Offshore Double Island Point

[Reefmaster]

well sorry about this report but its gonna be short with little detail. Hit the water sat morning and headed out aound 40km mark with some livies and first spot showed huge amounts of fish on the sounder but after several drops i knew this was gonna be a tough weekend with the fish just not interested in chewing besides a bloody huge cod that i released and a frigging whale that decided he wanted shelter under our boat and even after drifting and driving back to the marks he would soon find us and just hang around ??? i should have taken a picture of the sounder as it showed the biggest red arch you will ever see . anyway we headed to many marks trying to find some reds and the same story would be plenty of fish showing but not chewing. We ended up on the shelf and found some good Reds and worked our way south along the shelf many many miles catching the odd fish here and there before heading in close for the snapper but the long drive saw us get there just after dark but soon as we anchored the snapper were on for about 15 minutes and then it went dead.
Then the wind got up and blew a good 20 knots all night leaving us almost sleep less and pretty un happy with the weather man. We headed out around the 14 mile area and got some nice pearlies and other bits and pieces before making our way in around 9.00am and heading home. It would be a good weekend to make notes of the weather conditions and moon phase and not make another trip at that time again. The fish were there in good numbers but really werent interested in feeding. Not to often we see this happen but thats fishing. We ended up with a nice catch of Reds pearlies snapper and other species but gee we put the hard yards in.

Cheers Greg

[craigie]

Top Quality you've got displayed there Reefmaster. Would have loved a couple like that down on the Barwons Saturday Night. We had the same wind as yourself, mighty F*&king joggly.

Will look for the rest of your pics in the next B&B.

The next good weekend might see half of Ausfish following you out of DI as the Barwons were a bit disapointing for a few of us

Cheers
Craigie

[Thunderbird]

Confuscious say:
Too much time travelling not enough time fishing
Is what makes for a bad looking esky

[Reefmaster]

yeah bad weekend for offshore fishing craigie and yep all good pics and info will be in BnB. We traveled just shy of 200km on the trip and used 150ltrs of fuel not to bad for a 2 stroke But gee there was some unreal bottom all along the edge of the shelf. i will post some pics off my video camera soon.

[Lucky_Phill]

Mark, and your report goes like ?

Phill

[philip_thomson]

those are some nice fish there, that reds very nice. you really should ahve taken a photo of the sounder that would be so awsome.

well done cheers philip

[Cheech]

Greg, can I ask a dumb question,,, When you anchour up for the night that far out, is there any concern of passing ships?

[opimax]

yep

[Reefmaster]

Cheech
its a big concern mate and its always in your mind. best to have someone on watch. you can work out roughly were the usaull path is for these ships but sometimes there is the odd one out of that area. The paper actaully has when these ships depart and arrive in brisbane and one day i might check to see if it can be useful to us. We came very close to getting run over in the middle of the day once. they can really sneak up on you

[snappa]

REEFY

what was the bar like for a return trip i know you dont use the bar but just thinking if i was up there and used the bar ?????

[snappa]

hi
if there is going to be a ausfish fisho's fish at D/I..
I WILL CREW WITH anyone..

[Smithy]

Greg,

Was that the shelf due East or up in that 65km stuff? I saw little ledges East but nothing with fish on it and nothing worth anchoring on. Current was also roaring that day. Looked good for Marlin in fact.

[Reefmaster]

Rob
The Reds came from some good country about 10km SE from that 65km area on the shelf and the current was running really hard. This i would assume is the area you fish mostly . The good country we found was due east of the bar just inside the shelf and the whole area showed great bottom and massive ledges which was just covered in fish and bait. I will down load my video camera and take a few still shots and post them on here soon. There was bugger all current at this spot as well.

Cheers Greg

[Reefmaster]

heres a shot from my video camera that was taken on the country east of the bar on the shelf.

[bugman]

Greg,

Is that only 56 metres deep. I'm not familiar with the country up there but am I right in guessing that it's only 56 metres deep 65 km directly East of the bar.

Beats winding in pearlies from 130 metres I guess.

Does look promising.

Bugman