"THE HARDS" FRIDAY MAY 5 SNAPPER FEST!!

[seapup]

FISHED THE HARDS YESTERDAY WITH MY MATE LACEY BLUE DOG(AUSFISH MEMBER) AND ANOTHER MATE SHANNON IN MY BOAT. #LEFT OUR BASE OF THE NOOSA RIVER AT 10AM. #LOADED UP ON YAKKAS ON WAY OUT AND THEN HEADED TO OUR MARK ON THE HARDS. #ANCHORED UP AROUND 1PM AND STARTED FISHING AND BURLEYING HARD. #FIRST FISH ABOARD WAS A PARROT FOLLOWED BY A 15KG AMBERJACK. #WE CAUGHT MAINLY PARROT THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. #AROUND 4:30PM THE FIRST SNAPPER CAME ABOARD, WEIGHING 5+KG. #THEN THE SNAPPER STARTED HITTING HARD FOR THE NEXT 3 HOURS.. WE CAUGHT 100+KG OF MIXED FISH BY 8PM AND HEADED IN. THE TALLY WAS:
25 X SNAPPER(THREW BACK 10 TO KEEP TO BAG LIMIT OF 15 FISH) - WEIGHT BETWEEN 1.5KG TO 5.5KG - AVERAGE OF 3KG.
2 X AMBERJACK
1 X MAHI MAHI
1 X SPOTTY MACKERAL(NEVER SEEN ONE ON THE HARDS - WAS A BLOW GETTING ONE THERE)!
2 X MOSES PERCH
12 X PARROT
3 X PEARL PERCH
3 X ROSY JOBFISH
1 X COBIA
3 X UNDERSIZE REDS

[seapup]

BEN WITH A HARDS SNAPPER :)

[seapup]

HARDS HAUL ;D

[seapup]

SUNSET

[seapup]

WE ALSO GOT ONE TRAG JEW AS WELL TO ADD TO THE TALLY.

[seapup]

WE HAD 2 OTHER MATES IN BOATS STAYED OUT ALL NIGHT AND ALSO LOADED UP ON SNAPPER(JUST SPOKE TO THEM NOW AS THEY CAME IN). WE COULD HAVE STAYED OUT THERE ALL NIGHT PULLING IN THE SNAPPER. ;D

[NeilD]

Great effort. Looks like the conditiond were pretty good

[TIM-DONSELAAR]

nice haul there fellas...Well Done [smiley=thumbsup.gif] [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

cheers tim :)

[agnes_jack]

Well done sea pup!!
that amberjack must have stretched the arms a bit mate!!! ;D
Good load of nice fish.

Regards, Tony

[Argle]

What a haul!! well done lads, shame you had to put up with such terrible conditions :D

Cheers and beers
Scott

[seapup]

Hi Tony,
The AJ was my first fish of the session and it gave me a good warm up for what was to come with Snapper biting furiously just before dark!!
Thanks,
Ben. ;D

[kiljora]

Well Done Sea Pup....

I'd have to say you cleaned up...

Awesome effort...

Cheers Tony

[reef_king]

nice fish , well done ;D

[Snap]

Hi Seapup,
The Boat was winched up today off the tyres after some trailer maintenance over the last 2 weekends.
Looking forward to next weekend.
I know the Hards are nth of the banks & I have been keen to get out there.
Where does the hards start & finish GPS marks, not after your marks just the area & I find the spots. The area is not marked on my Suncoast map.
I would appreciate any info & would go out of Mooloolaba.

[Big_Ren]

Good stuff Ben and a great AJ. The snaps must be biting their heads off out there.

Cheers
Paul ;)

[elephrez1]

arsome stuff, great catch.

[-spiro-]

a huge ar@s esky and feed hey...well done

[SeaSaw]

Nice catch there Seapup :o We were around the southern hards area.

Cheers,

Mark

[seapup]

Hi Mark,
We were fishing the middle area of the Hard on friday. Sounds like they were chewing their heads off along the whole of the Hards! I had mates up the top of the Hard cleaning up as well. When you heading out there next?
Cheers,
Ben. ;)

[outsiderskip]

nice catch there ben
we were out there to
conditions were great

cheers pete

[SeaSaw]

When you heading out there next?

I'll probably be up that way next time we have a good forecast. Its a long way to go if the weather is cr@p.

Cheers,

Mark

[Fixation]

Nice haul guys. Great shots. Looks like your right for snapper fillets for a while.

Cheers.

[seapup]

Hi Mark,
I will be out there next good weather as well(hopefully soon!! ;D). What is your call sign - Sea Saw?
Thanks,
Ben.

[seapup]

Hi Pete,
What part of the H :)ard were you fishing on friday?

[Nobites]

Hi Seapup
Some goddam nice fish there. We are planning to go to the hards next trip (hopefully this weekend coming weather permitting), just gotta workout where it is, ive been told it is an extension of the banks to the north does that sound right?