jtpython
02-04-2010, 07:51 PM
The plan was to head out on thursday night in beautiful conditions and hook into the Reds and come home early on Good friday with a heap of fish before the weather turned off on saturday.
We left the harbour and cruised out the 60 km to our spot on 40 km/hr is lovely slight conditions to set up anchor on our spotin an hour and a half and started straight into the red jew with the mate catching a nice red emp to boot. Fishing was slow as it doesn't fire much on a out going tide so we caught fish on and off over the next couple hours . A dolphin hung around behind us for a couple hours even taking a heap of fresh fish bait we were throwing behind the boat but wouldn't let us touch him ......... he kept us amazed in the moonlight conditions.
The mate hooked a couple chinaman fish giving the old arms a work out he said.
http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo159/jtpython/DSC02954-Copy.jpg
The call wasmade to get up early to get right on the bottom of tide and starting hooking into them at 5 33 am. We woke around 3 30 am to be greeted with side on to the waves and current in 19 knots of southerly and thought of joy. Being southerly we thought it may drop off so we fished a little them jumped back into our sleeping bags to be woken up by a squally storm blowing gear off the bait board everywhere. Time to go .
We left around 5 am to head to keppel to catch up for a early morning wake up call to Rat Catcher staying at the islands for a couple days.
Cleaned filleted and ready for bed by 12 midday.
http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo159/jtpython/DSC02958-Copy.jpg
http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo159/jtpython/DSC02966-Copy.jpg
http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo159/jtpython/DSC02962.jpg
http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo159/jtpython/DSC02965.jpg
12 Red jew 1 Red and a spangled
My daughter didn't get much of a mention as she spent all the time up in the cabin like a sloth as sleep even on way home we went thru a heap of hammering down rain she was still sleeping
JT
We left the harbour and cruised out the 60 km to our spot on 40 km/hr is lovely slight conditions to set up anchor on our spotin an hour and a half and started straight into the red jew with the mate catching a nice red emp to boot. Fishing was slow as it doesn't fire much on a out going tide so we caught fish on and off over the next couple hours . A dolphin hung around behind us for a couple hours even taking a heap of fresh fish bait we were throwing behind the boat but wouldn't let us touch him ......... he kept us amazed in the moonlight conditions.
The mate hooked a couple chinaman fish giving the old arms a work out he said.
http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo159/jtpython/DSC02954-Copy.jpg
The call wasmade to get up early to get right on the bottom of tide and starting hooking into them at 5 33 am. We woke around 3 30 am to be greeted with side on to the waves and current in 19 knots of southerly and thought of joy. Being southerly we thought it may drop off so we fished a little them jumped back into our sleeping bags to be woken up by a squally storm blowing gear off the bait board everywhere. Time to go .
We left around 5 am to head to keppel to catch up for a early morning wake up call to Rat Catcher staying at the islands for a couple days.
Cleaned filleted and ready for bed by 12 midday.
http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo159/jtpython/DSC02958-Copy.jpg
http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo159/jtpython/DSC02966-Copy.jpg
http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo159/jtpython/DSC02962.jpg
http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo159/jtpython/DSC02965.jpg
12 Red jew 1 Red and a spangled
My daughter didn't get much of a mention as she spent all the time up in the cabin like a sloth as sleep even on way home we went thru a heap of hammering down rain she was still sleeping
JT