Reply With Quotetop going anthony lovely bag of fish, i bet you were pissed with the shark taking up fishing time.
justin
After the weather not playing the game last week and it looking like a pearler for last Friday it was decided to organise a trip over breaksea spit. Arrived in Hervey Bay on thurs arvo and got the boat ready and had a a couple of hours sleep before leaving for the harbour at 3.30am.
Exited the harbour at 3am and started on the jpurney north, stopped off at a livie spot near rooneys where we can get yakkas in the dark and proceeded to get some good livies although you only get them one at a time a night so it makes for an arduous process. Continued on and made it to the 4 mile crossing around 6.45am with two other boats about to cross as well. Bit of swell but the crossing was one of the best i have done across any bar, getting out the other side we were greated with a 1-2m swell and water which resembled an oil slick!
Fished about 6 or 7 different marks with most only firing for very short periods or on very small parts of the drifts. First mark resulted in many bust ups so after i got dusted twice on 80lb braid with 120lb leader the deckwinch came out. Got some nice spangles, parrot and red throats when you could get through the ambos and kingies on this particular bombie. One of my ambos was followed up by a sizable shark which not much later took the tal end of Troy's Spangle as pictured below, although what was left still would have gone atleast 4kg! Troy was mucking around when his rod had a few bumps so i grab it and hook the fish, start winding but it just feels like a dead weight with the boys giving me crap about having a big piece of bottom, anyway we finally see colour, shark, but it is coming straight up in the water coloumn as if it was dead or asleep, no fight at all, got some pics of this beast which was a solid 3.5-4m specimen and then all of a sudden mr teeth decides to wake up and disappear back to the deep busting off in the process!
Fished some other spots with variety of reefies being landed but none of the reds we were after. We would have easily lost 30 good fish for the day with lost of bust ups on good fish. One in particular i had a butterflied hussar down on the winch and had a solid fish nearly to the boat, most likely a red given the bait and the country and fact we have got reds there before only to have troy hook onto a kingy which went around my line and troy being a genius not letting his braid go slack let it cut through the 200lb pound mono like a hot knife through butter, little to say he kept getting reminded about that for the rest of the trip!
Made it back to Urangan at 7.15pm well and truely buggered after a very long day, so glad it was like a sheet of glass all trip and could easily cruise on 50kph.
Parents had also went and put the pots in over at fraser in one of the creeks on friday morning, checked them saturday and sunday and ended up with 20 monster muddies to top off the weekend
Some pics below
Anthony
top going anthony lovely bag of fish, i bet you were pissed with the shark taking up fishing time.
justin
mate great mix on the fish and some cracker looking muddies there, the one in the front looks a big crab..cheers rosco
Fish and crab---what a good feast
planning the next onslaught 6.5m Profish
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Seriously got it to the boat in about 5mins, tell you though my back was killing after pulling that much dead weight up out of 60m of water!!!Originally Posted by skipalong
It did not fight one bit, not even a kick of the tail, was quite surreal when it came to the boat.
The hose nozel gives you an idea of the size of the muddies, most of them are very decent size! the one at the back is legal and looks well under compared to the othersHad a big feast of muddies, prawns and scallops on sunday for lunch followed by muddy sangas for lunch today! Wonder what the rich ppl are eating
Water looks beautiful and clear guys. Great fishing still the same thou hey
JT
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There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot
I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges
Up here we Use Hussar as baits for real RED FISHS (SHSIIFDER)
Ripper feed of muddies mate haven't seen crabs like that in ages. Sweet feed of fish to go with it.
Great report - fine catch - what a nice feed of muddies - I have been trying to take my parents crabbing but they wont get in the pots........Geeb
Haha Geeb you funny bastard!
Water was near perfect, it wasso hard to get photos cause it was slightly overcast and the water was like an oil slick and reflecting so much light.
Now just need to find those reds!
Good to see you getting a few Anthony with great conditions also. Pitty about the reds mate but sooner or later you will get among them. Going by the species you mentioned you must have been fishing some very rough country. Did you try fishing some smaller reefs? How was the current?
Greg
Mate ive been getting smashed up just the same as you up at 1770. 150lb wont stop em and ive been lead to believe they are sleeper sharks.
A mate of mine used to pro fish off frazer years ago and reckons the only thing that will stop em is wire trace a metre long coz they take you to the bottom and rolll till they bust you off. And they are huge!!
Ive pulled some leopard sharks up there lately about say 50kg but those other things must be in the 100's. A locked up Reefqueen doesnt even look like stoppin them. One would like to believe they are huge reds tho!
Barely any current but we were fishing within 10km of breaksea spit for the day, didn't venture out wider. Country wasn't all that rough, mainly plateau type rises in the bottom which come from 50-55m up to 35-45m.
That is really only the first time i have fished the area in our boat so didn't have many marks to check out, I know what you mean greg but don't have any marks for the rubbly stuff at the momentKeep exploring i guess...
We were getting the fish off the bottom but line was rubbing through between the snell rigs, breaking at knots, just clean breaking, and a few times fish getting us to the bottom again. As well as that the fight is very different to any shark i have ever caught, but hey who knows, could be anything really.....Mate ive been getting smashed up just the same as you up at 1770. 150lb wont stop em and ive been lead to believe they are sleeper sharks.
A mate of mine used to pro fish off frazer years ago and reckons the only thing that will stop em is wire trace a metre long coz they take you to the bottom and rolll till they bust you off. And they are huge!!
Ive pulled some leopard sharks up there lately about say 50kg but those other things must be in the 100's. A locked up Reefqueen doesnt even look like stoppin them. One would like to believe they are huge reds tho!
Ye mate some of them youd get say say 3 metres up some half way up then theyd hammer ya. Even just to get a look at them would be good. Some fish arent meant to come to the surface. Sure keeps you interested!!
Good one. I'd gladly chip in towards fuel if someone can offer me a fishing trip out there.
Peter
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