bunker group lippers

[vertico]

Hit the bunker group on saturday morning and was met with a light westerly breeze at the ramp. Proceeeded to the live bait marks and found some very brown water and no liveys. We did find a shitload of mackerel including spotties, schoolies and small spaniards taking a liking to our bait jigs and sinkers. Decided against wasting time on these small fish and motored along at around 20 - 25 knots to boult reef. Headed straight to a regular mark just outside the reef and on the first drop put a nice red, trout and maori cod into the esky. Next drift and nothing at all...... somethings up. Move onto the ever faithful trout mark and start pulling up redthroats of around 60cm. Old mate hooked up to a shark and proceeded to bring it up until the shark decided that his rod was too flimsy and snapped it in hald like bamboo. Headed wider and further north until we were east of sykes reef in around 70m of water still having trouble to get away from those pesky red throat. Another red coming to the boat and a couple of coronation trout. Conditions couldnt have been better on saturday with the wind and current non existent making fishing a spot very easy but the fish weren't overlly excited about the lack of run. Headed into the lagoon for the night and had a fish pulling some milf and a small spangley. Woke up in the morning to a strong SEaster of around 15 knots. Decided to have a nother fish in the lagoon and landed a nice 3 - 4kg spangled emperor in 4m of water in the SW corner of the lagoon. Also landed a red bass around the same size , dont they pull some string and got busted up big time by probably a sizeable spangley. Left the lagoon around 7am and fished our way back to 1770. Conditions deteriorated to around 25 knots of SEasterly gusting which made a nice wet trip home. We did land a heap more grassies and other mixed reefies on the way home on some close in reefs. will post some more pics when they are emailed.
thanks
sean

[Angla]

It's a shame you couldnt get into the decent sized mackerel but the reefies certainly put a lining in the esky. I personally like the husser as a table fish.

Chris

[outsiderskip]

nice catch seano
should have filed up on
mackeral on way home

pete

[seapup]

Nice colour there Sean. Those conditions look epic on the first day!

[Jeremy]

what size boat? I like the swag on the floor.

Jeremy

[lethal098]

quality catch there guys well done. cheers Lethal

[Stuie]

Nice catch Sean. We were up there just over a week ago. Couldn't find livies then either.

[swano]

some nice colour there well done
cheers swano

[backlash08]

nice work Sean, hoping to get there in a few weeks myself
cheers - Craig

[vertico]

jeremy its a 529 frontier stabicraft side console with a 90 etec

chris... hussar are ok but trout and reds are better..

[tfish]

some great lookin fish there. thanks for the report!! cheers trav

[jtpython]

Awesome reefies mate looks to have been a great trip
handle's well too the boat hey
JT

[vertico]

ive never felt unsafe in the stabicraft owned it since new in 2005 and have racked up 500 fault free hours on the etec 90. It is a wet boat with a bit of cross wind but makes up for it in abilty in the rough stuff.

[skipalong]

nice fish sean looks like magic on the water

cheers justin

[warti]

Awesome colour trout. Nice bag.

[vertico]

pete with 30knots blowing i wasnt really interested in mackerel...

[Frank OO]

Hi Sean,

What a fantastic action shot of the broken rod. Good to see some nice weather.

Frank OO

[Nic]

I agree, why chase small mackerel when there are sweeties and trout about! Well done, that trout is a stunning colour.

Did you catch the reefies on bait or did you try some artificials as well?

Hope that rod wasn't an expensive one...

[vertico]

mostly caught on stinky bait as ive found it works best when targetting trout and reds. No point wasting time.

[Lucky_Phill]

Give us a pm next time you're doing a quickie, Sean.

The big rig needs a run ;)


Phill

[Benno1]

decent weather weather window...came home with a healthy looking esky...fantastic trip id say :D
cheers for the piccies (love the broken rod one) and report :D

Mrs Benno1
Sunny

[matt__hill]

wasting time is a big statement seano about the plastics and jigs.................
we have the proof we have the technology lol

[vertico]

where is your reds on plastic mate :P
sean

[jarhead]

Congrats on a top trip and a healthy esky. Thanks for sharing the pics and read. Gotta love those trout.

Cheers Wal

[Nic]

I have scored some good reds on softies... but then again they were Gulps, I suppose that should be classed as bait!

I do ditch the softies pretty quick if everyone else is catching 'em on bait... you're right, it gets the job done!

[vertico]

yerh i havent really tried for reds on soft plastics, most times you need to have it working right on the bottom and trout like to do the disappearing trick on you.