snappathon off moreton sat 1/10/11

[rosco1974]

had an early start sat leavin manly for a quick fish b4 the blow came in,left the marina around 4.30 and steamed across a near glassed out bay and through the bar reasonably flat and headed out to a mark i fished the week b4.had the lines in the water by 20 past 5.had plans of floatlining all day and this is the way we fished.used a 2 hook snelled rig with 5/0 mustard big gun hooks and my favorite float line sinker the 1ounce glow egg dayoo special .the 1st drift seen 3 squire hit the box.kept 2 in the livie tank as where around 38cm which we released unharmed a bit later due to upgrding them.over the next couple of drifts we bagged out with 12 squiry snapps and a lonesome tuskie.size ranging from low 40's to my pb snapp of 79cm.was a great day out with near glassed out conditions offshore.had a fair bit of current running out there.back in by 10.30.deffinatly getting some mojo now again offshore,
cheers rosco

[netmaker]

nice bag of fish rosco and congrats on the pb.
cheers
davo

[Bull]

Well done Rosco great to see you get a nice feed of snapper and congratulations on the pb
cheers Brett

[Horse]

Well done again Rosco.Congratulations on the new PB

[justinsmith]

Nice work mate.... I hear you stole my deckie LOL.....

[FisHard]

Nice work. You wouldn't have wanted to be out that afternoon! It howled

[rosco1974]

yeah justin.was a good day out,will have to take you for a run with shano,i also converted him to a nice light spin rod and reel combo for floatlining.u should of come out mate bloody great conditions.
fishard it sure did blow its butt off.when we got back to the marina u could feel the breeze pick up while i was washing the boat down

[hookinin]

Nice bag of snaps Rosco sounds like your getting quite a bit of use out of that cat of late.
Gaven

[cobiaman]

Nice bag of snaps rosco!

[rosco1974]

yeah gaven, a fair bit of use..least where gettin some half decent weater so i can use it now afer the windy winter we had

[TimD]

Nice Snapper there rosco, i heard a rumour that you got them all on plastics


cheers tim

[thelump]

Nice work on the snaps mate. So much for them not biting on a low barometer. I checked in the morning and it was down to 1005!! About what size does the 1oz egg sinker equate to in a ball sinker? No.6 or 7 maybe??

[Wahoo73]

Thanks for the report. Mate i think i saw you head past us on Sat morn out there, we were a Hooker WRC drifting south of hutchies?

We didnt do too well, in fact that will be the third trip i havent caught any decent keepers in this area. Im fishing around 25m depth drifting and using flesh bait with bottom rigs, on the same spots as last year - where i did very well. Any advice about how to fish differently would be appreciated (apart from find new spots!) - deeper, anchored or floatlining??? Anyone finding this area hard to bottom fish of late??

We left too late and got totally slammed about half way across the bay by the westerly.

Cheers

[honda900]

Nice work Rosco, persistence pays off.

Regards
HOnda.

[fisho8]

Nice lot of Snapper there Rosco gotta be happy with that lot mate and congrats on the new PB.