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    Better late than never

    decided to give it another crack for some cobes again as the weather was supposed to be fishable, left spiniker at day break and made our way out to do some bait gathering and with a few full strings of yakkas we were off fishing,

    tried a few spots all day getting busted and pulling XOS cod, with nothing but rubbish being caught all day we went to check out a spot and came across a good show where we pulled 25 fish in 45mins

    leaving soon after with a bag of pearlies and some snapper, and some mixed reef shit, ended up keeping one estury cod from about the 10 caught, this one was the smallest at 8kg, the rest were all 25kg plus with the biggest a little over 55kg, but with a good solid feed we left them chewing and headed for home at a beautiful cruise speed of 22knots..

    man some of those swell i saw today i recun you could have surfed all the way home, some beauties out there at the moment.

    but still no cobes to be seen, soooon.

    cheers justin

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    Re: Better late than never

    nice fish thats some big cod,
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    Re: Better late than never

    Well done Justin. Nice feed there, and good on you for releasing those big Cod.

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    Re: Better late than never

    Bit of grease for the new boat eh Justin.....

    Pete

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    Re: Better late than never

    Good stuff Justin ......... Weather was the better side of sloppy up our way but seen the swells on the news tonight
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    Re: Better late than never

    Great haul ,nice to see your not shy showing your cods.Jim
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    Nice mate. Cobes cobes cobes. Soon. That top snap looks allright. Did you head over the banks today? Would have been hairy.

    Cheers
    Scott

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    Re: Better late than never

    Better getting cod than sfa mate. I ain't heard much in the cobe deparment as of yet.
    planning the next onslaught 6.5m Profish
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    Re: Better late than never

    nice catch, one of the local pro boats up here nearly lost the lot whilst attempting a bar crossing at low tide this arvo, He must have tried three times to cross it before he finally came stuck when his motor stalled after his boat came down tail first. lucily the coast guard was within 5 minutes away to pull his mate out of the water who got thrown out of the boat. scary shit

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    Re: Better late than never

    Well done Justin, I thought the swell might have been a bit " how ya goin' ".
    Tim

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    Re: Better late than never

    Hi Justin,

    I heard you out there yesterday. I decided to stay in the Bay and play with small whiptails.

    Great looking Fish. Good to see you using ICE in your esky.

    Frank OO

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    Re: Better late than never

    thanks guys

    pete yeah we greased the boat more than 14 times

    scott the trip across the banks was like crossing the wide bay bar right up the guts but side on, was pretty hairy, had waves curling at about 2m moments beside the boat my eyes were like golf balls, i had to run with it for a while before i got to the deeper shit.

    tim im glad i got livebait first because i would have shit myself if those waves broke over the boat. like you say live bait live fish.

    frank yeah ice is the key most of it was at the bottom as the fish all come pretty quick and were thrown in i usually take half dozen bottles and half dozen 4l blocks, cleaning the fish is made easy that way.

    cheers justin

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    Re: Better late than never

    chris have heard couple of reports for mates fishing out of mooloolaba, but yeah real slow had one chance yesterday but busted at the hook so, i know where theres a good shot next weekend now, we only ended up getting the fish in an hour after searching.

    justin

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    Re: Better late than never

    Some nice cod and squires there bloke i had a quick look at the wide bay today
    and it was a wipe out. Ya did not bad for the conditions

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    nice cod mate welldone
    where are the cobes
    sean

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