Trout Time

[Alchemy]

This past weekend Bob and I cruised out to Broadhurst Reef in Alchemy. This is the third trip out to Broadhurst in September of the past three years and each time has seen this reef throw up a great catch of trout. This trip saw us arrive at the reef at about 3pm on Saturday afternoon. The fishing was quite slow and we hunted around some bombies for a few trout. We'd both had big weeks at work so when the sun went down we had a feed and called it a night. Normally there'd be a fry pan and pot aboard, plus some plates, bowls, cutlery etc but I had been so busy lately that we left without any of the fore mentioned items.

Bob had brought hot dogs for dinner and when I realised there were no implements aboard that would enable us to cook our dinner I got creative. I dug out my Ikijimi spike and shoved this up the middle of the franks, fired up the stove and proceeded to cook up some gourmet hot dogs. At least they were hot!



The next morning and we were up with the sun. The wind had got up during the night for a while but Sunday morning was spectacular, and the fish agreed. We both pulled some great trout and RTE, but the trout were the stand out captures. We also managed a nice Spanish and a school of passing mahi mahi provided some short lived excitement but unfortunately Bob couldn't keep his SP lodged in their mouths. Two hook ups and two jump offs!





















Our plan had always been to hit the trout and then head off mid morning Sunday to Cape Bowling Green to chase marlin. We stuck to this plan and left the trout biting at 10am on Sunday, only to troll for hours without a look at a marlin, nor could we find the bait so we headed for home arriving back at the ramp about 4pm.

Despite the marlin donut we had a ball tussling with some great trout, plus battling the sharks for our share of the spoils.

[jtpython]

Mate awesome to see your reports and some great trout it's slow as here to . Even the Boony scored a little marlin the day before here and i heard of another the same day . Friday or saturday for me but will be taking the kids to smash a red or redjew if we can
JT

[Goodoo haven]

Some really nice trout there buddy. Well done.

[FisHard]

Great fish! Loved the big Diamond Trevally

[Smithy]

Good work Dave! Don't let a few of the guys see what you did with the ikijimi spike, they will be disgusted! ;-) The horror!

Sounds like the marlin bite has moved shallower and north. Quite a few even around Maggie and straight off Cleveland Point. Bait had been moving a bit north. The little ones are still thick off Cairns so you might still have a month of them up there but now most of the game guys start heading to Myrmidon to chase the big ones on the shelf.

[webby nq]

Good to see some quality trout there mate and the old RTE , bet you would have forgotten about work once a couple of them tasty critters jumped in the esky.

Webster

[thelump]

Some tasty treats there mate. And I'm not talking about the sausage!

[Alchemy]

Thanks for the comments.

Smithy; desperate times call for desperate measures! Oh and I wiped the spike clean on the fish rag too!

Macca; The sausage tasted good!

[TREVELLY]

Apart from the Marlin donut it looks like you were spoilt for fish with some very respectable trout and there is nothing wrong with a nice RTE and a mackerel for variety and the conditions look simply awesome - great to be alive!

Thanks for the report Alchemy

PS Not a bad idea to keep a minimum cookset aboard for just such occassions as a back up to the set you forgot. Having forgotten my bucket of sinkers once i keep a back up set of sinkers now to avoid having to return home as I did previously.