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03-10-2011, 08:51 PM
Just spent the last 2 weeks at the sunny coast fishing and was able to put together a few fishing trips.
First trip was with my 2 sons Will and Matt. As well as being Matts first offshore trip it was a chance for me to play around and learn to use my new Raymarine fishfinder/gps combo. As Matt has a tendancy for travel sickness we fished the close in reefs off of Mooloolaba. I played deckie for the session keeping the boys baited up and rerigging after what seemed like a hundred snags. The boys caught many under size fish and they both ended up bringing home a grassy each which they were very happy with.
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2nd trip was with Will and my mate Robbo and we headed down to Caloundra 12 mile chasing snaps. Conditions were great but the fish didn't really play the game but we managed to bring in a mixed bag of snaps (no real quality), grassys, venus tusk fish, moses perch and Robbo also caught a nice goat fish. The bonus of this trip was that we had plenty of close whale action and we also hand fed a dolphin that came right up to the back of the boat and took a pilly out of Robbos hand.
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The wind blew hard from the south for a few days so we didn't fish. The day the wind dropped off I ventured out to Murphys with Will and my brother Mark hoping that the southerly wind had brought the fish on the bite. The day started out with some small reefies hussars and a grassy and then the snaps come on the bite. We ended up with 11 snaps 3 going over 70cm. I firstly got a PB for me of 71 cm and then my brother Mark caught a 72cm. I then topped it off with another PB at 73cm. It was a great session and one to remember. we were fishing 6 kilo braid with a 14lb vanish leader, 12gram jig head 4/0 hook with 5 inch gulp jerk shad in sardine colour. The snaps loved those gulps and we also caught a few on on a ball sinker straight to the hook and squid bait.
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Looking at some of the other threads there have been some great catches so congrats to all who have been out in the past couple of weeks.
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First trip was with my 2 sons Will and Matt. As well as being Matts first offshore trip it was a chance for me to play around and learn to use my new Raymarine fishfinder/gps combo. As Matt has a tendancy for travel sickness we fished the close in reefs off of Mooloolaba. I played deckie for the session keeping the boys baited up and rerigging after what seemed like a hundred snags. The boys caught many under size fish and they both ended up bringing home a grassy each which they were very happy with.
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2nd trip was with Will and my mate Robbo and we headed down to Caloundra 12 mile chasing snaps. Conditions were great but the fish didn't really play the game but we managed to bring in a mixed bag of snaps (no real quality), grassys, venus tusk fish, moses perch and Robbo also caught a nice goat fish. The bonus of this trip was that we had plenty of close whale action and we also hand fed a dolphin that came right up to the back of the boat and took a pilly out of Robbos hand.
72121
The wind blew hard from the south for a few days so we didn't fish. The day the wind dropped off I ventured out to Murphys with Will and my brother Mark hoping that the southerly wind had brought the fish on the bite. The day started out with some small reefies hussars and a grassy and then the snaps come on the bite. We ended up with 11 snaps 3 going over 70cm. I firstly got a PB for me of 71 cm and then my brother Mark caught a 72cm. I then topped it off with another PB at 73cm. It was a great session and one to remember. we were fishing 6 kilo braid with a 14lb vanish leader, 12gram jig head 4/0 hook with 5 inch gulp jerk shad in sardine colour. The snaps loved those gulps and we also caught a few on on a ball sinker straight to the hook and squid bait.
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Looking at some of the other threads there have been some great catches so congrats to all who have been out in the past couple of weeks.
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