Hi All,
Had been working pretty hard fixing the cruiser gearbox friday, saturday and sunday til lunchtime. After this went inside to see forecast and made the call to give it a shot. Couldn't get a crew member on short notice so it was just myself and the father in law. Wind dropped off by late arvo so had a feed of lamb shanks and headed for scarborough. Flew accross the bay in the Yalta 21footer and got to spitfire which was flat as, made the call and headed to wide caloundra and arrived at 8pm after leaving scarborough at 6:30. First half hour was pretty quite with nothing to write home about. Parked up and slept thru a bit of chop all night off about 3/4 of a metre on a 1.5m swell so the red girl was rocking a bit but not that uncomfortable. Woke up at 4 and first dropped bought a 450 pearly and then the next 2 hours we bagged out on snapper and pearlies. 6 of the 10 snapper were 4 or 5 kilos and majority of the fish were caught on small ball sinker and gangs. Paternosta were also working well but the ball sinker rig was the go. Come 9 o'clock we started cleaning fish with the rods still out, then the big girls started sniffing around and they weren't eating the pillies and squid. We would hook what seemed an undersized pearly and would get up 10 metres and then get hammered, bought a couple of small pearlies up missing scales and fins but the big elusive one was unstoppable even with the 80lb braid. Gave it an hour trying to get the big brute but all that enventuated was losing 200foot of braid and $20 worth of gangs. Punched back to spitfire in 90 mins and then flew across the bay in millpond conditions with approximately 100 boats in small areas. All in all a great trip and it is great to see some snapper out wide. Plenty of undersized ones as well..... also managed a 440mm red emperor.... he won't be so lucky if I catch him again I reckon... so close...... no photos but when I work out how to do it I'll start postin pics, cheers
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