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Well done mate, sounds like a great trip.
How good are those tailors.
Max
Spent a week at moreton from the 10th till 17th of this month. Set up camp on the south eastern surf beach in an idyllic spot in the dunes overlooking a newly forming gutter.
The weather was too good to imagine with no wind glassed out ocean and very clean water. Days were spent fishing from early morning 2am in alot of cases, back to camp around 10am for a big feed of bacon eggs and tomato all cooked over the campfire. Then fishing again till whenever. Nights much the same around the fire with a glass or 3 of stones to send me off to sleep.
On the fishing front it was fairly good with some whopper tailor to 70cm on the first couple of early morning jaunts on mullet fillets.
Sharks were as thick as i have seen anywhere with their dark silhouettes easily seen just behind the shoredump in the calm clear conditions. Any fleshbait of livie piffed in front of them was eagerly scoffed. Landed them to around 6ft with a mate and solo on my surf rod spinfisher and 30lb line after some epic battles.
Dart were a dime a dozen with large schools surfing the waves. Some large ones 40+cm were there if you could pinpoint them. Freshly pulled worms were their undoing of which there were thousands. The occasional oddball fish came in too including a bonefish around 40cm and a remora.
Packed up camp on the tuesday. Pulled a few worms and caught large dart till i had to go to the western side to catch the barge. Pulled a few flattys close by untill i was forced to jump on.
Top little break and I WANNA GO BACK.
Well done mate, sounds like a great trip.
How good are those tailors.
Max
Bonefish...
awesome
Awesome. Thanks for taking the time to do a report
Well done mate. Sounds like you had a great time there.
Cracking tailor mate! Thanks for the report.
Great variety of fish & an excellent well written report. Thanks
Mick
Not all tools are usefull.
Nappies and politicians should be changed regularly for the same reason..
My pleasure doing the report although it made want to go back even more. The bone fish is the third in as many trips to Moreton plus a good size permit.
Ben
Fantastic effort. Moreton remains one of my favourite destinations.
Well done Blooey, nice tailor. It is great to read of trips like that but a bugger as well while you are at work. You are becoming a bit of a bonefish pro, didn't you also catch one or more at Sandy cape a while back?
Thanks chappie. I try to time my breaks out of school holidays for just that reason, everyone else is a work! Aaaah the solitude. It was my mate Damned 67 that got the 2 bonefish at sandy cape both monstrous things too. Couldn't believe my eyes when he dragged them in on a pillie and gang hooks.
Ben
what a corker of a trip. It never ceases to amaze me just how well the areas around the brissy, the bay and islands fish. (not discounting the effort put in - 2am starts is definitely committed! 😄😄. Seems the conditions really lined up - even weather. Was thinking a trip to Fraser might be on this year, but a little closer to home sounds like it's worth a look
Sounds like a great trip mate. Well done with your fish.
Cheers.
Damn, sounds awesome.... wish I was there!
Oh, wait..... I was
Next time we need to pack more Stones Ginger Wine. Much more.
My 40th is at the start of next year Damned. I think you know what i'm thinking? You have got me thoroughly addicted to that sweet ginger elixir .
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