We headed of on our company fishing trip out of Noosa on Saturday. With a reasonable forecast everyone was in high spirits heading to Noosa on a charted bus. On our way up we decided to have a wager on the biggest fish caught by throwing in $5 each for a total of $130 prize moneyThere was a bit of debate over how do you determine the biggest fish with so many different species on offer? So in the end it was decided it would be the biggest squire/snapper that would take the cash.
Getting into Noosa we encountered some light showers which was an omen for the day aheadWe loaded the two boats at the harbor and the banter started between the two boats on who was going catch the prize snapper. We left the harbor at about 8am up the river and the guys were already into the beer. I hung back on cracking my first beer as it was blowing 15knts already. I suggested to the guys if they hadn’t had brekkie a few cans before we got out there was not a good idea which fell on deaf ears and would come back to bite them in the ar$$se later
Safely over the bar we motored to our destination about 45mins away east of Noosa. It was apparent after getting over the bar there was no way we be going towards Double Island Point like we did last year because conditions were rough. After anchoring at our first spot we had 4 blokes go over the side screaming “RALPH” yep the ones into the beer
We probably tried about 8 – 10 different spots in ordinary conditions with a few keepers coming on board at each spot. We managed 18 keepers on our boat with my personal tally being 2 tuskies, 3 sweetlip, one big squire and my first dolphin fish. I managed to latch onto an absolute arm buster towards the end of the day which the deckie was calling as a big cod. This thing was not giving in I’d take back about 3 meters and it would take two back with brute force. My 15kg-24kg Livefibre was loaded to the max and wasn’t game to lock up the drag due to the brute force this thing possessed. After an epic struggle and my arms burning we finally got to see what it was, an 8 foot shark of some description which finally bit through the line while still about 4ft under the surface. A lot of pain for nothing !The deckie changed my rig over to a two hook snood with a ball sinker early in the day which I’m now a fan of rather than the traditional dropper rig.
The highlight of the day on our boat was 10mins of fun when a school of Dolphin fish came out to play smashing dropperbaits, floating pillies and slugs cast at them. There were a heap of small ones with a few bigger models amongst them and we kept about 5 of them. The other boat only managed 10 keepers with the highlight being a massive greasy cod which was to big to keep so with a few pics alongside the boat before deflating the swim bladder and sending it on its way.
As it turned out the other boat didn’t land a keeper squire/snapper and I had the biggest of the two on our boat ! U buety $130 to me !
An ordinary day on the water blowing 20kts with a few fish compared to last years 5knt winds and plenty of fish but that’s fishing and there might be a few not keen to go again next year.
A few piccies of the trip.
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Originally Posted by murf
