Hi Guy's
What near perfect weather this weekend has been. Have been waiting many months now to take the big longboat for a run to Centerpede reef (91kms from the ramp). Arrived at 4.30am Saturday morning to secure a park at our undersized facility to find only 6 parks left. Launched and headed out to our mark in perfect glass sea's. Arrived about 7am with only one other boat on site. Water was very clear, with no swell and no wind, was a hot day. Drifted and fished around many bommies for half a dozen trout and a few red throats. Plenty of live bait around, but no surface action to be seen all day. Threw poppers-nothing, trolled - zilch. Night anchored on a mark near the reef in about 40m. Caught plenty of small stuff and a few more red throats. Cooked a few steaks, had a few beers and called it a night. Up at 5am, boiling a brew and discussing our options for the day. Decided to fish here where we were for an hour, have some brecky and start our moves. Well, we started to get some trout, then some more trout and red throats, and before we knew it it was 9am. As the hot bite slowed, we decided to have a feed, and as I had a big livey out swimming the last few hours with not a touch, decided to drop it 6ft off the bottom hoping for a nice fat cod. It was only down about ten minutes when this horse of a trout decided to woof it. Did it give me some curry. Anyway we pulled it into the boat for a photo and quickly released it (after piecing it's air bladder) and watched it swim strongly back into the depths. No weight, but was 120cm.One of the biggest I have seen and a PB for me. We continued to fish for trout and by about midday we had reached our bag limit.
Cleaned up and headed home in still great conditions. The whole weekend was a pearler. Here is a pic of the horse......I mean trout.
Cheers
Lee
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