Offshore Fraser

[3rd degree]

Had a crack at some fish off the Fraser Coast over the last few days.

Weather was not as forecast for first 2 days and was pretty rough, but came good yesterday.

Had our share of dramas with the anchor winch which died in 100m of water and eventually had to angle grind off anchor and a heap of chain.

Still managed to put together a few fish but missed out on a few species, with only 1 red and only a couple of jobbies. Got some cracker pearlies and a nice bar cod from the deeper water.

Big fog this morning made crossing the bar home a bit curly, could barely see 70m in front!

cheers
jim

[vertico]

Those Pearlies are enormous! Bloody good job mate!
sean

[cuzzamundi]

Awesome. Was there still a decent ground swell offshore? Was apparently still over a metre today up that way.

Cuzza

[gofishin]

Bloody good haul, nice boat too !
Cheers
Brendon


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[BLOOEY]

You earned the tennis elbow by the looks of that haul.

[Still_Dreamin]

Nice catch. Do you routinely carry an angle grinder in your boat?

[3rd degree]

Not my boat Still Dreamin it's a mates. Its 50ft so he's got shop full of tools downstairs.

[scottar]

Most anchor winches really are not meant to try and lift the weight of an anchor and 100 metres of chain vertically. No wonder the thing went on strike.

[drpete]

I was out there with three mates in a 38ft ex trawler last week for two days and we bagged out with 80 good reef fish between us. Steamed for twenty hours from Raby Bay and anchored at 5am on a bit of ground on the sounder (mate won't use GPS marks. Says if people already know em, they're probably already flogged). By 7am we had the first eight red emperor on board (two at over thirteen kilos). By the end of the day, we had thirteen total. Didn't go out deep enough for Pearls. Lots of RTEs, parrot, cod, Maori cod, BIG hussar etc.....