Christmas came Early! Big Landbased Spanish on spin

[richos]

Myself and 2 mates decided to hit up a new ledge not far from the Gold coast. We arrived an hour before sunrise and were greeted with a big bright full moon and a larger than expected sea. Conditions were not looking good, but we started to rig up and wait for first light.

We started throwing our metal lures as far as we could and winding them back in at warp speed. We were rewarded with the best spin session any of us had experienced. The amount of tuna, queenies and mackerel was phenominal . We each landed our fair share of the above fish, but all of the bigger fish hookups were lost due to various reasons

The next morning we were out there early once again, and thinking it would be impossible to top the previous session. Well we were wrong, the fish gods had turned it up a notch and the action was unreal. Myself hooking 6 tuna in the first 7 casts. My mates having similar luck with tripple hookups common.

A few bluefin,macs, queenies and schoolies were caught, and we were all fished out and about to leave. As we were discussing if we should bail or not, i got a solid hit on a fast cranked metal! I saw a small flash just under the surface out wide, and i started pumping the fish in, thinking it was a schoolie. The fish then found a few more gears and screamed off south taking alot of line off a tight drag. We called it for a bluefin at first, but then started acting a little different.

The fish headed around a corner and i had to free spool it, with the line coming within inches of the rocks. When she started to come out the drag was upped again and i sculled it in pretty hard. We saw a bit long silver thing come around the corner and called it for a spanish. A few sketchy moments at the gaf and she was dragged up the rocks!

She weighed in at 20KG. A dream fish for me that ive spent alot of time trying to get over the last 2 months

Tackle used: Daiwa Emblem pro 5500 - 30lb Tufline - 60lb leader with no wire - deadzone 80 metal lure

Thanks for reading. I couldve rambled on for hours about this trip, but i tried to keep it short

[3rd degree]

Thats a cracking fish and land based too!

Cheers

James

[BAR UP]

Fantastic effort from the rocks, Peter.

[reel screamer]

Well done that sounds like an awesome experience

[frankgrimes]

Bloody GREAT Spaniard mate!! Fantastic effort LB!

Mick

[shin25]

awesome spannie mate congrats
have to catch up soon for a beer and a chin wag

Cheers Shin

[jim_bream]

Nice work in photoshop ;-)

[richos]

Cheers lads
Hey shin long time no see, will hafto catch up

JimBream: Background was actualy hand painted in MS Paint!

[lattic]

Excellent, well done

[Vindicator]

Well done richos, thats a cracker of a spanyid. Here we are burning up heaps of fuel in the search for them and you're doing it straight from the rocks.

Cheers
Kezza

[jarhead]

Top fish land based, well done.

Wal

[Pistol_P]

CRACKER......!!!!.....Thats a top xmas present mate.

Any blues..???

No wire....you a$$y bastard.... .....Just by chance is that the one Mario Gaffed..?

Pete

[Horse]

Thats a huge fish off the rocks. I have always looked for the bigger fish later in the season. Perhaps we should start now

[richos]

Cheers guys
Pete: Was quite a few blues around. Hooked alot blind casting, as they were working bait balls in close. Managed to site cast some big solo cruisers, but they were lost to pulled hooks/ Mr Bitey

[Kendall249]

well done Richo, you seems to have those rocks wired. I would love to be able spin up quality fish like those. Catching such fish from the rocks adds another element of excitement. Awesome effort keep the reports coming.

Cheers kendall