And more snapper from the Banks

[Matt]

Got our bag of good snapper at the banks like everyone else by the looks of things. Also chased a fair few free jumping Marlin for one follow from a mid sized black but no takes. A few other bits and pieces to mix it up - perfect day as far as I'm concerned!

Best snapper went 80cm and 5.9kg's.

Matt.

[chemmy]

what? part of the banks where you fishing

the canditions where the best i'v ever seen them, what about you?

[swano]

good to see ya got into em matt darren looks like he was kissing them with all that red stuff on his chin

[krtazy]

good effort guys that would have capped of an already sensational day to bag out on snapper and then catch a billy after that.

[caloundra]

some nice fish there matt
the banks sounds like the place to be at the moment

Daniel

[-spiro-]

onya Matt

[Matt]

what? part of the banks where you fishing

the canditions where the best i'v ever seen them, what about you?

heya chemmy, yeah we could have driven to fiji on a day like that. We worked from the mid banks to the northern end trying to get a bit of exploring in. We found most of the fish towards the northern end and have some spots I wouldn't mind trying at dawn now. We didn't get back to the ramp until after 5:30pm and it had just gone from calm to glassed out as we were leaving. I called the other half when I was back in mobile range but she said I had to keep coming home Great conditions for an o'nighter.

I heard your name out there on the radio Spiro, how did you end up?

Matt.

[jeffo]

matt- i tried to call spiro and lucky phill (saw a boat that looked much like re bait)... we fished the top end of the banks for bugger all ??? i think the noisey deisels kept the knobbies at bay for us. we came back into a closer mark and got some good fish in the arvo.

ended up with
1 cobia
1 wrasse
2 hussar
1 moses perch
4 squire
7 big pearlies (to 65cm's)
threw a stack of other bits and pieces back.

[Anne-T-Dote]

Matt,

Nice work mate - some good quality fish there.

[Matt]

matt- i tried to call spiro and lucky phill (saw a boat that looked much like re bait)... we fished the top end of the banks for bugger all ??? i think the noisey deisels kept the knobbies at bay for us. we came back into a closer mark and got some good fish in the arvo.

ended up with
1 cobia
1 wrasse
2 hussar
1 moses perch
4 squire
7 big pearlies (to 65cm's)
threw a stack of other bits and pieces back.

I was wishing I had a couple of noisy diesels to get the attention of the billies. We didn't get a lot of bycatch, some legal pearlies would have been nice. My mate Darren caught a decent but still undersized red emporer wich was good to see, some bludger trevs, tusk fish, frigate, funny bream looking things and a few small pearlies. We saw some game boats a few K N/E of us if you were with others.

Matt.