Nice parrot and snapps on "Alexander"

[dayoo]

Headed out on "Alexander" yesterday morning from Mooloolaba with 4 on board including the skipper Pepi, his brother Sasho, me and Rob the braid fanatic. Slightly choppy conditions early reduced the cruising out speed to 33 knots. Headed out wide to a mark in 100 metres which the skipper was keen to try.

One short drift over the mark produced 3 good sized parrot so we dropped anchour. Wind and current made it difficult to fish as lines went towards the bow instead of straight out the back. Hung on this mark for 3 hours for only 4 snapper and 6 parrot. The fish were not biting and we found out why when a monster tiger shark about 12 foot followed up a snapper and then began circling the boat.

The buggar would not leave despite being hooked twice so we had to move back in to one of our productive marks in 70 metres.

Fishing was slow at first but around 3pm the bite picked up and we ended up with a good feed of snapper, a good pearlie and a lot of big tuskies.

Three of us used 40 lb mono and Rob was using braid with 5 metres of flurocarbon leader. The braid only caught 3 fish and we kept telling Rob to switch to mono as the fish were not biting properly.
When the bite is like this you can feel the bites better on braid but the fish can also feel you on the other end. Mono = 36 fish Braid = 3 fish.

We headed back to Mooloolaba in near calm conditions cruising at 50 knots with me resting in my bean bag at the back of the boat.

We gave Rob an equal share of the catch in exchange for a promise to use mono on his next trip,

A few pics are attached.

Cheers
Barry

[No Fear]

Nice catch and good report!! Just pity the poor bloke or blokes that have to clean those parrot.........

[Fish_gutz]

Thanks for the report, a tasty bag of fish there.

Cheers Andrew

[dayoo]

Nice catch and good report!! Just pity the poor bloke or blokes that have to clean those parrot.........

No trouble with tuskies. Just scale and fillet leaving the guts and internal organs on the frame or better still, just fillet starting at the head and run the knife back up the fillet removing the skin with scales attached.

Cheers
Barry

[legsy11]

keeps ya coming back hey mate,great little session mate.

[Chris_2184]

Headed out on "Alexander" yesterday morning from Mooloolaba with 4 on board including the skipper Pepi, his brother Sasho, me and Rob the braid fanatic. Slightly choppy conditions early reduced the cruising out speed to 33 knots. Headed out wide to a mark in 100 metres which the skipper was keen to try.

One short drift over the mark produced 3 good sized parrot so we dropped anchour. Wind and current made it difficult to fish as lines went towards the bow instead of straight out the back. Hung on this mark for 3 hours for only 4 snapper and 6 parrot. The fish were not biting and we found out why when a monster tiger shark about 12 foot followed up a snapper and then began circling the boat.

The buggar would not leave despite being hooked twice so we had to move back in to one of our productive marks in 70 metres.

Fishing was slow at first but around 3pm the bite picked up and we ended up with a good feed of snapper, a good pearlie and a lot of big tuskies.

Three of us used 40 lb mono and Rob was using braid with 5 metres of flurocarbon leader. The braid only caught 3 fish and we kept telling Rob to switch to mono as the fish were not biting properly.
When the bite is like this you can feel the bites better on braid but the fish can also feel you on the other end. Mono = 36 fish Braid = 3 fish.

We headed back to Mooloolaba in near calm conditions cruising at 50 knots with me resting in my bean bag at the back of the boat.

We gave Rob an equal share of the catch in exchange for a promise to use mono on his next trip,

A few pics are attached.

Cheers
Barry

were they meant to be km/h?? coz 33 knots seems pretty damn fast in choppy conditions maybe I'm wrong

nice fish tho

cheers

[Greg P]

Barry - nice feed there mate. I would take the parrot and pearlies over the snaps any day.

Chris - you need to see the boat first - it may be knots as the thing is a weapon.

[wags on the water]

Thanks for sharing (once again) Barry. There certainly are some quality Tuskies in those pics and it's good to see the Snapps are increasing in size and numbers since my last trip out wide.

Cheers,
Wags

[-spiro-]

Bazza you need a lessen in useing braid? I don't seem to have much trouble with ratio's against a mono donga. I anything its above.........
Anyways good catch and report..

[dayoo]

were they meant to be km/h?? coz 33 knots seems pretty damn fast in choppy conditions maybe I'm wrong

nice fish tho

cheers

Mate,

65km/h out and about 95km/h back. Boat has twin 250 suzukies.

Cheers
Barry

[dayoo]

Bazza you need a lessen in useing braid? I don't seem to have much trouble with ratio's against a mono donga. I anything its above.........
Anyways good catch and report..

Chris,

I don't need any lessons in useing braid but Rob does.

We were using a snood rig with a 6 ball on top of the hooks and 40lb platypus platinum main line plus the 70lb pretest green leader (just in case a solid red was around). No current at the 70 metre mark.

Cheers
Barry

[skipalong]

some top fish barry what was the run like down that area?

justin

[dayoo]

some top fish barry what was the run like down that area?

justin

Justin,

A little run at the 100 metre mark but at the 70 metre mark we were going straight down with 6 to 8 ball sinkers.

Cheers
Barry

[jtpython]

Thats a great feed there guys love them tuskie's
Great pics and someone should wake that fella up at the back there
LOL
JT

[NIZ180]

Awesome report, what sort of boat is that? must be a beast with 500hp on the back!!!