Scarbourgh 18 Dec

[split-shot]

Hit the water at 4.30 am and headed down to the shields street reef. Fished the start of the incoming tide for a couple of hours, without loosing a bait. Steamed north to the scarbourgh reef and caught red throat emporer and squiry snapper, all under size and returned for another day. Things went quit, so we headed out wide to the 9 metre mark, by this time the wind was getting up. Did no good out there so headed back to reef point. Here we finally struck pay dirt, one nice 63 cm Grunter Bream or Spotted javelin fish (what a fighter) and a school mackerel at 62 cm. There we also some under size tailor and the ever present sting ray.

Over all a very good day.

Merry Christmas to all

Split shot

[vertico]

not a bad haul for scarborough reef
you sure the red throat emperor werent grass sweetlip ?
they are known to have red throats at times ?

[aquarius]

60+cm Grunter bream would have given you a workout mate............What did you catch it on?
Redthroat sweetlip as far as i know have been caught in the bay but like Sean has said The grassy sweetlip are more prolific on the shallow reefs this time of year.
Did you take a photo of that snodger grunter bream?
Cheers Brent

[SgBFish]

Did you get the mackeral on a pillie? There should be some on these shallow reefs by now. But I haven't heard mant reports.
Scott

[split-shot]

They may have been grassy sweet lip, my deck hand called them red throat emporer.

I have a photo of the grunter but it's file size is to big to post, I will have to drop the quality on the digi camera next time. The grunter and the mackeral were both caught on small mullet that had been caught in the cast net during the week then snap frozen.
We were fishing at the end of reef point near the channel marker. beware of the floating gin palaces that try and swamp you as they go past and leave a big hole in their wake.


Split-shot

[Just_chips]

Hey split-shot have a look on the help page there are some tips on how to reduce your photo file sizes so that you can get them down under 100kb for posting.

Cheers Kev

[vertico]

top fish is a grass sweetlip

[split-shot]

Thanks to Kev, here is photo and who said that you can't teach an old fisho new tricks.

split-shot

[split-shot]

A couple more with the measuring stick.

split-shot

[vertico]

nice grunter you got there

[outsiderskip]

hi split shot
nice talking about fish u caught
pics do a better job

MERRY X MASS
cheers pete