SeaSaw
30-10-2005, 05:55 PM
It was tempting not to put up a report, but why just post the good ones. :-[
We headed out to the northern end of Barwon Banks Late on Friday night with the plan to fish until about lunchtime on Saturday (needed to be back to go to a party Saturday night) It was a bit of a slow trip out due to the swell standing up a bit but once out it was a great day.
Crew for the day was Johno and Daniel (Caloundra). We also were travelling with John & Dave (bigcods) in their Explorer 625. It was good to meet a few more Ausfishers, even if the fishing was ordinary (understatement) :(
Well We tried almost everything, but the fish just were not biting. We fished some good pinacles north of the Banks at first, but they produced only a couple of undersized reds and pearlies. We then headed out deep to the 90m area and picked up 4 pearlies and a couple of squire, before that shutdown completely. Then headed into the 55m area on the northern end of Banks and not even a bite. Did a troll down to the moddle of the Banks without a strike. Fished the 55m 45m and 35m areas and hardly got a bite ..... even the iodone bream weren't biting and there were some huge shows on the sounder. There was not trouble finding good shows of fish but they just wouldn't take a bait. :( :( 8-)
With Only 6 fish for the trip I have just gone back through my fishing records back to January 2000 to see if we had ever done worse out at the Banks. (I didn't keep records before 2000) The three worst trips were 5 fish (between 2 people) in Feb 2002, 6 fish (between 2) in June 2002, and this trip 6 fish (between 3). Depending how you look at it this was my worst ever trip at 2 per person, or equal second worst in numbers. We all have bad days ;D
Well now I have a good reason to fish again next weekend in the Sunshine Coast fishing comp ;) as this trip won't make much of a B&B article ;D.
It was good to meet you Daniel and Dave. I hope we have better luck next time out.
Cheers,
Mark
We headed out to the northern end of Barwon Banks Late on Friday night with the plan to fish until about lunchtime on Saturday (needed to be back to go to a party Saturday night) It was a bit of a slow trip out due to the swell standing up a bit but once out it was a great day.
Crew for the day was Johno and Daniel (Caloundra). We also were travelling with John & Dave (bigcods) in their Explorer 625. It was good to meet a few more Ausfishers, even if the fishing was ordinary (understatement) :(
Well We tried almost everything, but the fish just were not biting. We fished some good pinacles north of the Banks at first, but they produced only a couple of undersized reds and pearlies. We then headed out deep to the 90m area and picked up 4 pearlies and a couple of squire, before that shutdown completely. Then headed into the 55m area on the northern end of Banks and not even a bite. Did a troll down to the moddle of the Banks without a strike. Fished the 55m 45m and 35m areas and hardly got a bite ..... even the iodone bream weren't biting and there were some huge shows on the sounder. There was not trouble finding good shows of fish but they just wouldn't take a bait. :( :( 8-)
With Only 6 fish for the trip I have just gone back through my fishing records back to January 2000 to see if we had ever done worse out at the Banks. (I didn't keep records before 2000) The three worst trips were 5 fish (between 2 people) in Feb 2002, 6 fish (between 2) in June 2002, and this trip 6 fish (between 3). Depending how you look at it this was my worst ever trip at 2 per person, or equal second worst in numbers. We all have bad days ;D
Well now I have a good reason to fish again next weekend in the Sunshine Coast fishing comp ;) as this trip won't make much of a B&B article ;D.
It was good to meet you Daniel and Dave. I hope we have better luck next time out.
Cheers,
Mark