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Headed out the wide bay bar late sat arvo with just the 2 of us onboard, and decided to head south-east of D.I. to the close grounds were we had never been before. Without a mark to go off we set up a grid pattern and started searching. Well after sun down we came across a likely looking spot that was small in area and had good growth and bait. First drift was a double on snappers around 5kg, anchored and caught solid snaps one after the other kept none under 60cm and stopped at 8 so as not to go over our bag in the hope of getting some snodgers as we had plenty of time left to fish. Also managed 2 reds around the 65-70cm range and other bit and peices.
Next morn moved away from snapper and continued our grid. Found a nice isolated spot coming up to 43m from 53m and quickly got our bag on red-throat. Moved off and found another spot about 400m east that was a nice small 5m ledge covered in good weedy growth. Caught a nice red an AJ and some bust-ups. MOved off and decided to make the long run out to shelf country. About 5mile away the sounder temp jumped 1 deegree and the water turned beautiful blue, we quickly tested the current and as expected it was raging and unfishable. Turned around and headed back in to were we had been working the grid but found something on the way. I was sittin on a slow cruise to sound better with when the sounder showed a spec. I turned around and searched the area but sounder revealed no fish as i was off my plot trail by 20-25m. Followed plot exactly and found a 5 by 5m school holding on the bottom 2 meters on some growth. First drift and nathan pulled a 4.7kilo pearlie and i a 50cm red, next drift neither got a touch on the bottem rig but i got hit on the set floater in the rod holder, and pulled a horse 5kilo pearl. Next drift was dead, so pulled wide and turned both sounders off. I hooked-up and landed a 10.2kg red. Another drift was dead so headed in and continued the grid. Found some small spots that looked dull except for one that looked like reds and we got some more. Anchored on another good show for the night but managed more snaps and cobes that were released. Next morn woke up and worked a good little patch of gravel were we finished our bag of pearlie and snaps.
Was great fishing and had the engines on most the time covering 178nm. I belive most the spots we fished had never been fished before as we got good amount of cod and the quaility was great and hit all limits. There is alot of no-mans land out there and spots are hard to find and very isolated but definitly worth the the boredom of searching.
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