Outsider
19-01-2004, 02:15 PM
To all those who stayed at home this morning - Thank you so very, very much.
An absolutely perfect day on the bay with only TWO other boats seen until 10am - I sh*t you not!
Left Bribie at 4.30am and headed out to my favourite beacon in the bay.
1st drop of a pillie and my father, who was out with me for the first time, hooks up to something fairly sizable.
Doesn't fight like a Mack so I'm thinking some Mr Sharky action but low and behold if it wasn't a Cobe - bastard!
After I finished cursing God and my Father for playing this "great" joke on me - I'm still waiting to bag my 1st Cobe - we drop again.
It's Mack time now at the Beacons! No spotties but lots of schoolies.
Livies were hard to get - and to get whole - jigged up a procession of Slimey Mackeral Heads with several bait jiggs destroyed. Gave that up as a bad joke.
Started drifting past the beacon - on one drift about 50m off it, I was looking into the water and what do you think I saw?
Not just 1 Cobe - there were 6 of the little pranksters! Madly berlied up and dropped pillies amongst them for 2 strikes - both lost at the boat.
Spent quite some time swearing and beating my father with my 15-24kg live Fibre - felt a little better.
Cobes were hanging round but wouldn't take baits - was watching water and was suprised to see a big white Cobe about 9ft long swim straight towards my floating pillie - this Cobe had obviously had an accident when it was young and run into something cause its head was all flat and looked sorta like a hammer...
Oh crap.
Mr Big Nasty Hammerhead swam around the boat for about 5 mins and scared off Cobes, Macks and fishermen.
Couple more macks boated after his departure.
I can't stress enough how fantastic the conditions were - definately one of my best and most productive trips so far - and I swear, I will not rest until I have landed myself a Cobe (work and wife permitting).
An absolutely perfect day on the bay with only TWO other boats seen until 10am - I sh*t you not!
Left Bribie at 4.30am and headed out to my favourite beacon in the bay.
1st drop of a pillie and my father, who was out with me for the first time, hooks up to something fairly sizable.
Doesn't fight like a Mack so I'm thinking some Mr Sharky action but low and behold if it wasn't a Cobe - bastard!
After I finished cursing God and my Father for playing this "great" joke on me - I'm still waiting to bag my 1st Cobe - we drop again.
It's Mack time now at the Beacons! No spotties but lots of schoolies.
Livies were hard to get - and to get whole - jigged up a procession of Slimey Mackeral Heads with several bait jiggs destroyed. Gave that up as a bad joke.
Started drifting past the beacon - on one drift about 50m off it, I was looking into the water and what do you think I saw?
Not just 1 Cobe - there were 6 of the little pranksters! Madly berlied up and dropped pillies amongst them for 2 strikes - both lost at the boat.
Spent quite some time swearing and beating my father with my 15-24kg live Fibre - felt a little better.
Cobes were hanging round but wouldn't take baits - was watching water and was suprised to see a big white Cobe about 9ft long swim straight towards my floating pillie - this Cobe had obviously had an accident when it was young and run into something cause its head was all flat and looked sorta like a hammer...
Oh crap.
Mr Big Nasty Hammerhead swam around the boat for about 5 mins and scared off Cobes, Macks and fishermen.
Couple more macks boated after his departure.
I can't stress enough how fantastic the conditions were - definately one of my best and most productive trips so far - and I swear, I will not rest until I have landed myself a Cobe (work and wife permitting).