Smithy
10-02-2010, 11:05 AM
This is my December less days that have allready been posted in other threads.
Steve Half Day (http://sunshinecoastdeepseafishingcharters.com.au/blog/blog1.php/2009/12/31/steve-half-day)
December 31st, 2009
I shouldn't have put to sea this day but the weather had been iffy the whole time and lots of holiday makers were keen to have a fish. The day got off to a bad start when I forget to disconnect the winch cable, the second time in over 300 launches. This buggered up my mudguard which was in poor shape anyway. Who would want to run a charterboat with the continual niggling boat issues plus the corrosive nature of saltwater? We were trying to get to the blinker where we knew the fish were but we only got as far as the Inner Gneerings. Steve took seasick so I did a downsea troll to Old Woman Island. We didn't have any hits and were home and back on the trailer within two hours.
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Wayne and Bruce Full Day (http://sunshinecoastdeepseafishingcharters.com.au/blog/blog1.php/2009/12/30/wayne-and-bruce-full-day)
December 30th, 2009
Wayne and Bruce were up from Melbourne on holidays and wanted to go fishing. We started off down at Caloundra and in sloppy seas on the second pass we landed a spanish mackerel. There wasn't much bait there so I headed to another close spot. This looked the goods and sure enough we were straight into another spanish but the hooks pulled mid fight. The bait was there but the fish weren't chewing. We eventuall pulled a spotty mackerel then we were swamped by boats. I tried all the other Caloundra reefs but did no good so we put the high speed lures out. Within 10mins out the back of the Caloundra 12mile we were connected to a good wahoo but we pulled the hooks clearing the other rod. We trolled up to Mooloolaba and jigged up some bait just as Craig McCulloch's 7.2m Kevlacat Reel Capture tagged their second marlin for the day. We put some live baits out and pretty quickly we had a mahi mahi on. A while later we pulled the hooks one what would have been a shark or a marlin that had a lot of speed and weight but didn't jump. One the same rig a while later we straighted the circle hook on another good size mahi mahi after a good jump, the fish before must have fatigued it. The boys were happy to head in early if I gave them a hand with cleaning the fish. Not a bad day with the action not red hot but steady all day just the same.
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x197/blackfin15/Charters/2009/December/Image_00012s.jpg
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Failure to Launch (http://sunshinecoastdeepseafishingcharters.com.au/blog/blog1.php/2009/12/29/failure-to-launch)
December 29th, 2009
I had my first bit of major boat trouble at the ramp this morning which cancelled my day. In the end it was a simple fix with a main ignition fuse corroded on one leg but the boat has always been super reliable for me or easily fixed. I took it to a mate Mark who has an autoelectrical business and we started tracing the wires with a test light after checking the batteries etc. After pulling the boat apart it had to be at the battery end and sure enough I found the fuse. It had a spare in the holder and if I had found it at the ramp we could have been away and fishing in no time. Very frustrating to say the least.
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Danish Full Day Gamefishing Charter (http://sunshinecoastdeepseafishingcharters.com.au/blog/blog1.php/2009/12/23/danish-full-day-gamefishing-charter)
December 23rd, 2009
I had two Danish tourists aboard today who wanted to catch marlin. Well we did real well tagging one each for the boys as well as keeping a mahi mahi for them for a feed. The drift was quick early so I concentrated on securing a fair heap of slimy mackerel for live bait. Once I had a tank full I was happy and knew it had set up my day nicely. We wandered away from the fleet to get a couple of live baits out and to have a slow troll around looking for our own bait. A short while into the troll and we were hooked up to a nice black marlin. 40mins later I had it on the leader and then into the boat for a photo. We tagged it, measured it and let it go. It's short length was 1.59m making it 38kg from the length to weight tables. Next fish up as we trolled back to the fleet was a mahi mahi. It went in the ice box and we put another slimy out. The bait broke up a bit but I was lucky enough to keep finding it a bit south of the fleet. Right next to a few boats we hooked up again and were on. A bit of fancy boat manouvaring and with an experienced crew we would have secured a tag within about 2 minutes but it ended up a 20min fight as I leadered our second for the day. This one was 30kg from the length to weight tables. It went quiet from then on so we put the lures and gar out and had a troll around. Some of the bait looked ok but it didn't happen. We got the call that birds were chopping the surface everywhere in close but they ended up being bonito so we had a bit of fun and topped up the bait supplies for next time.
