Alchemy
01-07-2009, 08:46 PM
Nic and I headed out Friday last week with our friends from the south, Mike and Simon. We headed to our nannygai spot X, which hadn't produced since November. This trip was better in that we got four good nannygai. Three around the 5 - 6kg mark and one 10kg horse. We were plagued by just under nannygai and a few just overs too. Thrown into the mix was a heap of school macs that seem to frequent this spot each winter, trevally and a patch of great grunter.
A few fish were taken on sp, but most fell to baits of mainly squid.
On Saturday Mike, Simon and I headed off to Lucinda. We fished our red spot, and thought we were in for a great session when the first drop produced a 7.5kg red for Mike, a Chinaman for Simon and a busted leader for me. From there on we stuggled to raise a fish, so headed over to the reef. Here things were very slow too, so as dark set in we returned to the red spot. Again it was poor, so we set off in search of new ground.
We found a good bit of bottom with fish showing, but these turned out to be big slateys to 8kg. Given our frustration we headed off to drop the pick for the night.
Sunday morning and we returned to the red spot. This time fish were there, but so were the sharks. Only the small cod and trevally made it to the boat. Mike boated a trout head that went 3kg, and I got a 4kg nannygai head. Every other good fish was taken too.
Come lunch time we headed back to the reef for lunch and a snorkel before calling it quits.
All up we got a good feed between both trips, but the sharks were a p.i.t.a. We then spent Monday chasing sooties before the guys had to catch their flights home.
Heres a few pics.
Dave.
A few fish were taken on sp, but most fell to baits of mainly squid.
On Saturday Mike, Simon and I headed off to Lucinda. We fished our red spot, and thought we were in for a great session when the first drop produced a 7.5kg red for Mike, a Chinaman for Simon and a busted leader for me. From there on we stuggled to raise a fish, so headed over to the reef. Here things were very slow too, so as dark set in we returned to the red spot. Again it was poor, so we set off in search of new ground.
We found a good bit of bottom with fish showing, but these turned out to be big slateys to 8kg. Given our frustration we headed off to drop the pick for the night.
Sunday morning and we returned to the red spot. This time fish were there, but so were the sharks. Only the small cod and trevally made it to the boat. Mike boated a trout head that went 3kg, and I got a 4kg nannygai head. Every other good fish was taken too.
Come lunch time we headed back to the reef for lunch and a snorkel before calling it quits.
All up we got a good feed between both trips, but the sharks were a p.i.t.a. We then spent Monday chasing sooties before the guys had to catch their flights home.
Heres a few pics.
Dave.