jordanh
03-05-2007, 01:59 PM
hey all, just signed up to this site so thought id say hi and do a report on my weekend trip. After alot of pleading, and stuffing around, managed to get work off and my driving lessons off to spend 2 days on the water with Rob. far out it was the best fishing trip of my life.
set of from Cleveland boat ramp, and continued along past peel island, where from peel island to past amity point, there was non stop busting up of longtails. I was like an out of control fox terrier going nuts on the bow at everything I saw, poor rob... I was pleading with him to let us stop and have a chop at the fish, but he knew we would have no luck, and he also knew what waited for us out in the bay...
started trolling out in the open water at about 2 pm. I wasn’t hopeful, all this water, what are the chances we just so happen to drag one past one of the fish? after about a minute and a half one of the TLD's started screaming out of control!! holy shit!! i swore over and over repeatedly looking for my video camera, just as the second rod went crazy as well. 'shit shit shit what do i do?" i tried to pick it up out of the rod holder but it was so difficult. finally after a short but very very fierce fight on 50lb line, two mack tunas were landed. "YOU BEAUTY!!!!!!" my first ever tuna. i looked like an idiot in the boat going nuts over such a common tuna, but i was one happy fisho. in about half an hour, we managed to get another 4 mack tunas and a yellow fin each. the colour on those fish is absolutely incredible, felt so bad that I was keeping them...
we went out to some reef after getting some slimies and yakkas for some dolphin fish. unfortunately we only stayed there for about half an hour, as rob got bored of it pretty quickly and was ready to move on to bigger fish. I was absolutely stunned though. as soon as the livey hit the water, the area became alive with dolphin fish. only small ones, but they were every where, chasing the livey around the boat. we landed 3 between us, when i decided to beat troy at his own game. rigged up a potato seed minow fish grup with a tail thing and threw it out with the heaviest jig head i had, and before long... bang!!! a dolphin fish in the boat caught on a plastic.
we moved on to catch some bigger fish, far out was i in for the biggest workout of my life... dropped some livies down, and in moments, we were on. got snapped off a couple of times before rob began gaining some line on a giant fish. after a very long and straining fight, a 40kg, yes i said 40 kg cod was landed. unfortunatley the pressure killed the fish and it was thrown back as shark food, there was nothing we could do, it was just unlucky by catch. we punctured the swim bladder but it didn’t manage to live.
after that it was my turn to bring a fish in. again, after a few moments my line began to scream like mad. after almost giving up several times, a 13 kg amberjack was landed. what a beeeeast. i was so stoked. after a few pictures it was thrown back, it had no troubles finding the bottom again. went after some snapper and pearlies, managing to land a few each before our night was cut short by me getting spiked by a scorpian fish http://www.brisbanefishing.com.au/components/com_joomlaboard/emoticons/pinch.png painful painful stupid mistake.
after sleeping the pain off we went out again early in the morning for some more pearlies but diddnt get any, so we went off to the shelf for some bigger fish. unfortunately we wernt out there for long, as the motor started making some funny noises and we headed back, accompanied by a pod of playful dolphins at the bow of the boat, wait till you see the video, it was incredible. managed to get a skipjack tuna before we got back in, and another skipjack and mack inside the bay. on our last troll, rob lost a good 20 kg+ wahoo (possibly due to my dodgy boat driving skills http://www.brisbanefishing.com.au/components/com_joomlaboard/emoticons/angry.png)
just to prove i hadn’t missed any action on the longtails, we chased them for about an hour and a half with no success before we got back into the ramp.
all in all, it was an incredible trip that I certainly wont ever forget. will post some of the pics soon. THANK YOU ROB!!!
set of from Cleveland boat ramp, and continued along past peel island, where from peel island to past amity point, there was non stop busting up of longtails. I was like an out of control fox terrier going nuts on the bow at everything I saw, poor rob... I was pleading with him to let us stop and have a chop at the fish, but he knew we would have no luck, and he also knew what waited for us out in the bay...
started trolling out in the open water at about 2 pm. I wasn’t hopeful, all this water, what are the chances we just so happen to drag one past one of the fish? after about a minute and a half one of the TLD's started screaming out of control!! holy shit!! i swore over and over repeatedly looking for my video camera, just as the second rod went crazy as well. 'shit shit shit what do i do?" i tried to pick it up out of the rod holder but it was so difficult. finally after a short but very very fierce fight on 50lb line, two mack tunas were landed. "YOU BEAUTY!!!!!!" my first ever tuna. i looked like an idiot in the boat going nuts over such a common tuna, but i was one happy fisho. in about half an hour, we managed to get another 4 mack tunas and a yellow fin each. the colour on those fish is absolutely incredible, felt so bad that I was keeping them...
we went out to some reef after getting some slimies and yakkas for some dolphin fish. unfortunately we only stayed there for about half an hour, as rob got bored of it pretty quickly and was ready to move on to bigger fish. I was absolutely stunned though. as soon as the livey hit the water, the area became alive with dolphin fish. only small ones, but they were every where, chasing the livey around the boat. we landed 3 between us, when i decided to beat troy at his own game. rigged up a potato seed minow fish grup with a tail thing and threw it out with the heaviest jig head i had, and before long... bang!!! a dolphin fish in the boat caught on a plastic.
we moved on to catch some bigger fish, far out was i in for the biggest workout of my life... dropped some livies down, and in moments, we were on. got snapped off a couple of times before rob began gaining some line on a giant fish. after a very long and straining fight, a 40kg, yes i said 40 kg cod was landed. unfortunatley the pressure killed the fish and it was thrown back as shark food, there was nothing we could do, it was just unlucky by catch. we punctured the swim bladder but it didn’t manage to live.
after that it was my turn to bring a fish in. again, after a few moments my line began to scream like mad. after almost giving up several times, a 13 kg amberjack was landed. what a beeeeast. i was so stoked. after a few pictures it was thrown back, it had no troubles finding the bottom again. went after some snapper and pearlies, managing to land a few each before our night was cut short by me getting spiked by a scorpian fish http://www.brisbanefishing.com.au/components/com_joomlaboard/emoticons/pinch.png painful painful stupid mistake.
after sleeping the pain off we went out again early in the morning for some more pearlies but diddnt get any, so we went off to the shelf for some bigger fish. unfortunately we wernt out there for long, as the motor started making some funny noises and we headed back, accompanied by a pod of playful dolphins at the bow of the boat, wait till you see the video, it was incredible. managed to get a skipjack tuna before we got back in, and another skipjack and mack inside the bay. on our last troll, rob lost a good 20 kg+ wahoo (possibly due to my dodgy boat driving skills http://www.brisbanefishing.com.au/components/com_joomlaboard/emoticons/angry.png)
just to prove i hadn’t missed any action on the longtails, we chased them for about an hour and a half with no success before we got back into the ramp.
all in all, it was an incredible trip that I certainly wont ever forget. will post some of the pics soon. THANK YOU ROB!!!