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Mick Milligan Half Day Charter out of Rainbow Beach (http://sunshinecoastdeepseafishingcharters.com.au/blog/blog1.php/2009/12/22/mick-milligan-half-day-charter-out-of-ra)
December 22nd, 2009
Mick booked me in to take himself, his dad Rick and mate Damo out for the morning. We put in at Carlo Point boat ramp and headed to the bar. It was dead flat and we crossed fisherman's gutter with no problem. We started looking for bait on the 38m reefs and there was heaps there but it all looked like whitebait or glass or frogmouth pilchards. We had a few drifts on every likely looking show pulling a few pearlies of legal or just under sizes. Eventually we cracked a reef that looked the goods. The plastics were performing pulling the best pearlie as well as a good 71cm snappper. It went off the boil a bit so we keep looking. One spot looked ok and we pulled a couple of fish but where we had come from was definately the place to be. We headed back and pulled another nice snapper then we pulled the hooks on what would have been a nice AJ also on the plastics. Damo ended up hooking up bigtime right as we called last drop and pulled in a 82cm snapper on his own bottom basher. Back in through the main bar which had barely a ripple on it topping off a top morning.
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Dwayne Full Day Charter Out of Rainbow Beach (http://sunshinecoastdeepseafishingcharters.com.au/blog/blog1.php/2009/12/21/dwayne-full-day-charter-out-of-rainbow-b)
December 21st, 2009
Dwayne had me booked in to take him out for quite some time on this date. His crew constantly changed but eventually John and his son locked themselves in. We started off trolling but it was quiet. We switched to bottom bashing but the current was racing. We picked a few up the first drift with parrot the main thing coming up and then trolled back north. Next drift we did better with Dwayne picking up a spangled emperor over 80cm and some red throat emperor hitting the deck. Dwayned ended up with a good coronation trout in one of the drifts and species list included a rainbow runner, yellowtail kingfish, a hussar and a fair few red throats and parrot. The current was running at about 2.3knots so we headed back in to look for spotty mackerel. We cast at about 12 mack tuna schools but couldn't find any spottys.
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x197/blackfin15/Charters/2009/December/P2251334a.jpg
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x197/blackfin15/Charters/2009/December/P2251338a.jpg
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x197/blackfin15/Charters/2009/December/P2251343a.jpg
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Steve Half Day (http://sunshinecoastdeepseafishingcharters.com.au/blog/blog1.php/2009/12/31/steve-half-day)
December 31st, 2009
I shouldn't have put to sea this day but the weather had been iffy the whole time and lots of holiday makers were keen to have a fish. The day got off to a bad start when I forget to disconnect the winch cable, the second time in over 300 launches. This buggered up my mudguard which was in poor shape anyway. Who would want to run a charterboat with the continual niggling boat issues plus the corrosive nature of saltwater? We were trying to get to the blinker where we knew the fish were but we only got as far as the Inner Gneerings. Steve took seasick so I did a downsea troll to Old Woman Island. We didn't have any hits and were home and back on the trailer within two hours.
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Wayne and Bruce Full Day (http://sunshinecoastdeepseafishingcharters.com.au/blog/blog1.php/2009/12/30/wayne-and-bruce-full-day)
December 30th, 2009
Wayne and Bruce were up from Melbourne on holidays and wanted to go fishing. We started off down at Caloundra and in sloppy seas on the second pass we landed a spanish mackerel. There wasn't much bait there so I headed to another close spot. This looked the goods and sure enough we were straight into another spanish but the hooks pulled mid fight. The bait was there but the fish weren't chewing. We eventuall pulled a spotty mackerel then we were swamped by boats. I tried all the other Caloundra reefs but did no good so we put the high speed lures out. Within 10mins out the back of the Caloundra 12mile we were connected to a good wahoo but we pulled the hooks clearing the other rod. We trolled up to Mooloolaba and jigged up some bait just as Craig McCulloch's 7.2m Kevlacat Reel Capture tagged their second marlin for the day. We put some live baits out and pretty quickly we had a mahi mahi on. A while later we pulled the hooks one what would have been a shark or a marlin that had a lot of speed and weight but didn't jump. One the same rig a while later we straighted the circle hook on another good size mahi mahi after a good jump, the fish before must have fatigued it. The boys were happy to head in early if I gave them a hand with cleaning the fish. Not a bad day with the action not red hot but steady all day just the same.
