bidkev
20-08-2006, 10:22 AM
Firstly, I'd like to thank Foxy for taking the time to recently pm with info on techniques for fishing offshore. Armed with this new found knowledge, and a very busy last week, I disciplined myself ;D to stay off ausfish for a week and with what spare time I had, prepare myeself for an offshore exped. I spent hours on the furuno so that I could operate it without constantly referring to the manual and also spent hours making up tackle so that it was to hand when those big buggers bricked me ;D berley was minced in my wife's new mincer ;D and cubes pre-cut to save time at sea.
Left Nudgee at 6am knowing full well that I had missed the best of it, and picked my way through the fog till safely outside the narrowng channel.........very eerie! :-/ :o
Uneventful run on smooth waters till we hit the cape an hour later :o :o It was like a washing machine ::) :o and I very nearly turned round wondering if it was the same outside. Rigs plodding no less than 100 metres in front of us were lost to view in a swell the size of which I'd never encountered before and I dropped down to 8 knotts. By the time we rounded the cape to flatter seas all the kids were either throwing up or on the verge of it.........the deckie was also a lovely shade of green ;D Nice to have found a bit more confidence in the rig and to have gained a bit of knowledge of handling her.
Hit spot X and attempted to drift but no go. Minimum of 12 ozs of lead needed and more on the heavier tackle/line when we anchored up.
Got into the squire almost immediately nearly all around the 32 to 40 mark..... decided to return these in the hopes of something bigger but the pickers put an end to that ::) Couldn't keep a bait on the bigger tackle and had to abandon the pilles in favour of squid strip, but even this was got at.
Couldn't find any livies either so had rigged up the big guns with dead pike which I lowered to just above the kelp. Throughout the next 3 hours these were hit 3 times one doing a scorching run of about 100 metres before it bricked me in the kelp.......waiting 10 minutes in the hope that whetever it was would come out was to no avail and trying to break off 70lb braid in a rocking boat was a fair experieence :o ;D
I was fishing alone by this time as all the crew were crook (unusual for them) and the bites were that fast I was down to fishing just one rod. The bigger squire never eventuated though and I was kicking myself for returning the previous bigger ones.
Decided to move for the last couple of hours to a patch that had produced a nice feed of goldies consistently in the past and accordinlgy downgraded the size of my hooks and bait. Was kept just as busy at this spot with a large range of small reefies and near on (at a guess) 50 or so keepable tarwhine but kept only enough for a feed. This spot also produced a run on the heavy gear with the pike bait that pulled so hard that I couldn't get the rod out of the holder..........took about 200 metres of line before dropping the bait :'(
That's it folks.......didn't pan out as I hoped but we got a feed and JJ pulled a beautiful tarwhine that went 36 cms.
kev
Left Nudgee at 6am knowing full well that I had missed the best of it, and picked my way through the fog till safely outside the narrowng channel.........very eerie! :-/ :o
Uneventful run on smooth waters till we hit the cape an hour later :o :o It was like a washing machine ::) :o and I very nearly turned round wondering if it was the same outside. Rigs plodding no less than 100 metres in front of us were lost to view in a swell the size of which I'd never encountered before and I dropped down to 8 knotts. By the time we rounded the cape to flatter seas all the kids were either throwing up or on the verge of it.........the deckie was also a lovely shade of green ;D Nice to have found a bit more confidence in the rig and to have gained a bit of knowledge of handling her.
Hit spot X and attempted to drift but no go. Minimum of 12 ozs of lead needed and more on the heavier tackle/line when we anchored up.
Got into the squire almost immediately nearly all around the 32 to 40 mark..... decided to return these in the hopes of something bigger but the pickers put an end to that ::) Couldn't keep a bait on the bigger tackle and had to abandon the pilles in favour of squid strip, but even this was got at.
Couldn't find any livies either so had rigged up the big guns with dead pike which I lowered to just above the kelp. Throughout the next 3 hours these were hit 3 times one doing a scorching run of about 100 metres before it bricked me in the kelp.......waiting 10 minutes in the hope that whetever it was would come out was to no avail and trying to break off 70lb braid in a rocking boat was a fair experieence :o ;D
I was fishing alone by this time as all the crew were crook (unusual for them) and the bites were that fast I was down to fishing just one rod. The bigger squire never eventuated though and I was kicking myself for returning the previous bigger ones.
Decided to move for the last couple of hours to a patch that had produced a nice feed of goldies consistently in the past and accordinlgy downgraded the size of my hooks and bait. Was kept just as busy at this spot with a large range of small reefies and near on (at a guess) 50 or so keepable tarwhine but kept only enough for a feed. This spot also produced a run on the heavy gear with the pike bait that pulled so hard that I couldn't get the rod out of the holder..........took about 200 metres of line before dropping the bait :'(
That's it folks.......didn't pan out as I hoped but we got a feed and JJ pulled a beautiful tarwhine that went 36 cms.
kev