Halls reef Mayhem 13/09/05

[philip_thomson]

weather was good for an afternoon trip so mal (getwet.gotwet) a mate matt and I headed out to Halls Reef from noosa. we found a good show on the sounder and anchored up. first drop up comes a 38cm tuskie , then matt got a grinner. calls of crap spot began. then mal was hit by a freight train and calls of "trout" were cried. up comes the boats first ever trout at about 55cm. man were we happy.

fish kept coming on board with a few more tuskies and a pearly hitting the decks. then the baitrunner started to "run" then it spat the hook, after about 15minutes of taking the bait and dropping a nice squid came aboard. (it made the boat black).

was a great afternoon only fishing for about 2.5hrs and still came back with a feed. thanks for coming along mal hope the trout was good.

end catch was
2 grinners (released)
2 undersized squire
3 tuskies
1 pearly
1 coral trout
1 sand shark 1.5m
1 wobbegong
1 squid
1 red rock cod (suprisingly very good eating)

cheers phil

[philip_thomson]

matts grinner

[philip_thomson]

my pearly

[philip_thomson]

mals trout

[philip_thomson]

the final result from 2.5hrs of fishing. for virtually no fuel

[fella]

alright catch for a couple of hours . did ya get the pearlie in daylight
? what depth were you fishing. . .

well done guys

[philip_thomson]

thanks fella. we got the pearly during daylight. fishing in about 20m of water. must have been lost as it was the only pearly that we got during the time.

[gotwet]

thanks for the trip phil.
i dont think ive ever seen a better orgaised tackle box in my life. think you should come back up to noosa and give mine a tidy up.

that new colour sounded did the trick and got me my first coral trout (the wife said it tasted great)

the squid stuffed the t shirt. black spots all over it now.

now youve let the cat out of the bag i wont be able to fish halls again. ha ha.

mate did i do it hard this week, tuesday out at 6am - 12 noon back in take boat home then back to river and out with you tuesday arvo get home clean boat after mornings session into bed at 9pm up again at 5 am and out on another mates boat till 12noon wed. arms felt like they were going to drop off wed night. #wed trip 5 snapper 4 tuskies and a red mullet. all from north reef in about 55m.

thanks again and next time ill take my tub.


heres a few more pics

[gotwet]

phils tuskie

[gotwet]

matt & phil

[gotwet]

you forgot to mention my sambo that matt is holding in last pic

phils squid

[gotwet]

d hooking tuskie

[gotwet]

red mullet
one of the prettiest fish ive caught.

[gotwet]

so was i right about the scorpion fish phil.
was it like eating cray?

cheers mal

[-spiro-]

good onya phill. I see you kept within your bag limit