OFF BRIBIE TODAY

[nofrills]

gday all

left bribie at 0400 today,you gotta love that run out tide into a NW wind at skirmish point,really turns the place to crap.anyway headed out to the shipping channel and dropped the old vertical jig down the M1 marker,the place was crawling with school mackerel got 4 fish in 4 drops so drove away a little to try and get some livies up,first bait jig down came back without its sinker and 2 still breathing heads attached.next jig down was never to be seen again.
decided to head over to a nearby spoil ground to try for livies there.first jig down had a couple of good livies on it,got em up where i could see them coming,only to be smashed up buy more schoolies.
decided to forget about the livies and head up caloundra way for some trolling(which is what i was supposed to do first until i got sidetracked)
put in about three hours trolling for five strikes and two spaniards,gotta be happy with that.

SNAPPER you will be happy to know it just about glassed out around 0900 and i came home doing 25kn.i think i even heard you swearing from where i was.

anyway they are my first spanyids this season so im real happy to see them ;D

cheers scott

[Hutcho]

Nice fish Scott, sounds like today was just one of those days, and you were lucky enough to be out there!! Who needs livies when the mackeral are taking anything that moves?! :) Great results from your trolling at Caloundra - were you trolling in the shipping channel up there? Sounds as though the Spaniards have settled in for hopefully a bumper season.

Hutcho.

[nofrills]

yea hutcho not far from the channel.i had other plans for the livies but maybe next time ;D

[JB]

Ohh nice fish, now i'm really starting to get fired up to catch one or those spainards, hopefully the s/e kicks in down the goldy and we get a few start to show up.

JB

[jeffo]

what lures were they on scotty? and at what speed? or were they baits? did you try the 12 mile?

[snappa]

yes i was cursing very thing that moved >:(
the boss in fear of his life sent me home around 8 am :(
the dog didnt escape "scott" free either and took off to
settle in the neighbours garden fot the day :-X

but you will have to tell me what lures you are trolling ??? ???and were the liviies for large cobia :-X ;) ;D

:'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

[Sportfish_5]

Did you get a chance to run the sounder over that wreck off Caloundra ???

[dazza]

scotty,
i should have had that sickie :' :'(
things must have livened up a bit. janey and i were out sat am, and couldn't find a livey to save ourselves. got a live cuttlefish off of the "spoil ground" and turned it into a little kingie, otherwise quiet as.
might have to keep an eye on the weather next week
cheers
dazza

[nofrills]

sportfish
nah i didnt make it up that far ,i have put the mark in so hopefully later in the week.im thinkin with the current that belts out of there it might take a bit of searching.
snapper
there is quite a few tuna starting to zip around i reccon their great fun to live bait for if the macks shut down.
dazza
amazing whats on that spot eh.i pulled another cod about 3kg(released) on the bait jig yesterday :Pthis time last year is when the trench was holding all that bait so we'll have to have a look.
jeffo
if i told you dazza would come round and kill me :o. :-X

cheers scott

[DaneCross]

Great work Scott, I'd love one (let alone a couple) of those fish on board. Did you get one then troll back over the same area to get the other?? or were they from different spots? Were your other strikes bite-offs?
DC

[dazza]

scotty,
i recon a 24hr mystery virus is creeping up on me. you know the one- they tend to coincide with a weather forecast of 5-10knot winds ;D ;D i notice poor old snappa suffers the same affliction- poor fellow. cait is back doing a few shifts, so it will be dependant on bubby as well. maybe we could teach a 12 month old to rig a livey ;D ;D
jeffo,
with that big flash digitroll hanging off of the back of scotty's boat i recon a trolled livey would be a fair bet, trolled nice and slow. on the "bait ground" about this time last year we had a 55cm schoolie monstered by a spaniard so he may have been trolling a live schoolie :o :o.
gotta love this time of year
btw scotty,
how did the digitroll go.
cheers
dazza

[nofrills]

hey dc

they are a pretty boney fish around the jaw so if you dont get em hooked up in the corner or the tongue they are probably only hooked on buy a thin piece of skin which can easily pull out during the fight.

dazza
i havent fitted the digi troll yet,actually im gettin kinda use to having it in the bed each night ::)and you wouldnt take a beautiful thing like that on a stinkin fishin boat for a first date would ya :-*