Herm
25-11-2007, 02:20 PM
I was lucky enough to be invited to go out on a charter on Baitrunner by the boys from my old work! This trip has been planned for months and it was great to get to go!
Met at Chris' house at 2am along with ChrisW and Martin for the drive to Rainbow. Stopped off at the Log Cabin on the way up for a bacon, egg and Kwells brekkie and met up with some more of the crew - Shawn and Michael.
Arrived at the boat and found the rest of the crew, AV and Steve, at 5am ready to go! and down came the rain!
Tony from Baitrunner mentioned that it was not going to be the best day - but let's go!
Out through the bar, Craig seems to effortlessly handle the boat through the waves and swell and off to the first mark of 3 we would fish today.
As the only SP's fisher on board - on goes the NC and over she goes! To my surprise - my first pearly comes aboard! My Brian Webby curse is lifted!
Then while the boys are reeling in around me - nothing more on the SP's
(I don't think that I had enough weight on, and I only had up to 1 1/2 oz jig heads, so change of gear and onto bait.
I improved my PB with a nice snapper - and that was it more me! But that's OK!
I must admit that this point that being a boy would have been easier! At one point I noticed one of the boys heading out the back between the motors and then OMG I realised why! Then about halfway through the trip I had to go - down into the tiny coffin sized loo - with the little porthole - showing me the wavy wavy water outside - I am not sure whether it was the rocking of the boat or the confined space but I emerged from the loo feeling a little bit greener than I went in, I tried in vain to find my kwells but crawling around on my hands and knees in another little cabin in my bag was making things worse. I staggered back out onto the deck and found my water in the esky, some boiled lollies sat down on the seat. I am sure that the extreme tiredness that hit me about now was not helping and after a bit of a berly, a Travelcalm tablet and quick snooze and I was feeling OK again - and out came the fishing rod! But I had caught all I was going to!
AV was killing the snapper on his "broomstick" and Micheal was also having blinder and boated a lovely sweetlip, Martin was the quiet achiever just keeping busy winding them in!
It was hard to see what was going on over the other side of the boat but from
the continuous commentary from Shawn - I would say that he was doing more than OK. Thank you to Chris who was looking out for me all day - and I think that this affected his catch rate quite alot for the day! Sorry! I owe you!
The sight of the day was ChrisW and Steve side by side battling something substantial only to get a tangle towards the end - the cry goes up - "It's got my hook" "No- it's my hook" As it turned out the greedy cobia had BOTH hooks firmly embedded in it's bottom jaw! What a sight!
But overall we ended up with a great mixed bag of fish! which was divided up at the end of a long day - I would have been more than happy with just my catch - but I was told this is the way they do it!
Arrived back home at 9.15pm last night - looking for my hot shower and warm bed!
Thank you Boys for allowing me to crash your regular crew!and thanks to Tony and Craig from Baitrunner for all of their help!
I can hardly move my arms today but - I had a great time!
Cheers
Janine
Met at Chris' house at 2am along with ChrisW and Martin for the drive to Rainbow. Stopped off at the Log Cabin on the way up for a bacon, egg and Kwells brekkie and met up with some more of the crew - Shawn and Michael.
Arrived at the boat and found the rest of the crew, AV and Steve, at 5am ready to go! and down came the rain!
Tony from Baitrunner mentioned that it was not going to be the best day - but let's go!
Out through the bar, Craig seems to effortlessly handle the boat through the waves and swell and off to the first mark of 3 we would fish today.
As the only SP's fisher on board - on goes the NC and over she goes! To my surprise - my first pearly comes aboard! My Brian Webby curse is lifted!
Then while the boys are reeling in around me - nothing more on the SP's
(I don't think that I had enough weight on, and I only had up to 1 1/2 oz jig heads, so change of gear and onto bait.
I improved my PB with a nice snapper - and that was it more me! But that's OK!
I must admit that this point that being a boy would have been easier! At one point I noticed one of the boys heading out the back between the motors and then OMG I realised why! Then about halfway through the trip I had to go - down into the tiny coffin sized loo - with the little porthole - showing me the wavy wavy water outside - I am not sure whether it was the rocking of the boat or the confined space but I emerged from the loo feeling a little bit greener than I went in, I tried in vain to find my kwells but crawling around on my hands and knees in another little cabin in my bag was making things worse. I staggered back out onto the deck and found my water in the esky, some boiled lollies sat down on the seat. I am sure that the extreme tiredness that hit me about now was not helping and after a bit of a berly, a Travelcalm tablet and quick snooze and I was feeling OK again - and out came the fishing rod! But I had caught all I was going to!
AV was killing the snapper on his "broomstick" and Micheal was also having blinder and boated a lovely sweetlip, Martin was the quiet achiever just keeping busy winding them in!
It was hard to see what was going on over the other side of the boat but from
the continuous commentary from Shawn - I would say that he was doing more than OK. Thank you to Chris who was looking out for me all day - and I think that this affected his catch rate quite alot for the day! Sorry! I owe you!
The sight of the day was ChrisW and Steve side by side battling something substantial only to get a tangle towards the end - the cry goes up - "It's got my hook" "No- it's my hook" As it turned out the greedy cobia had BOTH hooks firmly embedded in it's bottom jaw! What a sight!
But overall we ended up with a great mixed bag of fish! which was divided up at the end of a long day - I would have been more than happy with just my catch - but I was told this is the way they do it!
Arrived back home at 9.15pm last night - looking for my hot shower and warm bed!
Thank you Boys for allowing me to crash your regular crew!and thanks to Tony and Craig from Baitrunner for all of their help!
I can hardly move my arms today but - I had a great time!
Cheers
Janine