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x197/blackfin15/Charters/2009/December/Image_00012s.jpg
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Failure to Launch (http://sunshinecoastdeepseafishingcharters.com.au/blog/blog1.php/2009/12/29/failure-to-launch)
December 29th, 2009
I had my first bit of major boat trouble at the ramp this morning which cancelled my day. In the end it was a simple fix with a main ignition fuse corroded on one leg but the boat has always been super reliable for me or easily fixed. I took it to a mate Mark who has an autoelectrical business and we started tracing the wires with a test light after checking the batteries etc. After pulling the boat apart it had to be at the battery end and sure enough I found the fuse. It had a spare in the holder and if I had found it at the ramp we could have been away and fishing in no time. Very frustrating to say the least.
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Danish Full Day Gamefishing Charter (http://sunshinecoastdeepseafishingcharters.com.au/blog/blog1.php/2009/12/23/danish-full-day-gamefishing-charter)
December 23rd, 2009
I had two Danish tourists aboard today who wanted to catch marlin. Well we did real well tagging one each for the boys as well as keeping a mahi mahi for them for a feed. The drift was quick early so I concentrated on securing a fair heap of slimy mackerel for live bait. Once I had a tank full I was happy and knew it had set up my day nicely. We wandered away from the fleet to get a couple of live baits out and to have a slow troll around looking for our own bait. A short while into the troll and we were hooked up to a nice black marlin. 40mins later I had it on the leader and then into the boat for a photo. We tagged it, measured it and let it go. It's short length was 1.59m making it 38kg from the length to weight tables. Next fish up as we trolled back to the fleet was a mahi mahi. It went in the ice box and we put another slimy out. The bait broke up a bit but I was lucky enough to keep finding it a bit south of the fleet. Right next to a few boats we hooked up again and were on. A bit of fancy boat manouvaring and with an experienced crew we would have secured a tag within about 2 minutes but it ended up a 20min fight as I leadered our second for the day. This one was 30kg from the length to weight tables. It went quiet from then on so we put the lures and gar out and had a troll around. Some of the bait looked ok but it didn't happen. We got the call that birds were chopping the surface everywhere in close but they ended up being bonito so we had a bit of fun and topped up the bait supplies for next time.
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Mick Milligan Half Day Charter out of Rainbow Beach (http://sunshinecoastdeepseafishingcharters.com.au/blog/blog1.php/2009/12/22/mick-milligan-half-day-charter-out-of-ra)
December 22nd, 2009
Mick booked me in to take himself, his dad Rick and mate Damo out for the morning. We put in at Carlo Point boat ramp and headed to the bar. It was dead flat and we crossed fisherman's gutter with no problem. We started looking for bait on the 38m reefs and there was heaps there but it all looked like whitebait or glass or frogmouth pilchards. We had a few drifts on every likely looking show pulling a few pearlies of legal or just under sizes. Eventually we cracked a reef that looked the goods. The plastics were performing pulling the best pearlie as well as a good 71cm snappper. It went off the boil a bit so we keep looking. One spot looked ok and we pulled a couple of fish but where we had come from was definately the place to be. We headed back and pulled another nice snapper then we pulled the hooks on what would have been a nice AJ also on the plastics. Damo ended up hooking up bigtime right as we called last drop and pulled in a 82cm snapper on his own bottom basher. Back in through the main bar which had barely a ripple on it topping off a top morning.
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Dwayne Full Day Charter Out of Rainbow Beach (http://sunshinecoastdeepseafishingcharters.com.au/blog/blog1.php/2009/12/21/dwayne-full-day-charter-out-of-rainbow-b)
December 21st, 2009
Dwayne had me booked in to take him out for quite some time on this date. His crew constantly changed but eventually John and his son locked themselves in. We started off trolling but it was quiet. We switched to bottom bashing but the current was racing. We picked a few up the first drift with parrot the main thing coming up and then trolled back north. Next drift we did better with Dwayne picking up a spangled emperor over 80cm and some red throat emperor hitting the deck. Dwayned ended up with a good coronation trout in one of the drifts and species list included a rainbow runner, yellowtail kingfish, a hussar and a fair few red throats and parrot. The current was running at about 2.3knots so we headed back in to look for spotty mackerel. We cast at about 12 mack tuna schools but couldn't find any spottys.
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x197/blackfin15/Charters/2009/December/P2251334a.jpg
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x197/blackfin15/Charters/2009/December/P2251338a.jpg
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x197/blackfin15/Charters/2009/December/P2251343a.jpg
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