blue_rogue
04-07-2006, 05:17 PM
Haven't put a post up for a while, but sure have been watching the boys on the sit posting theirs. Some good fish getting caught. I have been shying away from the Gold Coast of late rather fishing the productive waters of the Hards and Barwon Banks. So with time a problem this weekend I ventured of the Gold Coast.
Went out on Saturday with JB thinking the weather was going to be brilliant. How wrong the forecast was. We went north and fished off the Pin Bar though the 20kt + westerly made that pretty hard. We went back home through the Pin and called it an early day.
Waking up Sunday was a totally different story. Not a drop of wind. I couldn't help myself and after not being able to get a crew went out solo at lunch time. I then met up with JB and Dane on the reefs.
We found some good bait of the bottom end of Mermaid beach and some great ground also, though could loose a bait when we sent them down. It was a slow afternoon, though just on dark the fish came on the bite. For the next hour I managed quite a few fish. At one stage I had three rods going off and managed to land all of them solo. Biggest fish went 5kg and the rest were a couple of kilo each. Bagged out on snapper.
The tailor came on the chew and mauled all the rigs, so it was then time to call it a night. JB and Dano got a terrible hiding from the tailor as well.
Flew home to the seaway doing 30kts, with glassed out conditions. Good afternoon.
Went out on Saturday with JB thinking the weather was going to be brilliant. How wrong the forecast was. We went north and fished off the Pin Bar though the 20kt + westerly made that pretty hard. We went back home through the Pin and called it an early day.
Waking up Sunday was a totally different story. Not a drop of wind. I couldn't help myself and after not being able to get a crew went out solo at lunch time. I then met up with JB and Dane on the reefs.
We found some good bait of the bottom end of Mermaid beach and some great ground also, though could loose a bait when we sent them down. It was a slow afternoon, though just on dark the fish came on the bite. For the next hour I managed quite a few fish. At one stage I had three rods going off and managed to land all of them solo. Biggest fish went 5kg and the rest were a couple of kilo each. Bagged out on snapper.
The tailor came on the chew and mauled all the rigs, so it was then time to call it a night. JB and Dano got a terrible hiding from the tailor as well.
Flew home to the seaway doing 30kts, with glassed out conditions. Good afternoon.