Last week off Yeppoon

[Spiderpig]

I've just had a week off, back to work tomorrow.

The weather was ok for the first half of the week and I got out a couple of times, so i thought I'd put up a few pics.

Headed out last Friday for an overnighter out wide. Had a beautiful trip out, but the westerly made the fishing a bit tough. To add to that it blew pretty hard during the night. Apparently a big storm hit the coast that night; we we none the wiser, saw a bit of lightning in the distance and had a solid 15-20 blow from midnight to 4am. The first I knew about the storm was when I got back into phone range and had received a heap of texts asking me if I was alright!



We got a few emperor, a Spanish off the bottom and the usual hussar etc, that I dont bother taking photos of.

Went out for a run early Wednesday morning as well, weather was great! We sat on 30mph the whole way out at 3am. Got to the wide grounds at 5:30 and started fishing. Pulled up two reds, some red throat, tuskies and a trout. The fishing was a bit tough. The fish were on the sounder, the bottom was great, but there was a westerly in it and only the hussar would bite.

After persevering for a few hours we ran back in a bit closer to try a small mouth mark I have. First drift we pulled 3 SM off it! We stayed around for an hour or so and pulled 20 small mouth off it and were back in the harbour by 3pm. We sat on 37-40 mph the whole way home, it was fantastic weather.

[jtpython]

Some great fish there mate good stuff ........ Love the colour red
JT

[Redhunter]

Big effort spiderpig well done

steve

[mitch_wahoo]

Good effort. Weather looks magic. I had my first taste of catching reds last Friday night. I'm hooked on it now. We were up off pearl bay. It was nice and windy up there through the night too.

[Spiderpig]

Good effort. Weather looks magic. I had my first taste of catching reds last Friday night. I'm hooked on it now. We were up off pearl bay. It was nice and windy up there through the night too.

I prolly should have gone north too. Mario from the servo was telling everyone to go North though; which put me off.

We would have been better off because we punched home into a SW swell the whole way home from out wide.

[mitch_wahoo]

You didn't miss much, the fishing was really really slow. We got 7 nannies and 7 reds. A heap of grassy sweet lip and a few other bits and pieces.

[Goodoo haven]

A very nice haul of fish there.

Well done mate.

[webby nq]

Some great fish there spiderpig, just imagine it if that Westerly wasnt there . Can be very frustrating when you can see the fish but they wont have a bar of it, did you try throwing a couple of livies down mate ??

[Spiderpig]

Some great fish there spiderpig, just imagine it if that Westerly wasnt there . Can be very frustrating when you can see the fish but they wont have a bar of it, did you try throwing a couple of livies down mate ??

Not really mate, a damn good idea in hindsight. I dropped a live squid down on the Friday night trip, the flesh bait on the other hook got nailed by a 70cm red!