flairj
20-05-2007, 05:22 PM
My luck from two weeks ago fishing on the Fitzroy must have still been there because I thought a 90cm wild fish from the river wash an extremely good fish, so to have bettered it this morning with a 110cm specimen amazed me.
Same spot, same plan, smaller lures had my first threadfin salmon come in after 30 seconds of trolling. We spent longer on taking the photos than we did with a lure in the water. Redeployed the lures and I told the visiting Englishman (first time fishing) he could wind in the next fish. Five minutes later on the second pass the Englishman says in a calm voice "Ooo ai, I think ya got woon". I pulled the rod out of the holder and was going to hand it to him but the fish was like a freight train and was about to spool fifty bucks worth of braid and a fifteen dollar lure, so I made the call that I might have to take this one. I could see the bottom of the spool and only just turned the boat around in time to give chase with the electric motor. The fish stayed deep and dogged the whole battle and only surfaced at the boat after circling it three times and came towards the now even more redundant seeming Bream net.
It tapped out the 30lb bogagrip and eventually went 32lbs on the scale and gave the backpacking Englishman some stories and photos to show of his fish (that I wound in for him)
I'm now looking forward to two weeks when the tides cycle through again to hit the same spot.
Josh
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i118/flairj/Red1-2.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i118/flairj/Red2-1.jpg
Same spot, same plan, smaller lures had my first threadfin salmon come in after 30 seconds of trolling. We spent longer on taking the photos than we did with a lure in the water. Redeployed the lures and I told the visiting Englishman (first time fishing) he could wind in the next fish. Five minutes later on the second pass the Englishman says in a calm voice "Ooo ai, I think ya got woon". I pulled the rod out of the holder and was going to hand it to him but the fish was like a freight train and was about to spool fifty bucks worth of braid and a fifteen dollar lure, so I made the call that I might have to take this one. I could see the bottom of the spool and only just turned the boat around in time to give chase with the electric motor. The fish stayed deep and dogged the whole battle and only surfaced at the boat after circling it three times and came towards the now even more redundant seeming Bream net.
It tapped out the 30lb bogagrip and eventually went 32lbs on the scale and gave the backpacking Englishman some stories and photos to show of his fish (that I wound in for him)
I'm now looking forward to two weeks when the tides cycle through again to hit the same spot.
Josh
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i118/flairj/Red1-2.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i118/flairj/Red2-1.jpg