baitable
09-12-2007, 04:26 PM
Headed out on sat to what was a perfect day.. Left spinaker sound approx 430 ish (due to that massive impedeing down pour) to find a very tame moreton bay. Headed out to the cape and proceded to fish around sun up.
Fish were a plenty with good snapper, cobia and parrot coming aboard thick. We bagged out on snapper avg 3kg early around 9 o'clock.
Story of the day would have to go to yours truly.... We saw a flock of working birds and procceded to chase tuna as we had our esky full. Motored up very slowly to the edge and a mate of mine started throwing slugs, I though thought it would be fun on my soft plastics rod. The fish were certainly not tuna, they were monsterous kings. Anyways, I hooked onto the bloody leader of the pack then I got tangled with the retirive of the slug. I had to free spool the caldia to have any chance whilst we sorted out the tangle. Anyways about 1 min later we had the tangle free and low and behold the yellowtail kingfish comes crusing past with my plastic in its gob chasing the bait fish. I can say now it was every bit of a 15kg plus kingie. I flipped the bail on the sucker and off she went.. I dont really know what happened next but close to being spooled i;ve a feeling the braid had a weak link in it and the rest is history....
Also got smoked quite a fair bit on plastics..
Oh last thing, mackeral are back.... We headed back into the shipping beacons and got a few lives for next time. Saw couple of boats pulling up some mackeral around the 2kg mark...
cheers
baitable
Fish were a plenty with good snapper, cobia and parrot coming aboard thick. We bagged out on snapper avg 3kg early around 9 o'clock.
Story of the day would have to go to yours truly.... We saw a flock of working birds and procceded to chase tuna as we had our esky full. Motored up very slowly to the edge and a mate of mine started throwing slugs, I though thought it would be fun on my soft plastics rod. The fish were certainly not tuna, they were monsterous kings. Anyways, I hooked onto the bloody leader of the pack then I got tangled with the retirive of the slug. I had to free spool the caldia to have any chance whilst we sorted out the tangle. Anyways about 1 min later we had the tangle free and low and behold the yellowtail kingfish comes crusing past with my plastic in its gob chasing the bait fish. I can say now it was every bit of a 15kg plus kingie. I flipped the bail on the sucker and off she went.. I dont really know what happened next but close to being spooled i;ve a feeling the braid had a weak link in it and the rest is history....
Also got smoked quite a fair bit on plastics..
Oh last thing, mackeral are back.... We headed back into the shipping beacons and got a few lives for next time. Saw couple of boats pulling up some mackeral around the 2kg mark...
cheers
baitable