Scott nthQld
16-12-2007, 12:21 PM
Nonibbles agreed to take me out in his boat yesterday, but he needed a tow, I was quick to take up the offer. We headed out and were on the water by 3.30pm, earlier hoping to get in some beacon bashing for a few macks, but the weather gods didn't want us to.
So we headed over to maggie island, and had a drift along picnic bay for nothing. There was some surface action, but what ever it was, didn't like the look of my slugs I ws throwing at it. Afetr this non event we cruised down to middle reef in search of some live squid and fingermark ans the sun went down. In the meantime, pillies were chopped up and sent over the side fr burley ad larger pieces were drifted down the burley trail.
It wasn't long until WHACK zzzzzzzz....reefed, damn, bloody fish, left him some slack and he got himself out and when boated was revealed to be a small grassy, so back he went. Back to the cubing and WHACK, zzzzzz...ping! Bite off, bastard. meanwhile paul pulled a small cod aboard and went back. one goes another hook, and anoth 1/2 pilly, I better tighten the drag a bit, I thick I'm making too easy for the fish to get back to the safety of the reef. So with 14lb fireline, 20lb fluro leader and 4kg drag, I though surely I could raise a good fish. The actin went quiet for a while, and I was getting a little dozy, and put the rd in the holder for a rest and a drink. No soner was I sitting down, came WHACK, zzzzzzzzzzzz.... brick, man these were some good fish.
I should taken the hint to upgrade to some heavier gear, but no, I stuck with the 14lb stick thinking I would get the better of one soon. All up I got smoked about 4-5 times, with the fish just steaming straight to the reef, nothing stopping them. After aother bite off, and an upgrade to a heavier leader, the big fish stopped and we pulled aboard a few small grassy's and cod, as well as a couple of stripey's. I picked up 2 leopard sharks, one about 60cm, the other would've been pushing a metre, both of these went back.
The smokers without a doubt would've been some sizeable fingermark, and next time I will use the heavier gear to find out for sure. No keepers came aboard, but the constant tension of waiting for another of those freight trains kept us in suspense almost the whole night. Pillies were doing the damage by daylight, and squid was the bait of choice during the twilight and darkness hours. Paul was flicking some plastic around with a few bumps and hits, but no hook ups. Plastic neve crossed my mind, I was busy keeping the burley trail going and trying to stop the monsters of the deep.
Headed for home, as the wind wa relentless, and kept getting stronger as the night went on, we started the arvo with 15-20kn NE and finished up with about 15-25kn NE. Headed in with no fish in the esky, but still had a good night out, and can't wait to hit that spot again for some of those bigguns.
Cheers,
Scott
So we headed over to maggie island, and had a drift along picnic bay for nothing. There was some surface action, but what ever it was, didn't like the look of my slugs I ws throwing at it. Afetr this non event we cruised down to middle reef in search of some live squid and fingermark ans the sun went down. In the meantime, pillies were chopped up and sent over the side fr burley ad larger pieces were drifted down the burley trail.
It wasn't long until WHACK zzzzzzzz....reefed, damn, bloody fish, left him some slack and he got himself out and when boated was revealed to be a small grassy, so back he went. Back to the cubing and WHACK, zzzzzz...ping! Bite off, bastard. meanwhile paul pulled a small cod aboard and went back. one goes another hook, and anoth 1/2 pilly, I better tighten the drag a bit, I thick I'm making too easy for the fish to get back to the safety of the reef. So with 14lb fireline, 20lb fluro leader and 4kg drag, I though surely I could raise a good fish. The actin went quiet for a while, and I was getting a little dozy, and put the rd in the holder for a rest and a drink. No soner was I sitting down, came WHACK, zzzzzzzzzzzz.... brick, man these were some good fish.
I should taken the hint to upgrade to some heavier gear, but no, I stuck with the 14lb stick thinking I would get the better of one soon. All up I got smoked about 4-5 times, with the fish just steaming straight to the reef, nothing stopping them. After aother bite off, and an upgrade to a heavier leader, the big fish stopped and we pulled aboard a few small grassy's and cod, as well as a couple of stripey's. I picked up 2 leopard sharks, one about 60cm, the other would've been pushing a metre, both of these went back.
The smokers without a doubt would've been some sizeable fingermark, and next time I will use the heavier gear to find out for sure. No keepers came aboard, but the constant tension of waiting for another of those freight trains kept us in suspense almost the whole night. Pillies were doing the damage by daylight, and squid was the bait of choice during the twilight and darkness hours. Paul was flicking some plastic around with a few bumps and hits, but no hook ups. Plastic neve crossed my mind, I was busy keeping the burley trail going and trying to stop the monsters of the deep.
Headed for home, as the wind wa relentless, and kept getting stronger as the night went on, we started the arvo with 15-20kn NE and finished up with about 15-25kn NE. Headed in with no fish in the esky, but still had a good night out, and can't wait to hit that spot again for some of those bigguns.
Cheers,
Scott