aquarius
19-11-2005, 01:56 PM
Howdy Folks, Well after following Seabreeze.com.au for the last few days it was looking good for an overnight/morning plastic session.
Jim and i launched my boat at Whyte Island just prior to midnight Friday.
Headed out to a calm bay and found some structure to drift plastics in the moonlight.
Talk about the dead sea.!!.....nothing touched the plastics in the first hour and when i did finally get a strike all that came aboard was a squire head.....Damn Sharks!
Jim had a scorching run and then twang the line severed......mackerel or shark?
Re rig and back into the bay for another few hours soaking.
Can,t understand why the fish did not play the game last night.....maybe too much food for them.
Dawn arrives and we head out to the 10 metre zone to hunt a few larger snapper.
Heaps of bait schools showing but no action.
Tide was in the last hour of the ebb so that might be the reason they would not fire up.
Meet up with Steven and he said the shallow ground was producing a few fish so we tried our luck on the 4 metre contour dropoff.
I threw on some gulps and first cast 1 keeper squire.....second and third also put another 2 squire in the esky.
My baitcaster/rod reel combo then buckled over and i started to fight what seemed like a decent fish.
A few minutes later a large Catfish comes to the surface.......Talk about stink!!!!
I released it unharmed to haunt another ausfish member..lol ;D
Mid morning and it was a bit quiet so we decided to head further north.
Found a nice bommie near a floating marker and proceeded to cast out our plastics.
Bang!!!!!! Jim hooks up to a quality fish that gave him some run around.
Minutes later he was happy with a snodger bream in the net. :o
Had a visit from the boys in blue checking out the safety gear......Watched them chase down one boat that headed for home ;D
A tired pair of fisherman finally call it a night/day before lunch time but was a top night weather wise under the stars and moon.
Hope some of you came home with a feed but if not there,s always a next time.
Cheers Brent :)
Jim and i launched my boat at Whyte Island just prior to midnight Friday.
Headed out to a calm bay and found some structure to drift plastics in the moonlight.
Talk about the dead sea.!!.....nothing touched the plastics in the first hour and when i did finally get a strike all that came aboard was a squire head.....Damn Sharks!
Jim had a scorching run and then twang the line severed......mackerel or shark?
Re rig and back into the bay for another few hours soaking.
Can,t understand why the fish did not play the game last night.....maybe too much food for them.
Dawn arrives and we head out to the 10 metre zone to hunt a few larger snapper.
Heaps of bait schools showing but no action.
Tide was in the last hour of the ebb so that might be the reason they would not fire up.
Meet up with Steven and he said the shallow ground was producing a few fish so we tried our luck on the 4 metre contour dropoff.
I threw on some gulps and first cast 1 keeper squire.....second and third also put another 2 squire in the esky.
My baitcaster/rod reel combo then buckled over and i started to fight what seemed like a decent fish.
A few minutes later a large Catfish comes to the surface.......Talk about stink!!!!
I released it unharmed to haunt another ausfish member..lol ;D
Mid morning and it was a bit quiet so we decided to head further north.
Found a nice bommie near a floating marker and proceeded to cast out our plastics.
Bang!!!!!! Jim hooks up to a quality fish that gave him some run around.
Minutes later he was happy with a snodger bream in the net. :o
Had a visit from the boys in blue checking out the safety gear......Watched them chase down one boat that headed for home ;D
A tired pair of fisherman finally call it a night/day before lunch time but was a top night weather wise under the stars and moon.
Hope some of you came home with a feed but if not there,s always a next time.
Cheers Brent :)