Beasts from the deep

[reef_king]

Couldn't get work off fri so plan was to leave fri arvo.After a late start which was further enhanced by a bearing blowing off and the wheel 10m from popping off as we backed into a mechanics yard(much thanks goes to graham the mechanic)It didn't look good for the weekend.Anywho got to the fishing grounds about 1am sat morning in beautiful condtions to pull a lone snapper at 5.5kg and a few moses perch and hussar.Fishing was slow but consistent with a few good trout, parrot and reds as well as some nice red throat and a lone spangled coming aboard in between the losses of the big ones >:

Headed to an area further north that I call shark shoal that consitently holds big reds and even bigger sharks.After 30mins of mayhem and some good fish landed but no big reds, the winch was firing with solid reds getting taken real close to the boat.


.Searched alot around before sundown for a show with no sharks holding above,or around it but still a good show of reds and I hit pay dirt.First drop resulted in a 8kg red and pulled hook.2nd and 3 very solid hookups are acheived a 7kg red came up with a 8-10foot whaler circling it but not having any go's at it, so with 2 other very good fish still to come we threw over 4-5 fish over the back to intice it away.....This worked and I got a 15kg red to the surface just as it came back for the red on the deck winch which made mine look like sperm(in all honesty a 20kg+red) Damo gave this fish heaps but snapped the 200pd leader 5seconds frow the net >:

. Anchored right on top but couldn't hold bottom with 3pds of lead. Uped anchor,got 2 more drifts in including another 13.2kg beast, but the current had picked up to 2-3knots to the south on the drift into a 10knt S.E and was near impossible to fish, so headed in out of the current for some rest. Next morning Damo got his best red at 9kg before heading in early and sounding for new ground along the way, with slow fishing and only picking up a 12.6kg cobe and an Aj as well as some parrot and hussar which were thrown back with many others as All esky's were full.

Ty

[reef_king]

Nathans P.B maroi at over 5kilo

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Johnos first ever spangled

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Damo's P.B red....he bagged out on these

[reef_king]

some colour

[reef_king]

Johno's P.B red

[reef_king]

Johno's best cobe to date

[reef_king]

My best of the trip

[reef_king]

group mugshot

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solid "black lip" over 13 kilo

[reef_king]

Damo's first AJ

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last one

[-spiro-]

Man my eyeballs are stuck to the screen fella's :o :o :obrilliant catch

[Big_unit]

Stonka report.

Thats Gold [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

Cheers
James

[SeaSaw]

Theres more red in that photo than any other colour :o Great catch and top report.

Cheers,

Mark

[indy]

No too ways about it you are the king very very jealeous

[outsiderskip]

wow
what can i say
im jealous
great fishing

pete

[browndog]

Love those reds, number one fish in the sea for me.

[backlash08]

Great report Ty - well done mate!! weather was good for it and you cleaned up again - I'm jealous

[Blackened]

G'day
Brilliant report ty, pity about the snapping of the 200lb leader. I'll be in touch
Dave

[revs57]

Well done Ty...good to see a great mixed bag,

and some lovely Red fish to boot

Thanks for the encouragement

Keeps us all going back

Cheers

Rhys

[StevenM]

Fantastic guys ;)

[Smailesy]

love those red

[Great_White]

What a great trip, looked so calm in the back ground :)

I see red, I see red, #top catch guys. ;D ;D ;D

Peter :)

[Fixation]

Hey Ty,
I was thinking of you guys out there on Saturday pulling reds when there was no wind. I was crying at home repairing the power winch. Very impressive catch mate. Love the “black lips” on the big guy. He is a corker. Great photos and an awesome report. ;)

[Big_Ren]

Wow.....Ty that's another great trip. Love all the red colour. The conditions look simply stunning.

Congrats.
Paul

[Anne-T-Dote]

Awesome Ty, simply awesome. they are some great reds and the tuskies are massive as well. Great Maori cod and some beaut coronation trout as well.

Did you get any other snapper other than the 5.5kg loner?

[Bundy_Burp]

Somebody get me some eye drops all I'm seeing is red doh looking to much at all those fish I think .
Excellent report and great pictures as well .
If your mission was to make us all jealous I am pretty sure you suceeded
Very well done

Bundy 8-)

[chicken]

AWESOME!!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D

[theoldlegend]

That's simply awesome guys!! ;D


TOL

[Fisher4life]

:oWhat a result!! Ty you really know how to find a good feed, congrat's guys, next time i'll have to get in earlier!!

They are some monster reds!

[Edmo]

yeah! good on ya ty \, I was thinkin of yas as i was sweatin it out at work on sat, wishin i was there with yas.
Oh well maybe next time, well done looks like great weather :)

[bballfisho]

thats unbelievable :o :o :o.
thats a huge amount of fish there, great
work

[reef_king]

Maccamania that was the only snap of the trip as i wasn't fishing for them.

Josh won't be heading out for a while,and next 2 trips are already full, but as soon as I have a spare seat U'll be the first I ring,

[Petenoosa]

Thats a serious box of fish boys....well done. :)

[Dogbream]

Dont know how you blokes manage to stay within the possesion limits, your freeze is probably still full from your previous trip...

dogbream

[lattic]

One of the better posts mate, well done, thats agreat catch all round

muz

[Deiter]

Well done Ty, Nath and crew. :)

2 ripper weekends in a row eh? Just make sure you guys don't burn yourselves out!!! ;D ;D ;D

Good to see you got a few bigguns past the noah's. I bet you were all spewin when the BIG boy dropped off the winch :-/. You been letting TTB tie the knots again?
oh well, there's always next weekend. ;)

Cheers,
Damo
P.s. i may have come up with a contraption you can put on your line to keep the toothies away from OUR fish. I'll Give you a yell when it's complete and get you to test it. Better still, i'll hang onto it and wait till I get to test it. :)

PPs. That Damo fella you had on board is nowhere near as good looking as the one you had last week! ;D ;D ;D.

[Riptide_23]

Damn good catch lads. Im thinking off Double Island? We went up there on the weekend for an overnighter no big reds though bummer.

[finding_time]

Nice mate!! ;)

pods on it's way home as i type ;) got to be better than chucking over fish 8-)

Good to see TBB made it into some photo's this week he didn't get in any last trip!

Ian

Was he still TBB this trip?

[Jim_Byrne]

What else can I say........ thats simply wicked!

Good on ya

Jim

[sempre]

Well done Reefking , love that red colour in the box .

[Murks]

i think i need to stop reading posts from this section....geez just to think i was happy with a few squire ::)

[reef_king]

Damo what kind of contraption? I'll test it for u and let u know how it go's ;D ;D Tbb's knot didn't fail it was extreme drag..big fish..Just snapped at probally a slightly weaker spot :'( :'(

Ian the pod+Damo's so called contraption(hope its better than his handle ;)) and what the hell a couple of sacrifical fish aswell, we might all get some bigguns.

P.S he was still TBB but didn't get called it once. This crew had more respect ;D
He did however manage to loose another sponge overboard the first night and could'nt recover it.

[finding_time]

RESPECT !!!I've got total respect for TBB , i've never seen anyone clean like him!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

He is very clumsy with the sponge though ;)

ian