Nice bycatch, but no bills

[Spaniard_King]

Roderick,

ya gotta get the palmy attitude >:(

My favorite phrase is "matye if I can hit ya in the head with me lure are you too close :o " That normally gets em to moove although I have been tested on this and when the lure goes sailin over there heads..they don't stay long ;D

Garry

[Franco]

Ya just gotta get in there early lads ...... I've booked my spot in for next Xmas so just check at reception before you anchor up!! [smiley=furious2.gif] [smiley=lolk.gif]

I swear I hate it there at this time of year ... WalleyWorld! #It looks like this:
[smiley=laola.gif] [smiley=laola.gif] [smiley=laola.gif] [smiley=laola.gif] [smiley=laola.gif] [smiley=laola.gif] [smiley=laola.gif] [smiley=laola.gif] [smiley=argue.gif] [smiley=argue.gif] [smiley=argue.gif] [smiley=furious2.gif] [smiley=furious2.gif] [smiley=furious.gif] [smiley=argue.gif] [smiley=argue.gif] [smiley=devil.gif] [smiley=devilish.gif] [smiley=devil.gif] [smiley=devilish.gif] [smiley=angryfire.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=jester.gif] [smiley=jester.gif] [smiley=rifle.gif] [smiley=rifle.gif] [smiley=whip.gif] [smiley=wink.gif] [smiley=huh.gif]

[gavsgonefishing]

I was trolling a bit wider from coolum to chardons and back again yesterday, the water was nice, onlly action was a billy early in the day, which jumped off after a couple of runs. There was a little bait out from coolum, but apart from taht was dead, its amazing how it can change in one day.

Plan to do the same thing tomorrow and fri

[finding_time]

Left mooloolabah at 3.00am for an early morning float bait session at my favorite close in spot x then after about 6 am the plan was to troll for some marlin. Thinks didn't start well when i arrived at spot x only to find it was someone elses spot x as well >:( Plan B go to spot y, yes this was being occupied as well. Are there any secret spot left ? After wasting about 2 hours at spot Z ( its never been one of my favorites) for little result we pulled the pin and started trolling out towards chardons reef. There were bait balls a plenty in this area and we were feeling very confident of a good day, one bait school in particular was very large and occupied the entire water column bar the top 8m we worked this particular ball with both lures and livies for about 2 1/2 hours for plenty of Mactuna, small cobia and one large nobby which fantastic was not what we were there for. The wind started to push fairly hard from the NE about midday so stumps were pulled and home we went our resolve further stiffened for the next trip ,its going to happen soon

Ian

Hard to complain about a 9.12 kg as bycatch on a livie!! ;)

[Spaniard_King]

Geez Ian, some people would be pleased to fish just for your bycatch ;D

Still a few spots at Palmy (150 boats yesterday ::) ) also trolled the 36s for 2 strikes both dollies..only boated 1

cheers

Garry

[620sf]

Have to be happy with that result Ian, probably one of the last things you think you would pull out of a bait ball.

Luke

[outsiderskip]

nice snapper ian
no fishing at secret spots on holidays
to many followers


cheers pete

[fishin_till_late]

150 boats at pamly? I was out the, tries counting them but lost count, farout i knew there were a few boats there but not that many!!!!!

[bazzaman]

Thats a deadset joke 150 boats and its only gunna get worse!

Thank god i live in NQ! Never see that many boats at the boat ramp!

Shane

[flickflack]

Ian

Thats a top fish there mate , makes the day worthwhile.

Yup those boats at palmy are a complete joke, park anywhere anytime. Dont go near them ,its very bad for your health

[gavsgonefishing]

No Abu and Flatline were working chardons area, I was wider, in Slack Attack a little markham cat

[Zucchini_bros]

Nice by catch Ian,
I would be pleased to have that for show and tell.
Well done

Cheers
Andrew

[GBC]

Starting to form a pretty strong opinion here - slow trolling is NOT for marlin, Patternosters rule. 4 out of 4 can't be wrong.. ;D ;D ;D

[finding_time]

Gav

I might have seen you out there is your boat called ABU or something like that, i was by myself in the southwind.

It was amazing the differance between the 2 days i'll be there again on friday hopefully

Ian

[3Vs]

Ya just gotta get in there early lads ...... I've booked my spot in for next Xmas so just check at reception before you anchor up!! [smiley=furious2.gif] [smiley=lolk.gif]

I swear I hate it there at this time of year ... WalleyWorld! #It looks like this:
[smiley=laola.gif] [smiley=laola.gif] [smiley=laola.gif] [smiley=laola.gif] [smiley=laola.gif] [smiley=laola.gif] [smiley=laola.gif] [smiley=laola.gif] [smiley=argue.gif] [smiley=argue.gif] [smiley=argue.gif] [smiley=furious2.gif] [smiley=furious2.gif] [smiley=furious.gif] [smiley=argue.gif] [smiley=argue.gif] [smiley=devil.gif] [smiley=devilish.gif] [smiley=devil.gif] [smiley=devilish.gif] [smiley=angryfire.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] [smiley=jester.gif] [smiley=jester.gif] [smiley=rifle.gif] [smiley=rifle.gif] [smiley=whip.gif] [smiley=wink.gif] [smiley=huh.gif]

Which one is Garry?

[the_bomber]

GBC
4 out of 4?
You, Rob K and Finding Time = 3??

Has Lively Lure done it too?

[Always_offshore]

headed out wed morning,fished wide caloundra wind was about 15-20 knots NE,caught a couple mahi- mahi,nothing showing on the sounder,had a great day on the water with a couple of great blokes,sorry no pics as i forgot my camera,might have another bash fri or mon. ;D;-----------cheers till next time. ;D ;D ;D

[magicpudding]

We also headed out there wednesday. Had a shot from a really good sized black and dropped another one boatside at the 8 mile off Mooloolaba. Also managed to pickup some dollies for a feed. There was some awesome bait around the usual haunts, but we couldn't pull any fish off them.

CJ

[GBC]

Bomber,

Merry xmas and HNY maaaate,

If memory serves me I believe it is finding time X 2.

C.J.
;D ;D

Hands up who's caught marlin on unorthodox rigs

[the_bomber]

Thanks GBC

Right back at ya.

How are you handling the heat? I bet the wife and young one are looking forward to that pool you are apparently doing. ;)

I took the wife and kids to Tangalooma yesterday.Brownies galore, no where near as buggered and the same results as fishing in these northerlies. Whats more I saved $$ on fuel.

Bring on the southerly change some time soon.

[Smithy]

Sorry to hijack this but bycatch whilst livebaiting for Bills isn't unusual. #Most days livebaiting we end up with a bit of a feed from the Squire, Pearlies and Parrot we catch on the Sabiki rigs then there are the Pearlies and Snapper etc. you catch on the liveys. #Here are a couple of Snapper we got on circle hooks livebaiting during a Tournament.

[Smithy]

And a couple of Wahoo on circle hooks on liveys from the same day. We were amazed by that as well. Pity we didn't stay connected to the two Blacks we had on as well as it would have been an awesome day and we would have been near the top of scoreboard.

[Smithy]

Pearly from the 21mile.

[Smithy]

Quite a few of these Cod from the close inshore Marlin grounds with a bit of gravel off the Sunny Coast.

[Smithy]

And on and on but Grassys are always a welcome bonus.

[finding_time]

Hi-jack away Smithy it,s nice to get a bit of esky filling in on a marlin trip!!! What GBC and the Bomber are refering to is the fact that all three of us have been on reef fishing trips and have caught marlin on the old Paternoster rigs it must be a fairly common occurance.

Ian