After a two mth lay off due to the birth of my second child (first son),thought it was time to blow some cobwebbs from the outboard. After doing the ring around on Saturday night the only taker was my brother who gets sea sick! I thinks well if he is keen at least an extra set of hands at the ramp would be handy. Left Bribie at 10am and decided to head straight out to wide cal wasn't the best of rides going into an easterly swell. Stopped at the beacon to jigg lives, did see some surface activity but did not stop to fish. First mark and the brother pulls up a flathead and squire on a bottom basher, before spewing his guts up then staggering into sick bay,
which left me the whole back of the boat. Lots of small pp & hussar,cod etc were caught on all the marks I tried. Moved closer to the cape to a pearly ledge in 100m and managed to put some fish in the esky and my bro gets a second wind. By this stage time was getting on so we headed to a spot which has been kind in the past. Set the boat up for the first drift and deployed live bait, floaters plus one bottom basher which got smashed before hitting bottom, after a 10min tug of war up pops a pb snapper.
This is when I remembered that I had left the camera at home.
Lucky I had my mobile. Did one more drift for nothing and noticing that the sun was going down, we made a dash for the close grounds were I pulled up on a favourite mark put the nose into the wind, tossed out the anchore and hoped for the best and managed to fluked the perfect position. A whale passed within meters of the boat and unbelieviably breached 6 times as it headed south. Started to burley with some prawn shells and old bait the next hour was absolute mahaem with eight snapper and a spangled plus a big yellow tail that took the last live bait and just about turned my poor old brother inside out. After that without another boat in sight the call was made so we iced the fish and enjoyed a full throttle run home in in the dark. It sure was a memorable day. Sorry not photos of the catch as I gave my brother most of the fish at the ramp but here is the big snapper which went 11.1kg.
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! Congrats on a stonker PB – LEGEND!
