Swains Report... 12-19 Nov

[blue_rogue]

How are we all,

Was lucky enough to head out to swains reef last week for a weeks fishing. What a fantastic part of the world. Headed out on New Horizons out of Yeppon. John Hallets boat.

Any way, got out to the reef on Monday morning, (reef was closed for 8 days prior) and as soon as we could see we had the lures in the water trolling behind the big boat. Within 3 minutes the ratchets were screaming and two of the rods were hooked up. After about 10 minutes one fish spat the skirt, and the second fish could be stopped. It was break the line with full drag or be spooled and have no line of the reel for the rest of the week.

Everyday consisted of big breakfasts, lunches and dinners, and lots of drinking. But of course the highlight of the trip was the fish. Lots of Coral Trout, Red Throat Sweetlip, 4 Reds, 3 Cobia, 1 Spanish Mackeral and f*#k loads of Sharks.

Heres the photos that sumed up the whole trip.

Photo below was an inlet that we fished for the first day because of the reef closures. We caught muddies for the day.

[blue_rogue]

The dories on the boat

[blue_rogue]

Some good lippers

[blue_rogue]

Some of the Trout,

You never know till you ever go

[blue_rogue]

Some fish

[blue_rogue]

The trays, and trays of fillets

[devocean]

Was that the Booby Bird?

[agnes_jack]

Nice one Dominic
Beautiful trout and lippers!
Was the weather that good for the whole trip?

Regards, Tony

[blue_rogue]

heres some more photos, my brother with some nice fish

nice red caught on handline

[blue_rogue]

cobia caught on floating mullet fillet

[blue_rogue]

father and two sons

[blue_rogue]

nice lippers

[blue_rogue]

Last session of the trip at a shallow bommie accounted for 14 trout and three big lippers. nice way to finish

[blue_rogue]

My nice Spanish on a skirt.....

[blue_rogue]

A nice cobia that took a livie....