WARNING.....The following thread does not contain material that relates to Campbell Newman, government job cuts or anything political what so ever.I don't know how much my boat weighs on the trailer be it on the car or off.The photos contained within are not from a previous trip, we did catch a pearl perch but I couldn't find a school that was 30m thick and we went with a fiberglass and a plate boat and none of the occupants of either boat came home with a broken back.
With the weather looking good for a few days the call was made to head up to 1770 as a bit of a precursor to the M&G.Tangles was already on holidays up at 1770 so myself and Fishfeeder left Brisbane at 9:30pm Tuesday night and hit the road to meet 2IC, Tropicrows and BurleyGU at Gympie.A pretty uneventful drive up got us to Agnes at 5:30 in the morning to grab some fuel, ice and our third crew member Tangles.
Heaps of livies on the bait grounds so the tanks were stuffed and we headed to Lady Musgrave.Fished the shallows on the southern end of the reef for a couple of fish before we headed North up towards Fitzroy following the 65-80metre line marking some good country and having a few drifts over each new spot.Heaps of activity on the sounder but we found it hard to get the fish to bite so throughout the day they were coming over the side in dribs and drabs but we did manage to marks some nice features on the bottom which we will be fishing in a couple of weeks time as this was kind of the aim for this trip....a bit of ground work before the big one in September.
The end of the first day saw both boats up around One Tree Island where we anchored up in 65m of water for the night while Team Beeracuda went in closer to Fitzroy for the night.With big tides during the night the current was absolutely raging making it very hard to keep a pound of lead on the bottom so after pulling a couple of Aj's aboard, a nice hot feed and a bit of comical banter on the radio we decided to grab a few hours of shut eye.The wind picked up during the night which made it very uncomfortable to sleep amongst the white caps (actually....one of us didn't seem to struggle on the sleep department) so a bit red eyed and tired we rose at 3:30 on Wednesday morning for a quick cup of coffee and a feed which allowed us to start fishing just before sun up while Team Beeracuda were still tucked up all nice and warm in their fart sacks.
We fished some good ground N, NE or Fitzroy for a bit more success than the first day and as it always is when the fishing is starting to hot up time went really quick and before we knew it the clock was as noon and it was time to start making our way back in.We fished some ground around the shallows near Fitzroy on the way in for bits and pieces before I just threw all the bait overboard to signal the end of fishing and the start of our trip home.
Getting back to the ramp unassisted for the second time in a row we packed up the two boats while a couple of the more mature lads went back to Tangles's place for a steamy shower and we hit the road for home about 4:00pm.We went home via Bundy as the amount of road works coming up going the Mirriam Vale was ridiculous not to mention the pot holes and for all that's coming from down south to the M&G I'd recommend going the Bundy way.
Overall it was hard fishing seeing them all on the sounder but the fish not wanting to play the game but we did manage to put a feed together so it wasn't a complete loss.We had a couple of whales play around the boat on the second day which was kind of cool/scaryas they swam under the boat and started to do laps around us for a while, they weren't those freakin' huge ones they were more like smaller Japanese bite size ones but when you can see them under the boat and they start circling the boat braking the surface and doing that blow hole thing it is pretty special but it was just a tad too close for me.
A big thanks to Team Beeracuda for their company and non stop laughs on the radio and thanks to Fishfeeder and Tangles for the great couple of days.
-230km traveled for a fuel burn of 285L
-Popped Brett's red cherry
-Tangles PB trout
-About 50 billion bust offs on 80LB gear
-And a bit of a secret...trout seem to like Pink Floyd
Overall a good trip with some great blokes......what more can you ask for Cobiaman and Lucee81?
Once again I must apologise for the way Fishfeeder has laid the fish out for the photo..gee your a lazy bugger.
The photo of Tangles was meant to be one of those 'hooked up big time on the Barrier Reef ' photos but by the time I took the photo he already got busted but I did manage to snap the ' You wouldn't F^%$&*G believe it !!' nearly in tears shot....a much more amusing photo if I do say so myself.
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