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Troy (Blue_mako) and I fished Stradbroke Island for the first time over the last few days.
The Weather was shocking but we were eventually rewarded with some decent land based fish. We were staying in amity point and caught a School Mackeral each on our first time slugging, it was great as we weren't really expecting much. That was the first day and the rest of the trip was ruined by bad weather including heavy winds and rain. This didn't stop us fishing however, it just altered our results! For the next few days we caught loads of pike, a few bream, solo grassy and a big dirty stingray(only thing caught on bait, live pike).
This brings me to the last day where we had a great time catching 3 different species of Trevally including Big Eyes, Goldens and 1 nice Diamond Trevally. Also caught 3 squire and 1 nice breambo. Most of the fish were caught on 3" Berkley power minnows with 1/8th- 3/8th TT and Decoy Jigheads to a leader of 6-10lb(different brands) to 4 and 6lb fireline. Troy was using his G.Loomis Dropshot and I was using my Gl2. Reels were Sols and symetres. The trevs were caught around Dunwich.
Simple Retrieve of casting to a likely looking spot and waiting for the sp to hit the bottom, once it hits the bottom , 2 quick snaps of the wrist then wait for sp to hit the bottom again, leave it on the bottom for 5 seconds then repeat.
The end tally was:
4 Golden Trevally
6 Big eyes
1 Diamond Trevally
1 Bream(31cm FL)
1 Flattie (45cm)
The mackeral were on the 1st day and the trevally on the last as the weather inbetween was really really bad.
Last pics from the trip. Ray was caught off a private jetty on a live pike, took ages to get in even with 35lb fire line. He would just stick to the bottom and I would have to reef him up.
Excellent report. Good to see land based results on the placcies. I tried using plastics at Fraser last year but with so many tailor about they were chopping the placcies up too fast which was making it too expensive to use them so I resorted to the pillies. Much cheaper in the end. Shame the weather spoiled it a bit for you guys but you did what any keen fisho would have done and just fished on regardless and judging by the photos it paid dividends in the end. Love those Diamond trevs. Very pretty fish. Well done!
Great report guys, looks like you had some fun over there. Never been there myself but have been told that it can have some realy good sessions at times.
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Looks like you did alright even with the sh*thouse weather. 
