devocean
21-11-2005, 09:02 PM
Well got the flu thursday pretty bad and a trip to the doctors confirmed that I was unable to go spearing this weekend which meant I pretty sad. So I checked the forcast and with light winds and the tide looking good I deceided to put a few pots in and try my lucjk with the muddies. WEll it went from a crabbin trip to a reef trip the moment I saw out the mouth and off I went in with my neighbour who had come along for a crabbing trip in my 3.95 quinny 5 mile offshore to a secret little patch of reef.
Well we got there and as we were starting the burley trail we knew it was going to be good with 3 cobia coming to the surface for a look. I had previously dropped one there about 15kg so I had brought the crabs ready for some action.
However they were fickle on the bite and hung of the trail but with some slow drifting past them we finally managed a hook up on a nice 85cm fish.
We starting getting a few nice grassy sweetlip and a few spanglies then we were inundated with bludger trevally. In about 45 minutes we caught over 35 of these buggers all on handlines (no gloves) with the average size being about 5kg with some bigger ones amongst them. Soon the fingers started to hurt so we shifted to another closer reef where a few nice spanglies just on legal hit the esky as well as a couple of mackeral.
This reef was full of baby red emperor and we must have caught 30 to 40 fish with the biggest red being 46cm. Geez its getting hard to catch a legal fish. Anyway heres the pics
Well we got there and as we were starting the burley trail we knew it was going to be good with 3 cobia coming to the surface for a look. I had previously dropped one there about 15kg so I had brought the crabs ready for some action.
However they were fickle on the bite and hung of the trail but with some slow drifting past them we finally managed a hook up on a nice 85cm fish.
We starting getting a few nice grassy sweetlip and a few spanglies then we were inundated with bludger trevally. In about 45 minutes we caught over 35 of these buggers all on handlines (no gloves) with the average size being about 5kg with some bigger ones amongst them. Soon the fingers started to hurt so we shifted to another closer reef where a few nice spanglies just on legal hit the esky as well as a couple of mackeral.
This reef was full of baby red emperor and we must have caught 30 to 40 fish with the biggest red being 46cm. Geez its getting hard to catch a legal fish. Anyway heres the pics