyway this thing comes to the surface again about 30 metres directly behind the boat..... SHARK!!!!! and a big bastard at that. I jump on the Trim Tilt and lift the leg out of the water, not cutting off on the prop with this guy. He sees the boat and screams off again, Carl yells out "no don't do that ya bastard" and he did, turning sharply this shark peels off a good 40 metres of line before Carl is able to turn his head.
Both Fish and Man are now at a point where they are both hurting big time. Carl turns his head and begins to bring him closer to the boat. This shark is absolutely stuffed and so is the angler, a few good pumps on the rod and this monster comes up close to the boat. Ron ever ready with the camera captures a couple of happy snaps. With one last burst the shark turns head down and 2 big pumps of his tail, SNAP the braid and leader part ways and this fish swims off.....
Nothing much happened after that, 4pm we head back toward Magnetic Island. Trolled from Horseshoe Bay to Bay Rock with one hit and no hookup. Headed for home, 1 fish in the boat but one hell of a story for my brother to tell his mates back in Bris Vegas....
That thing about my Boat, "Hard Livin" has scored a 6 foot Bronze Whaler about 2 months back and another one today. we think he went 8 to 9 Foot, big and fat. Go know how much he weighed, but he was a thumper.....