Great weather and a great day on the water.
It all started with Horseboy arriving at my place early, loaded the boat with his gear and shoved some brekky down the throat. Got to the ramp, launched and headed out, decent weather on the bay allowed us a quick exit from Cleveland Bay. Just over an hour later we were sitting at My faviourite wreck again. Anchor down and we get ready to fish.
I had 2 new rigs to try out, a Tyrnos 20 2 speed and a secondhand 925A Alvey Snapper reel. The Tyrnos didn't get used here as I wanted to see how the alvey would go cranking fish off the wreck (Oh Yeah). Baits went down and we got some really good enquiries, but as it was early and our reflexes were a little slow, we missed them. Rebaited and down again, I get a good strike and up comes a nice Nannygai, striaght into the esky, baited hook straight down again.
About 3 minutes go by and BANG, I have another good strike, highsticking the rod I begin to crantk up on the Alvey, hand slip and the reel starts to spin back down, grabing it quickly again I started to crank up and the 15kg rod has an almight bend in it. Its a pretty quick fight to the surface and up comes my very first Cobia, Big sucker. Horseboy gaffes him and he is in the boat, all 10.5kg of him. Bleed him and into the kill tank he goes. Shortly after that, Horseboy hooks up and brings in another Cobia, a little smaller but still nice fish. We still got a few more bites but nothing really good, so we head out to Keeper Reef.
Trolling Mack Alley and Horseboy had his Qantas special out and I had my trusty XRAP 30. I had 2 strikes and no hookups, Horseboy on the other hand had 4 strikes and 3 good Spaniards into the boat. All gave excellent fights, but were no worries for the Wade. After this we dropped the reef pick down and sat on a couple of trout marks. Poor old Wade was getting really good strikes and was being bricked by some big boofer trout. I on the other hand with the trusty Alvey had 2 nice Coral Trout in the boat during our bottom bashing session. We stayed in the area for a little while, but noticed the swell and wind slowly coming up, so we pulled the pick and headed off home. We sat on a steady 30 kts all the way back to Townsville. cleaned the boat, filleted the fish and now suitably knackered after an excellent day on the water.
Had a ball!!!!
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You guys going out during the week make me sick.................
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