dayoo
16-06-2009, 09:26 AM
My fishing buddy Frank has been making a guest appearance as deckie on "Keely Rose" (Rainbow Beach Charter) for 6 of the past 9 days and phoned me up late on Saturday night and invited me up to do a special as there was only two booked in for Monday.
Headed up to Rainbow on Sunday afternoon and went around to Ed Falconers house (Ed is the skipper and owner of "Keely Rose") too find out the game plan for Monday. Ed said that 6am was blast off time and we would be hitting a mark out wide he hadn't fished for over 12 months. There would be two Canadian tourists also making the trip who hadn't fished before::) .
The next morning at 5am I met Frank and Ed and we prepared the boat, bait and rods for the days activities. Ed went to collect the two tourists and arrived back at the boat with two attractive Canadian tourists:o .
Ed said that Frank and I would have to do most of the fishing as the two ladies hadn't been fishing before and he would have to show and help the ladies how to fish;D .
After a steady cruise out doing 22knots we were approaching point X when Ed saw a huge show on the sounder. He said lets have a drop on this but we only got just legal hussar and three red throat emperors. We moved and another show on the sounder about a mile short of point x persuaded Ed to drop anchour and try our luck.
As soon as the baits neared the bottom all rods bent and up came large hussar around the 45cm size. After an hour we nearly had the bag limit of 50 hussar with the ladies excited at having so much fun (Ed too) when suddenly the hussar ceased biting. The sounder showed that we had moved slightly off the mark due to a wind change. Frank then changed to whole squid bait on a snood rig and was immediately slammed by a head shaker which turned out to be a 7kg red emperor. One of the ladies then screamed as her rod buckled over nearly pulling her in, Ed grabbed the rod and boated another red about 7kg. The two ladies were excited but were reluctant to drop down for fear of being pulled in or loosing the rod overboard and just took pics of the action that followed.
Frank on his next drop hooked into a big thumper of a red and half way up it let go. Inspection of the 8/0 gamakatsu hooks revealed that one had been bent out of shape :o :o = big reds. Ed then was on to another large red with his big gun 8/0 hooks but once again the hook was straightened:o :o .
While this was happening I boated a school red of about 7kg and then changed my hooks up to 10/0 big thick old mustards on a snood rig and dropped down with a hussar fillet. Slammmm TLD reel drag locked at 6kg and the fight was commenced. After some huffin and puffin with thoughts of my 40lb platypuss platinum line letting go I managed to land a nice 10kg red. This heralded the end of the reds as Mouri cod, sweetlip, gold spot wrasse and more hussar were boated.
Ed pulled the anchour and we moved over to another good show about 500metres away. Frank was first on and boated a nice 8kg blue mouri cod (cattle dog cod) followed by two nice coronation (lunar) trout. bastard!!!because I got bricked into the reef by what could have been a nice trout.
We headed back in at 2pm after many pics were taken on board. Frank wanted one twilight pick of his trout (will post pic later as I've exceeded the pic space).
The ladies were thrilled with their offshore trip and Ed filleted a few fish for them to take back to the backpackers hostel.
Thanks Ed and Frank for quick but exciting trip. Never made it to point x but there is always next time:)
Imagine doing an overnighter on the reds mark with decent sized hooks and whole hussar as bait;) ;) ;)
Rhys (aka revs57) is coming over at 10 am this morning to help me make 25kgs of sinkers. I phoned him last night and he is bringing over his filleting knife. He may score a slab of red emperor;D
Pics attached.
Cheers
Barry
Headed up to Rainbow on Sunday afternoon and went around to Ed Falconers house (Ed is the skipper and owner of "Keely Rose") too find out the game plan for Monday. Ed said that 6am was blast off time and we would be hitting a mark out wide he hadn't fished for over 12 months. There would be two Canadian tourists also making the trip who hadn't fished before::) .
The next morning at 5am I met Frank and Ed and we prepared the boat, bait and rods for the days activities. Ed went to collect the two tourists and arrived back at the boat with two attractive Canadian tourists:o .
Ed said that Frank and I would have to do most of the fishing as the two ladies hadn't been fishing before and he would have to show and help the ladies how to fish;D .
After a steady cruise out doing 22knots we were approaching point X when Ed saw a huge show on the sounder. He said lets have a drop on this but we only got just legal hussar and three red throat emperors. We moved and another show on the sounder about a mile short of point x persuaded Ed to drop anchour and try our luck.
As soon as the baits neared the bottom all rods bent and up came large hussar around the 45cm size. After an hour we nearly had the bag limit of 50 hussar with the ladies excited at having so much fun (Ed too) when suddenly the hussar ceased biting. The sounder showed that we had moved slightly off the mark due to a wind change. Frank then changed to whole squid bait on a snood rig and was immediately slammed by a head shaker which turned out to be a 7kg red emperor. One of the ladies then screamed as her rod buckled over nearly pulling her in, Ed grabbed the rod and boated another red about 7kg. The two ladies were excited but were reluctant to drop down for fear of being pulled in or loosing the rod overboard and just took pics of the action that followed.
Frank on his next drop hooked into a big thumper of a red and half way up it let go. Inspection of the 8/0 gamakatsu hooks revealed that one had been bent out of shape :o :o = big reds. Ed then was on to another large red with his big gun 8/0 hooks but once again the hook was straightened:o :o .
While this was happening I boated a school red of about 7kg and then changed my hooks up to 10/0 big thick old mustards on a snood rig and dropped down with a hussar fillet. Slammmm TLD reel drag locked at 6kg and the fight was commenced. After some huffin and puffin with thoughts of my 40lb platypuss platinum line letting go I managed to land a nice 10kg red. This heralded the end of the reds as Mouri cod, sweetlip, gold spot wrasse and more hussar were boated.
Ed pulled the anchour and we moved over to another good show about 500metres away. Frank was first on and boated a nice 8kg blue mouri cod (cattle dog cod) followed by two nice coronation (lunar) trout. bastard!!!because I got bricked into the reef by what could have been a nice trout.
We headed back in at 2pm after many pics were taken on board. Frank wanted one twilight pick of his trout (will post pic later as I've exceeded the pic space).
The ladies were thrilled with their offshore trip and Ed filleted a few fish for them to take back to the backpackers hostel.
Thanks Ed and Frank for quick but exciting trip. Never made it to point x but there is always next time:)
Imagine doing an overnighter on the reds mark with decent sized hooks and whole hussar as bait;) ;) ;)
Rhys (aka revs57) is coming over at 10 am this morning to help me make 25kgs of sinkers. I phoned him last night and he is bringing over his filleting knife. He may score a slab of red emperor;D
Pics attached.
Cheers
Barry