Moreton offshore saturday 6/7/13

[Jigsrule]

Headed out with fishfeeder (Brett) and Johnny (my bro) chasing the elusive snapper.
The morning started out as a shocker with heavy fog around most of the bay right up to the shingles. Took almost 2 hours to arrive at the live bait grounds having to constantly slow down to 10-15km/hr due to very poor visibility.

The livies were thick and we were loaded up with slimies in under 10 minutes. The squire/snapper were few and far between but we ended up getting our bag by mid-morning. We then decided to look for some pearlies out wider but to no avail. Lastly, we went for a jig out at the patch for a couple of kings and an aj.

Most of the snapper were caught floating pillies, squid and slimies. The aj and kingies were caught on jigs.

The highlight of the day being a double hookup on snapper (the biggest two of the day) that John and I had. Just before Johns snapper surfaced, his line tangled up with the other three lines and it was a real mess. Meanwhile my snapper was probably 3/4 of the way up. The three of us was scurrying to clean up the mess when Brett notices a knobby floating out the back of the boat. He then wasted no time in reversing the boat and safely netting my snapper before noah grabbed it...was funny shit.

Thanks again to Brett and John. Had a blast.

Congrats John on your PB snapper at 75cm and a cracker day you had. Just remember who taught you how to floatbait for snapper

[rosco1974]

nice fish josh,maybe u need to teach tim D on how to catch a few fish.lol

[Horse]

Nice catch fellas. We were pulling a few Snapps on the 33s but it was a little slow so we decided to run up to Deep Tempest. It was a bad decision as it was very SLOW up there

[rosco1974]

neil the snapps come on the chew big time just after 8

[Horse]

neil the snapps come on the chew big time just after 8

Just our luck. Always next time though

[Bull]

Well done gents, a very nice looking esky

[dayoo]

Nice feed of snapper Josh.

Cheers
Barry

[cobiaman]

Well done guys

[Skusto]

Nice catch fellas. We were pulling a few Snapps on the 33s but it was a little slow so we decided to run up to Deep Tempest. It was a bad decision as it was very SLOW up there

Snaps came in the feed at about 1130 ended bagging out in two drifts was quite slow earlier on. Caught some rosy job fish and pearl perch as well was a good day out with the weather great and fish chewing

[Jigsrule]

Cheers fellows. Was just great to be out on the water and getting onto some fish was a bonus.

Rosco - yeah, i might just have to show him. I think he's converted back to bait now lol

Dayoo - nice chatting to you again mate. See you at the boaties market...well, depending on the weather of course lol

[Tangles]

Great stuff Josh, some nice snapps Brettt put you guys onto

[fishfeeder]

Was great to get back on the water and get the boys onto some fish.. and YES I caught my share of the catch but float lining was winning hands down over bottom bashing.

That fog was crazy, never been in anything like it before...
I have a greater respect for anyone who can navigate in that sort of conditions, I was having a hard time driving in a straight line at 10km/h.
The concentration was crazy knowing there were other boats in the area and not being able to see Lights on other boats at 30m from you was insane.

We had a boat go past us doing about 40km/h and he had to be driving by nothing but his GPS and I bet he never even knew we were there, unless he had a radar I guess, but don't see many 5m-5.5m boats with Radar installed..

Thanks again guys for a great day on the water..

Cheers
Brett