reds and bustups off fraser

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Headed out friday arvo from tin can, with my bro and mate big kev.8 mile out by dusk and fished slowly for some small pearlies [ released ]and nannigai which we ate the next morning . Headed to the shelf fishing a few spots as we went dodging the lightning storms.next morning landed a few reds 3nm from shelf, but soon went quiet.Fished all day on various marks as we went north pulling reds along the way.A no. of spots had plenty of reds there but there size was not what we were chasing. Around lunch time we were pulling red throats and reds 7-8kg on the first couple of drifts, on a new bommie we found, but soon went quiet after loosing some real big fish to sharks, so we moved on.



Got to a group of bommies at an area I call 'SHARK SHOAL' at about 4.30pm.This area holds huge reds and many other big finned creatures. This spot is not normall fishing, 80pd line, locked drags,stand up game rods, just don't cut it.Down went the 200pd deck winches with 11/0 hooks and whole mullet ......WHAM tHE winches drag starts screaming adding hurt to the fish gets it almost halfway up then sharked.Next few drops resulted in higher drags to beat the sharks which resulted in snapping 11/0 hooks in half the 180pd trace or pulling hooks.We only landed 2 reds from this spot which were real small (7,7.5kg) compared to the beasts that got away.On dusk the wind changed to the ne and pushed us off the reds,we droped anyway which resulted in a hot bight for the next 10mins on some snapper.5 Made it to the boat before the sharks realised they were letting some through, And stole a huge nobbie 8-10kg right in front of us.After this the fishing went real quiet so we settled for a sleep.

Sunday morning after a sleep in 6.30 up.We pulled anchor and did some drifts around this area,Same result as saturday and couldn't get the huge reds in the boat before the sharks.Really pissed off so headed south back to the mark we were catching reds and red throat at.We only needed 1 more red to make our bag limit,so we all droped resulted in a double hookup on really good fish,both sharked.Next drift was on another bommie 100mtrs away which resulted in a triple hookup.The only thing we were thinking was piss off sharks, lucky enough 4 legal reds made it to the boat and a nice red throat , that was our last drop and we headed for home.

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another red

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and another

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a nice red throat at 4.5kg

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more reds

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last drop 1

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last drop 2

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reds on the sounder

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shelf snapper

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biggest went 10kg

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average reds 7-8 kg,snapper to 5.5kg, good parrot at 4kg and the hussar were going 50cm.

[insideout]

NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNICE!!!!!!!!!!!! Hopefully we will venture down through the south fraser bar to get us some of the red emp action. Is there much ground (besides shelf) to fish down that way? We usually go up through the top fraser bar to fish the grounds there through to the shelf.
Good report ,great fish!!

[indy]

Well done got to love those reds you must have a bloody big esky very very jealous

[snappa]

one day ......

[barraletic]

Awsome trip hey?, I am going to tow my little 4.55mtr glass boat to Inskip for eeaster do you know of any good fishable spots for me . I dont even know if i can get outside from Inskip camp ground HELP!