kitty_cat
23-07-2009, 05:26 PM
well what a awsome start to rainbow beach comp with 4 great fishing days weather and fish wise:)
cant do a full report just ran back to brisbane to pick up the kids for a family week end , but couldnt help tease with a small portion of pics i took on my phone.
we have some great footage of catch and realease of 4-5 kg reds after we bagged out .
i will report full story on monday when i get home
ok finally back home, what a week and a great copmp that they put on at rainbow beach (be quick next year word is that it will be capt at 1000 entrants and with no frazer comp may be first in next year)
we drove up friday arvo as start fish is friday 4pm and unpacked fueled up sorted out freezers ect and off to the ramp, knowing that there were some great conditions coming up from sunday to tuesdaday / wednesday the call was to stay in close and just acumulte some fillets for the freezers and maybe win some daily prizes up for offer as we knew not to many people would fish with great weather forecasted later in week, we managed just that a good feed and 2 or 3 daily prizes inc 2 x waceo eskys good score ,
the good weather started to come through on sunday and we were off for the shelf and that elusive winning red after ariving on the shelf we started to pull some unbelivable husser and for the first time kept them for eating too big for bait and great looking fish when they get around the couple of kilos plus mark after discussion that this was our red ground and didnt want to disturb it duruing the day hrs moved away for a mixed bag of reefies with the big snapper(8.5kgs whole) and a 12kg red being picked up as we moved around (just for interest 700klms over 5 days fishing) the parrot and gold spot keeped on chewuing through the day and as the sun started to set we headed for our ground found earlier in the day , things were consitant with a few reds and pearlies wrasse all steadily filling the box but hard going so we anchored up to find the current unfishable the call was to head in 10klms to try our luck closer with the current as it hadnt been a issue at all untill now in fact there was no current all day , so anchored up with the current still a problem got some zzs for a earlier crack at the reds back on the shelf, next morning was a hoota with the current on the shelf gone we were fishing strait up and down and the reds were thick as thick after 2-3 hrs fishing we had our bag limit and procedded to catch some for release on camerea just one each so we can say we have released reds we could of stayed on them for a heap more fish but left them chewing and search some new grounds for a heap of parrot and more reefies, we called it a day earliy as the eskys were full to the brim and bagg limits were getting close on a few species , on the way back through the bar we were met by the fishing athorieties that done a full search of the boat and inspected the whole catch as we keep a eye on our limits and cutting pec fins there was no issue and we were sent on our way with just a warning about 2-3 fish without pec fins cut as we had 40 fish and such a massive bite session to miss a couple could of cost us $400.00 we have learnt our lesson.at weigh in we had biggest snapper only to be knocked of biggest parrot only to be knocked off and 2nd in the red with prizes such as rods reels tackle boxes ect we had quite a haul of goodies to tack hom
so with our over all bagg limit almost reached we ate 2 reds for dinner and headed out again for the shelf to top up what we were alowed to catch ( fishos keeped a record of what we had caught) so back to the shelf for the 2 reds and finished our bagg limit on good size parrot and gold spot wrasse for another great over nighter with fish just consistantly hitting the box so this was 5 full days of fishing and heaps of fish bagging out on reds , parrot and red reef fin fish (60 , 20 each) with a few pearlies and snapper thrown in as well and we were exsausted and can i say it over fishing for the week.
we tolk the opertunity as the winds had moved in by now to shoot back top brissy and grab the kids for some beach fishing and reelaxing they had a ball at the weigh ins and fishing it was a graet end to a awsome week .
our final resaults
2nd overall parrot $200.00
2nd overall snapper $200.00
and jay won a door prize of a free fishing charter with the local shark guy Greg.
heaps of pics and footage to come just need to get them from a xd card to a sd card
wayne
cant do a full report just ran back to brisbane to pick up the kids for a family week end , but couldnt help tease with a small portion of pics i took on my phone.
we have some great footage of catch and realease of 4-5 kg reds after we bagged out .
i will report full story on monday when i get home
ok finally back home, what a week and a great copmp that they put on at rainbow beach (be quick next year word is that it will be capt at 1000 entrants and with no frazer comp may be first in next year)
we drove up friday arvo as start fish is friday 4pm and unpacked fueled up sorted out freezers ect and off to the ramp, knowing that there were some great conditions coming up from sunday to tuesdaday / wednesday the call was to stay in close and just acumulte some fillets for the freezers and maybe win some daily prizes up for offer as we knew not to many people would fish with great weather forecasted later in week, we managed just that a good feed and 2 or 3 daily prizes inc 2 x waceo eskys good score ,
the good weather started to come through on sunday and we were off for the shelf and that elusive winning red after ariving on the shelf we started to pull some unbelivable husser and for the first time kept them for eating too big for bait and great looking fish when they get around the couple of kilos plus mark after discussion that this was our red ground and didnt want to disturb it duruing the day hrs moved away for a mixed bag of reefies with the big snapper(8.5kgs whole) and a 12kg red being picked up as we moved around (just for interest 700klms over 5 days fishing) the parrot and gold spot keeped on chewuing through the day and as the sun started to set we headed for our ground found earlier in the day , things were consitant with a few reds and pearlies wrasse all steadily filling the box but hard going so we anchored up to find the current unfishable the call was to head in 10klms to try our luck closer with the current as it hadnt been a issue at all untill now in fact there was no current all day , so anchored up with the current still a problem got some zzs for a earlier crack at the reds back on the shelf, next morning was a hoota with the current on the shelf gone we were fishing strait up and down and the reds were thick as thick after 2-3 hrs fishing we had our bag limit and procedded to catch some for release on camerea just one each so we can say we have released reds we could of stayed on them for a heap more fish but left them chewing and search some new grounds for a heap of parrot and more reefies, we called it a day earliy as the eskys were full to the brim and bagg limits were getting close on a few species , on the way back through the bar we were met by the fishing athorieties that done a full search of the boat and inspected the whole catch as we keep a eye on our limits and cutting pec fins there was no issue and we were sent on our way with just a warning about 2-3 fish without pec fins cut as we had 40 fish and such a massive bite session to miss a couple could of cost us $400.00 we have learnt our lesson.at weigh in we had biggest snapper only to be knocked of biggest parrot only to be knocked off and 2nd in the red with prizes such as rods reels tackle boxes ect we had quite a haul of goodies to tack hom
so with our over all bagg limit almost reached we ate 2 reds for dinner and headed out again for the shelf to top up what we were alowed to catch ( fishos keeped a record of what we had caught) so back to the shelf for the 2 reds and finished our bagg limit on good size parrot and gold spot wrasse for another great over nighter with fish just consistantly hitting the box so this was 5 full days of fishing and heaps of fish bagging out on reds , parrot and red reef fin fish (60 , 20 each) with a few pearlies and snapper thrown in as well and we were exsausted and can i say it over fishing for the week.
we tolk the opertunity as the winds had moved in by now to shoot back top brissy and grab the kids for some beach fishing and reelaxing they had a ball at the weigh ins and fishing it was a graet end to a awsome week .
our final resaults
2nd overall parrot $200.00
2nd overall snapper $200.00
and jay won a door prize of a free fishing charter with the local shark guy Greg.
heaps of pics and footage to come just need to get them from a xd card to a sd card
wayne