North Queensland OFFSHORE ACTION

[Payneful]

Hey Guys

As many of you know I have migrated back to north queensland. Went fishing offshore from Cairns on the Easter weekend (satuday i think ???).

In short, the results was a mixed bag of small and large mouth nannygai, sweetlip and rosy jobfish a few other fish were boated but released including a few just undersize reds

We threw back a few decent green jobfish (my mate reckons they aren't worth keeping) is this true? Have never kept them before. ??? ???

The fish were a little patchy and the usual spots only produced a fish here and there, my deckies were getting a little doubtful of me (i promised them lots of fish), with the pressure on I finally found out where they were hanging and produced a reasonable catch for them.

Most of the fish were caught in the hours leading up to daylight (only becuse thats when i found them ), when the sun came up they went off the bite ... So with a reasonable catch on board (and a tired skipper) we headed off home.

Sam


Here is a pic of the catch

[philip_thomson]

thats a nice catch there sam.
if thats a reasonable catch id love to see a Huge catch never actually eaten a Green Jobfish however i hear they are quite good on the plate.

sounds like a great trip was had

cheers phil

[Lucky_Phill]

Hey Sam,

Yes, those Jobbies are good chewing. Love the fight also.
donged one around the 6kg off Fraser a little while ago. But they get to 10ish.

Looks like I'll have to put you on my " must visit " list while doing a Northern Trek, next year.

Good size fish, that bag, hey. Too big and they get hard to fillet.

Not, too sure, but it looks like a couple of Spangleis in there, those bugga's can get ' tough ' as the size increases. Grassies are much better, as well as the Red Throat.

Good report, and look forward to more.

Cheers Phill

[mariner_22]

yeah mate good haul about those jobfish yeah there good to eat but the larger ones have been linked with cigutera poisioning so its best to put them back.

MARINER 22

[Daintreeboy]

nice haul mate. What reef were you on? We didn't do too bad but missed the Large Mouth. Most of our fish bit near the morning too although the bites were slow all night. Time of year I guess for reds.
Cheers, Mark.

[Hookem_Herby]

Sam,

Glad to hear you're getting a few fish up north as well mate. You still on the same mobile number? How's the new job?
Any plans of visiting Brisvegas any time soon? Still owe you a trip offshore so get in touch if you come down.

Take care,
Herby

[agnes_jack]

Nice catch Sam!
Ya gotta luv NQ.

Regards, Tony

[bazzaman]

good haul there mate! Which reef were they caught at, must have been around arlington?? What depth of water??

Cheers

Shane

[-spiro-]

Nice to see that you hoped off that motorbike for a day and go fishing. All that red there is hurting my eyes Sam. 8) Great effort and catch and look forward to more post from NQ. Green job fish are a top eatting fish, so hit your mate with a nula nula!!!!!

[Payneful]

Herby

Mobile number still the same, the job is going great, will give you a ring one night to catch up

Bazzaman

Your right ... they were caught "around" arlington! Good guess.

Spiro

It was hard to jump off my new toy ... but the weather was just so nice and not to mention the luxury of borrowing dads 23.5 footer! (he is in tassy ... fishing for trout). The old 225 opti chews a little more than my 60 4strk yammy so the fuel hurts a little .... I am going to take your advice and hit my mate with a nula nula ... or maybe a green jobfish ... we threw quite a few nice ones away

Sam

[dfox]

Good to see things are going well sam! Great feed there mate
May catch up with you up there one day and we'll go and get those jobbies you let go! they should have put on a few more pounds by then! catch ya ...foxy

[megafish71]

Sam, seeing your back up here in the north, we'll have to catch up and maybe go and catch a fish sometime.

Cheers Ron

[Payneful]

Yeah sounds good Ron ... When are you coming back up here Foxy?

[hoga]

you should have kept the green jobies they make great trailer
chocks hoga

[Cheech]

Hoga,

How did you go on Sunday at the banks? saw your "going fishing" thread and was going to give you a ring but took the boy out to Archerfield speedway to see the monster trucks instead.

Looked like it was going to be a bit lumpy out there. Looking forward to winter.

Cheech