FIRST BLOOD FOR NEW RIG !

[rakinray]

G/ day all thought i would take the new boat out for her maiden offshore trip today, so decided to stay in close and work around the rock group off straddie. Headed out around 6 am from raby and bumped into the bay guru (WEBBY) up the glassed out Rainbow channell (see pic) crossed a very calm South Passage (Amity channell) and headed for the group. Put out some skirts and hard bodys and headed N/ East, wasnt feeling very confident with no run and no baitfish to be seen, so a quick trip to some good ground near boat rock produced a fish every drop but all were 30 to 33 cm squire so all were returned to grow some more. We then decided to have another crack at the toothy critters and headed back to the area we had tried earlier, and to our surprise the bait was on the move and it had things jumpin (fish and birds ) first pass was a double hook up of 4+ kilo macks that found there way to the bait bin, second pass we spotted a good size black going off about 100 mts from our set so i headed that way and then within 10 seconds the skirt goes off at a scary rate of knots and im on! It wasnt the black but a o/size Whoo that hit the bin as well. Got another couple of good size macks for the bait box and had two more big strikes for nil result. All in all a top day for the first run and mabye next time that black will come to the party !

CHEERS RAY :) Pics to follow. Webbys back yard !

[rakinray]

Deckie Dan with next trips bait !

[rakinray]

Me and the 20 kilo whoo !

[rakinray]

One more at the ramp !

[StevenM]

Good work Ray,

nothing like brakin in the new rig with speedies

cheers

Steven

[snappa]

great fun on LINE..... ;D ;D

[TIM-DONSELAAR]

nice wahoo Ray....Well Done #[smiley=thumbsup.gif] [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

cheers tim #:D

[outsiderskip]

hi ray
nice hoo and good pics

cheers pete

[HAZ]

Hi Ray,
Good to see you got my old rig out and caught some good fish. I hope the old girl serves you well. I look forward to more pics of future trips in her.
HAZ.

[Sandman]

Well done Ray few words to be said , still looking for mi :'(ne

[reeldreamer]

Nice wahoo surprised me that it went 20kgs considering some of the ones i have seen on here, you must make it look easy to handle a fish of that size :P

[webby]

New i should have found some more fuel somewhere and tagged along.
Not much happened after you left so went home.
Nice catch mate.
regards

[rakinray]

G/ day all thanks for the kind regards and yes Brian you should of come out, the passage was flat as and there seemed to be a few whoos around looks like an easter toothy trip id say !

CHEERS RAY :)

[Big_Ren]

Better luck with with blacks next time Ray. Nice hoo as bycatch anyway. The water colour looked pretty good?

Cheers
Paul :)

[allniter]

Onya Raymond !!!
Whatdya need that "strap - on" for ? :-* :-*
gettin old mate ? ;D
regards darren