SNAPPA'S....weekend at D/I.

[snappa]

I was invited to accompany “opimax” for a red emperor safari to double island with me having great expectation to slaughter the red population..
The teams one was “opimax” myself [snappa] and the NEW found red emperor legend Brad. The one and the same from the front cover of this months “BUSH and BEACH”. Team two was reefy and his dad who were going to meet us up at D/I.
Team one left Narangba at 5.30 pm and arrived at our pre determined spot at 7.30 to sit down to a couple of beers [coke for me] and large “T- bone” steak and of course 2 large garlic breads…we all had some, so it wasn’t much of a problem later that nite in the cabin of the boat ???
On the way up we could see a lot of lighting over Double Island and agreed by the time we get there all would be over. Maybe ????
Phone call to find out where reefy was and a short hours waits for them to arrive. I finally got to meet reefy [Greg] and his dad [terry]. We then drove up the beach to D/I. blow.
No problems for us as lee had gained some experience from his last trip and of course reefy and his dad, years behind them towing their boat to D/I.
Arrive at the beach launch site and talk … then off to bed.

Pic 1 shows lee “opimax” emerging from down under on Saturday morning after raining or should I say buckets during the nite.

[snappa]

Pic 2 lee having an arm wrestle with a large A/J.

[snappa]

Pic 3 .. team ones catch … not much when considering the hours on the water but I must say Saturdays weather was not good and we had to fish in close to rainbow where the only thing caught were bait fish.

[snappa]

Pic 4 .. Boats on the trailers ready for the trip home.

[snappa]

Pic 5 .. reefy holding up a large A/J.

. I MUST MENTION THAT I HAD A GREAT TIME AND HOPE to GET INVITED IN THE FUTURE

They were saying all weekend how unlucky it was “the weather” and “the fishing”, all the time looking at me ?????


A short story by snappa

[Smithy]

Lee,

is that the 6 cylinder petrol, turbo diesel or the little 3.0l.

We finished up with 19 keepers and untold u/s Pearlies. 99% came from 2.3 Nm off DI for all you guys with little tinnies.

[dfox]

bad luck snappa, the weather has been strange the last week with all those offshore storms. im a keen red hunter as well, i fished for them professionaly out of innisfail for 6 years. ive managed a few 15 kilos while chasing nobbies south of di but ive watched with interest those di boys catches, hope you get another shot at them soon...foxy

[snappa]

foxy

when ever your looking for crew :o

just ring ::)

[dfox]

im off the water for a fortnight, (work) but il be chasing those big nobbies that were caught this time last year, i think some sporned on the last moon after gutting saturday nights catch.

[Cheech]

Great post snappa. I expect amongst a lot of us that have been following your exploits, it was with great expectation that I looked out for a post of your weekend.

I think what is most impressive is that being a proven producer, you have taken your current bad run with such good humour and humility. Would be easy to get peeeed off.

Those of us that fish the bay, we are use to sessions of not much. I fished from 3pm till midnight on Saturday in the bay and all I had to show for it was one lousy bream (about 34cm so a good size, just not the right quantity)

Anyway,,, will await the next chapter.

Cheech

[snappa]

cheech
i may have stumbled onto my bad luck [ i'm not losing it . too young i think now what was i saying] :-[
yes .. i believe i have been EATING too many bananas, "the one who must be obeyed" came home from shopping on sunday with bag FULL :o ... and said don't forget to eat the bananas before they go rotten... so i guess i must have the bloody things inside... :P
i have STOP eating bananas. so follow my posts to see if things improved ;D ;D
weather looks like sh%t this week but the boat fuel up and ready to go ... ;)

lee ... put all the old bait and frames through the mincer today and mixed with tuna oil ..... bag and ready to go ???

[Cloud_9]

Ive been haveing the same luck snappa.
went out saturday for zip.
but nice to take boat out after 4weeks ;D
have to do some real hard yards to get the average up while the reds are around.
hopein for good report for saturday coming, trip with webby and a few others out in the bay :-X sorry cant plan too far in advance . have better luck with impromptue trips ;D ;D
i'll get up there one day to fish those great areas.
just remember a bad days fishing is always better than a good day at work.

Cheers Cloud 9

[snappa]

cloud9

your NEW4x4 would be a breeze to tow your boat up to D/I
arrange a ausfish weekend at D/I... that weekend reefy could be busy ;D ;D

[Mr.Ocean]

Hi Snappa

That's a great trip ;)

Cheers

[snappa]

mr ocean

come on over .. 8)
i can organise a trip for ya ;D
and accom.

[opimax]

giday all
when you add the catch up it was amberjack, cobia, snappa, pearlies,trout, parrot. it was a slow trip but we could`t go were we wanted. i will look at different tactics next time always learning in fishing & try a few new ways. but i don`t aways measure a trip on the fish that are caunt. its all new gound to fish & the more i travel them waters the more i like it. so if the weather plays the game i will be there this w/end. p.s top catch greg & terry will look foreward to the next trip ;D :D :o lee
p.s.s smithy 4.8 petrol auto ;D

[opimax]

amberjack

[opimax]

must learn how to down size my photos that took 2 hours & looks like s#$t ;D ;D.lee

[Cloud_9]

Lee if you have windows XP you can resize soon as you save to computer.with folder open ( where the pics are ) left click file you should have resize pictures about half way down the list of things that are avalable to do . click on that it with resize to 4 deferent sizes. if you dont have that its a ease free down load from windows powertoys picture resizer.
hope this helps.

[opimax]

again

[aido]

nice pic optimax, well done.
bet your happy with that. ;D ;D

[Mr.Ocean]

Hi Snappa

Thanks for your inviteed, I wish I can go fishing with you someday in AU or Thailand.

This August 29 I'll go to North Sydney(blue street) for business and be there 1week but not sure I have much time for fishing.

If you know any place for buy fishing tackle or fishing around there please tell me.

Cheers,Ocean

[rickraider]

what happened snappa no sharks from the pajero ???

[snappa]

3 WEEKS time :P


stay tuned ;D
this year to make it a bit fairer on the sharks,
i have decided not to use the pajero ;)
so
it will be a gang effort of 8 blokes holding onto the end of the cable :-*

;D ;D

[rickraider]

snappa you are LEGEND .please post photos again enjoyed your verbal abuse last year.

[snappa]

:P

[Smithy]

The 60cm Pearly we got.

[Smithy]

Our little haul.