Howdy all
Just a quick report. Headed out the Wide Bay Bar mid Sunday morning and hit a spot for some yakkas and picked up a spottie on the bait jigs which i hooked in the tail. Headed for the horizon and after a long run found some new ground which produced a few hussar, small reds and nice Maori cod. Headed wider and pulled up in the red country and found them schooled up around a nice bommie. Pulled some nice reds with sharks scoring a few. The reds weren't huge ones but nice legal stuff upto around 10kg which was good considering it was the middle of the day. The oldman also produced a stonker Spangled Emperor of 8kg and mixed in with that was some big hussar one of which was the biggest i had seen and its fins were all old and torn. The pic just does not do it justice. After pulling a fair share of red we headed north to some great country which holds plenty of life. It was loaded with bait and first drop resulted in solid hook ups. The oldman was raising his fish but a big shark was right behind. It was a nice Snapper around the 8-9kg range which pop the surface and i saw it was only just hooked in the lip and as i went to grab it the hooks pulled and down it went. In the mean time because i had stopped for a few seconds to help out, my fish which felt like a big knobbie also was sharked in seconds. The next hour or so was very frustrating and we hooked nice fish but every single one would not have made it 10 mtrs off the bottom before being nailed no matter how hard you tried. After this we hit some other spots for reds and a big dirty morwong but the current began to rage so we headed in close to Fraser on a spot and pulled nice squire and moses perch. The morning produced more squire, pearlies and I nailed a nice snapper on a floater before we headed for home but having a great sound around for several hours finding plenty of life but nothing decent to be pulled off it.
Good pics have been saved for BnB
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. Is there much taste differance between the just legal reds and the big boys?
