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
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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. 
Had 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 
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Keep exploring i guess...
