lightsout76
09-01-2012, 10:06 AM
Did a trip with 2 boats up to 1770 75507 on the weekend Left friday lunch time and boat on the water at 19:30ish for a relatively good run out and stopped at a couple of marks out near Fitzroy for a few RTE and a stack of hussar.
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Gave it a bit then moved towards Fitzy for a bit of shut eye then kicked off early and headed about 10kms out wide from Fitzy searched around for a bit but to no avail, the boys in the other boat stayed in a little closer and weren't doing any better, so we moved up right out east of One Tree picked up more hussar and a nice Black Spot Wrasse, still no Reds.
We decided to do a little searching around out on the 100mtr line but run over a good patch of fish in the 80-90mtrs so had a drop on then and i hooked up solid on a good fish that about half way up started fighting alot harder and thumping alot faster which, as i suspected suddenly got hit by an underwater freight train and the sharks one what we soon found out would've been a good pearly.
Still on the same drift and one of the other boys (Luke) hooked up just seconds after me and cranked the shit out of it to get it up before the grey coats moved in and busted the handle on his shimano TSS4 while winding but still managed to get to the surface a cracking pearly which came in at 63cm.
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We tried a few more drifts over the same spot but the current played a bit of havoc on us so we didn't pick up any more. The other boat fished around closer to Fitzroy but they didn't pick up anything sizable.
We did a stack more searching for ground but got nothing worth any mention and the bite had pretty much shut down so we shot back to fitzroy to plot a course into the Lagoon for later in the night.
We headed out east again for the arvo shift searched around for more new ground but got nothing but Hussar and a Maori Cod and it started to head in to where the boys in the other boat were in the shallows but we did no good but the boys on the other boat got some good RTE and were getting busted up on some bigger stuff and Paul got himself a nice Sweetlip of some sort.
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I'm not sure of the species it looked a little like a long nose and spangley cross, if anyone could shed some light it would be much appreciated? I've caught smaller ones that look like this one in the shallows but never seen one this size.
The next day we fished some ground on the way in and got a few RTE for the esky and got dusted by a few bigguns then the last drop for the day and i got hammered on a PE tackle hussar glow fly and dragged what i was hoping to be a Red but turned out to be a good Grassy.
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Headed for home in some pretty good conditions. Overall we did about 250+kms on the water, 1100kms on the road and about 600ltrs of fuel but got no Reds and no trout but got a good feed of RTE, Hussar, maori cod, wrasse, cracking pearly and a good grassy all caught in an awesome place so can't really complain.
Until next time cheers,
Leon.8-)
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Gave it a bit then moved towards Fitzy for a bit of shut eye then kicked off early and headed about 10kms out wide from Fitzy searched around for a bit but to no avail, the boys in the other boat stayed in a little closer and weren't doing any better, so we moved up right out east of One Tree picked up more hussar and a nice Black Spot Wrasse, still no Reds.
We decided to do a little searching around out on the 100mtr line but run over a good patch of fish in the 80-90mtrs so had a drop on then and i hooked up solid on a good fish that about half way up started fighting alot harder and thumping alot faster which, as i suspected suddenly got hit by an underwater freight train and the sharks one what we soon found out would've been a good pearly.
Still on the same drift and one of the other boys (Luke) hooked up just seconds after me and cranked the shit out of it to get it up before the grey coats moved in and busted the handle on his shimano TSS4 while winding but still managed to get to the surface a cracking pearly which came in at 63cm.
75508
We tried a few more drifts over the same spot but the current played a bit of havoc on us so we didn't pick up any more. The other boat fished around closer to Fitzroy but they didn't pick up anything sizable.
We did a stack more searching for ground but got nothing worth any mention and the bite had pretty much shut down so we shot back to fitzroy to plot a course into the Lagoon for later in the night.
We headed out east again for the arvo shift searched around for more new ground but got nothing but Hussar and a Maori Cod and it started to head in to where the boys in the other boat were in the shallows but we did no good but the boys on the other boat got some good RTE and were getting busted up on some bigger stuff and Paul got himself a nice Sweetlip of some sort.
75506
I'm not sure of the species it looked a little like a long nose and spangley cross, if anyone could shed some light it would be much appreciated? I've caught smaller ones that look like this one in the shallows but never seen one this size.
The next day we fished some ground on the way in and got a few RTE for the esky and got dusted by a few bigguns then the last drop for the day and i got hammered on a PE tackle hussar glow fly and dragged what i was hoping to be a Red but turned out to be a good Grassy.
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Headed for home in some pretty good conditions. Overall we did about 250+kms on the water, 1100kms on the road and about 600ltrs of fuel but got no Reds and no trout but got a good feed of RTE, Hussar, maori cod, wrasse, cracking pearly and a good grassy all caught in an awesome place so can't really complain.
Until next time cheers,
Leon.8-)
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