1770- Trout and Reds

[vertico]

Headed out from Round Hill creek on Saturday morning early to fish some ground south of Boult Reef that we had found on a few earlier trips. Anthony (Spot82) had his boat this time as he wanted to show his parents how good the fishing was up off 1770. Saturday started off slowly for us and by the end of the day we had only about 8 fish in the esky with 1 red and a few trout the standouts.

Day 2 involved more hard work with a good NWer blowing but we slowly built up the esky total to a slightly respectable 30 or so fish including 4 reds one which went around 12kg and 4 trout.

Day 3 was pretty much a troutathon where we hit some bommies south of boult reef and had the best session on trout ever. We landed about 10 trout in 30 minutes just on sun up.

Was testing some new colour flys out this trip and a new colour really turned it on for the trout. Tested out a mono combo this weekend, was basically a 3-5kg ugly stick rod with a big abu overhead loaded with 30lb platypus platinum. Couldn’t believe the fish I was knocking over with this combo with all the big trout and the big reds falling for it. Also landed 2 5 foot reef sharks on it, I jammed the rod in the holder cos I got sick of fighting the sharks at one stage.

All fish were caught on PEtackle flys in the hussar, slimey and new colour “Guthook” managed to just make our bag of 40 fish with a few hussar thrown in.

Till next trip.

[kitty_cat]

very nice sean had a look at the pe tackle over at micks house definatly looks like the fish love em

wayne

[perko]

Well done again Sean. I hope to get a trip in over the up coming long weekends. Did you camp at Fitzroy? I have heard the trout have been going off lately.

[vertico]

1 night @ fitzroy and 1 night braving the elements outside the reef!

[bondy99]

Vertico,

Mate, how good is that!!!

Well done, thanks for letting us know about the gear you was using. What is the best time of year to search and get these beauties?

Cheers, Peter

[vertico]

Mate from what Ive seen in my short time catching reds and from what Ive heard October November is the go for reds.

[bondy99]

Mate from what Ive seen in my short time catching reds and from what Ive heard October November is the go for reds.

Thanks mate, I'll keep it in mind.

Happy fishing

[marto78]

Well done Sean and Anthony that first red is a stonker mate!
Are you sure thats a 3 - 5kg rod loaded up with a 5ft shark thats deffinetly punching above its weight division. :cool:
Marto

[Gazza.Boyne]

Some nice fish there, the weather looked pretty nice.

Did you spend the nights in Fitzroy lagoon

Cheers
Gazza

[vertico]

2 x 5 foot reef sharks were knocked over on that 3-5kg ugly stick mate as well!
strong little rods those ugly sticks

[-spiro-]

Nice fish Seanó any more pic's? Did you's make a vid this time?

[jtpython]

Mate nice work again those trout are the top stuff. Nice Thumper red to top

JT

[outwide1]

Nice stuff sean,i fished DI on saturday with Bill Corten and in total caught 10 different species.Filled the boxes with some exceptionaly good parrot,red throat,coranation trout and the list goes on.And to top it off reds to 11kg.I found the pe fly good but may need to trim them as they get tangled easily.Keep an eye out for this coming months bush and beach.
Welldone mate,MICK.

[aerordauto]

hello sean that is a great effort on light gear, r u running leader and if so how long, what lb and is it a wind on or swivel.?
cheers mark

[baitable]

goodo sean, we fished the 90 meter mark and got some interesting species... still working on the reds though....