It was a dark and foggy morning (30/5/15), up at 3am to be at the father in-laws to head off down the gold coast for sun up out at the 35's.
First time offshore at the GC, a lot of traffic on the seaway even at 5 in the morning, meet up with a friend before crossing out into awesome conditions. As we both have not fished out there he was good enough to take us to a few of his marks, to start us of, plenty on the sounder but a pretty quiet start to the day.
Things picked up as the sun came up a bit higher, we were drifting, just bottom bashing and i gave one of the snapper flasher rigs a go for the first time, worked bloody well for me!
So i got a few firsts and a few PB's (nothing huge but still PB's), First Pearly & Kingy as well my biggest tusk fish at 43cm. All the keepers were caught on the flasher (also a double hook up on undersized pearlies rig bar the pearly (bait on circle).
All in all i took home a Kingy, Pearly, Squire and 2 tuskies (gifted to the skipper as he only caught 1 red gurnard?).
Nice trip, need to get a epirb so i can head out in my own machine.
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