Floating Rib
13-05-2012, 12:56 PM
Hi Mick thanks for your report
I fished the closer NE reefs in 150ft for the whole morning, released a few undersize squire and tons of undersize trag, current was moving but the strong westerley early was the main difficulty factor in holding bottom, once it dropped off it was much easier. Nice shows of fish on the sounder but finished with my bag of Trag and a few big sand flathead (wish i could get more of these) and 1 solid parrot.
I used squid and fresh caught tailor for bait, also squid strip on a flasher rig(caught squire and trag on this), fed whole squid on lighter weight to try some more mid water areas in the hope of squire(not a touch) jigged an octo jig(zilch),
My intention was to fish wide but the wind and amount of drift put me off.
Met a fellow Ausfisher, Catnap i believe in a nice white cat with twin yammies, they had caught quite a few just under pearlies unfortunately, nice to finally meet someone out on the water.
Agree with mick on the bar changes, still had about 10 feet and i went out at 7.30 on the dead low, if anyone was interested i could provide a couple of co-ordinates to give you the track through, bearing in mind the bar changes and i reckon if you havent been through for a while pick a day where you can see the channel.
One thing i find sad is the waste when catching Trag, the buggers dont tend to survive when released and after a charter moved away from me yesterday the ocean was full of bobbing trag, the charter guys have done the right thing by releasing and of course something will eat them, nearly all were around the 35cm(38 legal) mark i caught and released.
Cheers
Rib
I fished the closer NE reefs in 150ft for the whole morning, released a few undersize squire and tons of undersize trag, current was moving but the strong westerley early was the main difficulty factor in holding bottom, once it dropped off it was much easier. Nice shows of fish on the sounder but finished with my bag of Trag and a few big sand flathead (wish i could get more of these) and 1 solid parrot.
I used squid and fresh caught tailor for bait, also squid strip on a flasher rig(caught squire and trag on this), fed whole squid on lighter weight to try some more mid water areas in the hope of squire(not a touch) jigged an octo jig(zilch),
My intention was to fish wide but the wind and amount of drift put me off.
Met a fellow Ausfisher, Catnap i believe in a nice white cat with twin yammies, they had caught quite a few just under pearlies unfortunately, nice to finally meet someone out on the water.
Agree with mick on the bar changes, still had about 10 feet and i went out at 7.30 on the dead low, if anyone was interested i could provide a couple of co-ordinates to give you the track through, bearing in mind the bar changes and i reckon if you havent been through for a while pick a day where you can see the channel.
One thing i find sad is the waste when catching Trag, the buggers dont tend to survive when released and after a charter moved away from me yesterday the ocean was full of bobbing trag, the charter guys have done the right thing by releasing and of course something will eat them, nearly all were around the 35cm(38 legal) mark i caught and released.
Cheers
Rib