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Nobites
20-08-2006, 02:46 PM
Finally decided to take a run out to the hards yesterday. Left Mooloolabah around 1:00pm arrived at our first spot and anchored up around 2:45. Run out was excellent, semi-glassed out with a few nice swells I used to practice some launching
Anyway berley went down half an hour later the mates young bloke pulls the first fish in. A legal parrot, I think we could of ended the trip right their and he would of been happy.

Slow action so we decided to move closer to the pinnacles we were trying to pull fish off as their was very little current and no wind. Just before dusk things started to look better, snapper ranging from 3-5 kg started coming aboard, they weren't massive but still enough to make the young fella grunt and groan. The action was definately slower than our last trip out but we still had a hell of a lot of fun.

Wind picked up to about 14 knots so we decided to pull the pin at around 8:50pm for a 2hr 30 min run home.

No seasickness from me or the young fella. Kwels, ginger tablets and mints did the trick.

Pics tell the story.

Anyone have an approx mark for top end of the hards as I dont know if i fished northern mid or southern part?

I just want to say thanks to seapup for helping me out with the finer points of anchoring and giving me some idea of where the hards are

I also want to thank Foggy for his info on plastics and right times to fish.

There is alot of helpful people on these chat boards and I hope this gives something back.


Final count
11 snapper
2 pearlies
2 parrot

Cant wait for next time

Nobites
20-08-2006, 02:47 PM
The young fells

Nobites
20-08-2006, 02:47 PM
Me

Nobites
20-08-2006, 02:47 PM
The catch

outsiderskip
20-08-2006, 03:05 PM
hi nobites
nice catchbit of cleaning to be done
then a good feed


cheers pete

seapup
20-08-2006, 03:13 PM
Hi Kristaian,
Nice catch mate well done! Stokded the anchoring tips helped you out! I am heading out there tomorrow or tuesday.
Ben. :)

chicken
20-08-2006, 05:52 PM
Nice feed good chewing

esselte
20-08-2006, 05:53 PM
Great catch mate :)

StevenM
20-08-2006, 07:02 PM
Love it and good to see smiles all round

no_fish
20-08-2006, 07:24 PM
beautiful work guys uz have a good feed der ;)

SeaSaw
20-08-2006, 09:29 PM
Nice effort. :) Good to see it all come together and teh young fella getting a few :)

If you got out there in 1 & 3/4 hours then you were probably fishing the area I would call about 1/2 way up the hards.

Cheers,

Mark

reef_king
20-08-2006, 09:43 PM
Nice feed of snappers, what was the current like?

ty

Big_Ren
20-08-2006, 10:06 PM
Nice catch Nobites. Glad to see some of the tips came to fruition. You got a good feed there. Look forward to hearing some more of your reports.

Cheers
Paul

Nobites
20-08-2006, 11:45 PM
Reefking
Current when we arrived was almost zero. Picked up a bit in the afternoon but what was easily fishable.
When the wind picked up a bit it made it a little hard as boat ended up being 90 degrees to the current direction so all lines went out one side of the boat

Smailesy
21-08-2006, 08:25 AM
great feed great catch

Murks
23-08-2006, 03:33 PM
ya should have finished filleting ny now so i hope you enjoy the haul.....nobites hey, i think you need to consider a name change mate..something like ...SH!TLOADS OF BITES

Nobites
24-08-2006, 06:54 AM
Hi Murks
Yeah. Nick was supposed to mean no bites just fish. Finally came to fruition. ;)

Nobites