Reply With QuoteGood haul mate. I have caught a few frying pan snapper before myself but am unsure of the legal size limit. What is it?
Headed out to one of our favourite marks 40 odd mile out from Townsville late Friday night, actually by the time I dragged my young fella (Keiran) out of bed, picked up fellow Ausfisher Shaneoss, aka "The Nannigai Whipsperer" and fueled up it was around 1am by the time we got to the ramp.
We were met by pretty much perfect condition in the bay, which made for a nice relaxing trip.
We arrived at our mark around 3am, first drift over and 2 large mouth hit the deck, so we went back and dropped the pick. Things slowed up a little, by sun up we had half a dozen large mouth onboard.
Ducked over to the reef and trolled around for bit, released 2 undersized Spaniards, and landed 1/2 of another thanks to a dirty Noah.
Bottom bashed for a bit and things were really slow, so we headed back.
Dropped off at the Bomber Shoals and sat there for an hour or so with nothing onboard worth reporting.
Cheers,
Lee
Last edited by leezor; 17-05-2008 at 08:46 PM.
Good haul mate. I have caught a few frying pan snapper before myself but am unsure of the legal size limit. What is it?
Hi Warti, minimum size limit for this species is 25cm and bag limit of 5, not a bad chew either.Originally Posted by warti
Cheers,
Lee
those nanis look the goods well done
Gotta be happy to finally blood the boat properly mate.
Good stuff lee... good to finally see a report from you again.
What size where those large mouth's?
we headed out sat morning and came home sat night around midnight for a good feed of fish also.
Will post a full report later.
So were you happy with the overall setup of the boat?
Cheers
Josh
Some nice nannies there Lee. Did the young fella catch that one hes holding up? Well done to him. Nice haul all round, looked like conditions were tops.
Cheers
Kezza
Josh, we didnt weigh them but the smallest of them was around 6-7kgs the larger ones closer to 10. Am happy with the boat, just need to get a few creature comforts happening like a windlass and I will be setHave a new fibreglass bait board with a sink on its way which I will plumb into the deck wash which will also make life easy. Looking forward to reading your report mate.
Kezza, the young fella landed one though not sure which it was as they all got tossed in the ice box and mixed up. It was his first Red and I think he may have caught the bug, asked me this morning when are we going again
Last edited by leezor; 18-05-2008 at 02:40 PM.
Bugger it! Def should have gone out when you did mate, next time, the crew will have to choose, golf or fishing, not missing another day like that!!!!!!
I thought the legal size for snapper was 35cm?
These are a different species than what you blokes get in the south mate, these fish fall in the "Tropical Snapper and Sea Perch" catagory.
Cheers,
Lee
I've never seen those snapper before,Lee...
looks like the nannigai whisperer produced the goods with a few quality nannies there.
Bit dissapointed that we didnt land a few more, but we did get there a little later than originaly planned and once the moon went down they went off the chew.
Long Spined Snapper, also called Frying Pan Bream;
http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/sho...d.php?t=128904
http://www.fish.gov.au/fishnames/fishnames.php?pid=2799
Cheers
Dave
Nannigai Whisperer eh? Need to whisper on Lee's boat. He is forever sleeping. The fishing wasnt exactly hot, but with weather like that, fish are just a bonus. I've never fished in a boat that has af many comfy fishing positions as the Seaswirl. Actually, i had to try and make myself uncomfortable to stay awake form time to time.
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