Wide Bay Bar - found an expensive FAD

[Reefmaster]

Howdy all,
Just had a quick trip out from the Wide Bay Bar, which produced a good variety of fish such as Red Emperor, Pearlies, loads of Maori Cod, Moses Perch, Parrot and Hussar all caught from the closer in grounds. Had the Oldman and Foxy (dfox) aboard and went wide in the afternoon and found an upturned Cat about 26 foot long with motors still attached out near the shelf. It looked like it had been in the water for a fair period of time with amount of growth on it and also by the large amount of fish life around it. Some big Bull Dolphin fish were hanging around but you couldn’t get a bait near them with out all the other small fish picking the bait to pieces. The Cat was on the edge of a very strong current line and was heading south at a fair speed in the current. Details were passed onto Coast Guard who were going to then pass onto the police for further investigation. That was about as much excitement we had out wide as the current was ragging and the Northerly wind started to blow 15-20 knots making it un-fishable. We headed back in to the closer grounds and anchored up for the night catching a few reefies to keep us amused. Plenty of Container ships and sloppy seas made it hard for a good sleep before returning to an area out the front of the bar early in the morning for some School and Spottie Macks on slugs. Sorry didn’t take a lot of pics and have kept the good ones for BnB.

Regards Greg

[Reefmaster]

Foxy with one of many good sized Maori Cod caught

[Reefmaster]

Pearl

[Reefmaster]

Ran into a few of these buggers. This fella ended up wrapping himself into 3 different lines and finally was raised on the 3rd line after braking the other 2 off.

[Reefmaster]

Foxy with a 3kg parrot. This fella was very light in colour while another one i caught at the same size was dark green in colour.

[aussiefool]

some really nice fish there mate ... sounds like a good trip out.

now what way did you say that cat was driffting???

[StevenM]

Greg

Some nice fish as usual

Be interesting if the cops or anyone comes back to you re the Cat

Cheers

Steven

[madman1]

How hard is it to get out of the Wide Bay Bar as me and a few mates are considering a trip in June for a few days?

How far out do you need to go to get a good feed?

Looks like a good trip

Keep it up.

Cheers


Mark

[Fixation]

Hey Greg,

Must have been interesting to find that cat out there. Wouldn't have been fun finding it in the dark though. Sounds like a good trip. Looks like conditions were pretty good. Love the pics.

Regards,
Craig.

[DaMaGe]

wow, how unique to see an upturned boat floating down the coast.
Nice catch of fish too.

[GT_warrior]

Hmmmmm...... sad about the cat, I hope all on her are/were ok

[snapperm8]

some awsome fish there mate



cheers dave

[Big_Ren]

Hi Greg

Imagine that cat drifting into you while you were sleeping

Some really nice fish again mate. Great to see the maoris....did you get a few of these tasty buggers?

Cheers
Paul

[rakinray]

Top stuff Greg some top table fish there mate, im still waiting for my invitation for a di trip !

CHEERS RAY

[reef_king]

Top stuff greg and others . Top cod as well.