TREVELLY
12-03-2012, 09:03 AM
The mission should you choose to accept it is to break Womp's drought.
http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/showthread.php?182585-In-need-of-some-local-help-to-break-my-drought.
Well this thread is more about what we tried and saw - rather than exceptional results and pics of huge fish :)
First out to Gneerings at 5.30am water temp 25.5 deg - it was calm trolled for a short while did not see huge numbers of baitfish on sounder but did see two to three dozen boats trolling so figured here was a remote lottery.
Headed South to Caloundra went across some reef worth prospecting about 300m from a boat drifting the same reef. Did one drift then the only other boat seen on the horizon comes flying in, sits off to one side a hundred metres away watching, sees a couple of small fish caught, then when I start my second drift he pulls in 30m behind me to follow the exact same drift :-? - peanut! Blue fibreglass boat with two dad's and two young teenage boys - wasn't worth the agro so left them to it.
Went South to 12mile and trolled baitfish for a while on surface and with downrigger - no joy.
Prospected the desert ground off Caloundra and caught some fish that look like Sergeant Baker, Mother in Law fish - what ever but had teeth like deep sea monsters - every time we got one they trashed the trace - I think the best name we gave them was "turds with teeth" "TWT" - anyone know what they are - mongrels were almost every place we fished.
We looked about found a decent bait school - trolled it for a while then drifted through it and Womp (David) caught some cod
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We got some livies, slimies and yakkas and went wide to the 60m line after trying a few spots along the way.
At the 60m line the water temp was 27.9deg - there were current lines and it looked good - wished I have gotten there earlier to troll it. No matter we dropped some livies down and bait down missed a few good hits on the livies.
Went inshore a bit to cobia wreck hoping for some real action on the livies - as the sounder lit up when we got there. Five or six livebaits later a couple of reasonable hits missed but a couple of TWT landed and the sun set, so we moved towards Caloundra 12 mile, drifted the last few livies for only one good hit missed then bait fished there and Murphies for a few hours then went in.
Did some respectable miles and was surprised so see no birds working any schools of feeding fish all day. It was calm and we only saw a very short burst of feeding fish once - over with in minutes.
How did you guys go?
Was anything caught at Gneerings trolling? Looked busy with boats yet quiet with fish when we were there.
We were treated with some nice weather - unusual for my trips. Next time I strike weather like this on a weekend I will go wide.
Well we broke Womps drought - wouldn't say it was a floodgate opening, but a start.
Oh and I got a new hat - reckon it looks good alongside the little tuskie ;D
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http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/showthread.php?182585-In-need-of-some-local-help-to-break-my-drought.
Well this thread is more about what we tried and saw - rather than exceptional results and pics of huge fish :)
First out to Gneerings at 5.30am water temp 25.5 deg - it was calm trolled for a short while did not see huge numbers of baitfish on sounder but did see two to three dozen boats trolling so figured here was a remote lottery.
Headed South to Caloundra went across some reef worth prospecting about 300m from a boat drifting the same reef. Did one drift then the only other boat seen on the horizon comes flying in, sits off to one side a hundred metres away watching, sees a couple of small fish caught, then when I start my second drift he pulls in 30m behind me to follow the exact same drift :-? - peanut! Blue fibreglass boat with two dad's and two young teenage boys - wasn't worth the agro so left them to it.
Went South to 12mile and trolled baitfish for a while on surface and with downrigger - no joy.
Prospected the desert ground off Caloundra and caught some fish that look like Sergeant Baker, Mother in Law fish - what ever but had teeth like deep sea monsters - every time we got one they trashed the trace - I think the best name we gave them was "turds with teeth" "TWT" - anyone know what they are - mongrels were almost every place we fished.
We looked about found a decent bait school - trolled it for a while then drifted through it and Womp (David) caught some cod
77948
We got some livies, slimies and yakkas and went wide to the 60m line after trying a few spots along the way.
At the 60m line the water temp was 27.9deg - there were current lines and it looked good - wished I have gotten there earlier to troll it. No matter we dropped some livies down and bait down missed a few good hits on the livies.
Went inshore a bit to cobia wreck hoping for some real action on the livies - as the sounder lit up when we got there. Five or six livebaits later a couple of reasonable hits missed but a couple of TWT landed and the sun set, so we moved towards Caloundra 12 mile, drifted the last few livies for only one good hit missed then bait fished there and Murphies for a few hours then went in.
Did some respectable miles and was surprised so see no birds working any schools of feeding fish all day. It was calm and we only saw a very short burst of feeding fish once - over with in minutes.
How did you guys go?
Was anything caught at Gneerings trolling? Looked busy with boats yet quiet with fish when we were there.
We were treated with some nice weather - unusual for my trips. Next time I strike weather like this on a weekend I will go wide.
Well we broke Womps drought - wouldn't say it was a floodgate opening, but a start.
Oh and I got a new hat - reckon it looks good alongside the little tuskie ;D
7794977951