Lord Who???

[Thunderbird]

Just returned from a week long trip to Lord Howe Island. This island is located off the east coast of Australia in the middle of nowhere.

With the weather perfect, I managed to get 2 trips out on Phasmid Charters with skipper Dave Gardner & his deckie Tom. The fishing from this boat was awesome and red hot with King Fish, sharks, cod & other reef species caught.

Don't want to sound long in the tooth so will let the photos do the talking.

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The deckie holding up 2 king fish. Check the fish on the left for battle scars.

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Another species caught off Lord Howe is the invisible tail kingy.

[mackmauler]

Im lookin at the 1 on the floor!

good to see you had a succesful trip Mark.

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Getting past the mutton birds is the first problem when dropping a bait. Getting the fish up before the sharks is the second.

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Kingtin you'd be proud

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Check the bottom out on Dave's sounder. Notice the contour lines on the left to see just how fast the bottom drops away into deep deep deep water.

[opimax]

good one roota

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Dave with a nice opal eye cod bound for the esky. A species that I'd never come across before.

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These pair nearly floated away on the surface when the aluminium crimp split in half under the enormous pressure of being dragged up 150 mtrs. This cod is a black cod and are protected so was released after a couple of photos.

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Another... don't quite know what it is ... maybe someone can help out.

[tomanygranders]

there is 2 type of fish,billfish and baitfish

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Didn't get to fish down this area known as Balls Pyramid but from what I've heard the pelagic action was pretty good. As it was, the first day we trolled a couple of skirted lures off the northern end of the island and raised a bill fish before the second lure was set but unfortunately, the fish was dropped. Also managed to hook up a wahoo but this fish missed the hooks too. 5 minutes later, another wahoo came clean out of the water but missed our lures on the way through. Bugger...

[chemmy]

great haul guys [smiley=2thumbsup.gif]

i wish i could get out there

just out of curiosity how mush did this whole holiday set you back ???

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Another charter to look at if Phasmid's booked out is with Jack Shick on his 7mtr plate boat.