banks bitting

[dfox]

i fished barwon banks last saturday night and again last night both for top results. the snapper were thick in numbers and size, my personal taley was 19 with 5 over 6kilos the largest 7.2kilo. fellow anglers on board returned simular results including young mick (14yrs) who showed most of us up! we arrived home this morning with our bag limit of 20 snapper and 20 pearlys so all our friends and nieghbours will be feasting tonight.we did encounter alot of yellow tail kingings as well as our backs can comferm today. the fish bit consistantly with the bigger ones chewing at 7pm and again around 11.saw no other boats but did encounter humpbacks one of which i hooked up on, im sure i turned him before i lost 300 mtrs of line.conditions were windy but comfortable and the current running north i fished the 100mtr contour for anyone interested , c-ya foxy. ( ps il post some photos later today)

[adamleah]

Mate .


Sounds like a top nights fishing there. awards reaped for a full nights effort..

You wouldn't have to be Shanes brother would you?
I worked with Shane for 8 yrs before he headed to Townsville, if so..


Adam

[webby]

Hi great fishing,
Not begruding your efforts, but you stated your personnel tally of 19 snapper and the other on board had similiar results, yet the four of you by the sounds bagged out on snapper (20)?????.
Just trying to say, watch what you put up on this board as many eyes are watching.
regards

[damons33]

maori wrasse are a prohibited species dude 10 grand fine

4 of you's can take that many snapper and sounds like you had a great session, eat the wrasse first,lol.
last year a mate and i got our bag limits of snapper all over 6kilo in 20 minutes on the banks, i think shes the premier spot in the seq area.
damon

[dfox]

yep shane is my brother, i caught 19 but released most of them you dont know how hard it is to let 5 kilo snapper go just in case some 10 kilo fish come along, the young boys keep count for us, and also remind you whose caught the most, i came third out of four of us.

[dfox]

cleaning my share of catch

[dfox]

nice pearly

[DaneCross]

There's some great fish there! Top fishing dfox [smiley=2thumbsup.gif] Great looking rig too - is she yours?
DC

[dfox]

yes dc, had this boat for about 18 months now, had a sportfish for 11years before.

[-spiro-]

Foxy
I spoke to your deckie at the boat ramp when you where leaveing, i had the plate boat next to you. Out of interest what weight did you use to reach the bottom? I was useing a 1 pound lead in 50 mts of water aswell as a 10 and 8 ball sinkers on together to hit the bottom but the drift was to fast and kept leaveing the bottom.

[trevcob]

Top nights work .I tried to get out to the Banks on Tursday morning but it was to rough came back in and fished murphyes with no luck.

[SeaSaw]

There are some good sized fish there dfox. Well done. Looks like the Snapper are starting to show up in numbers out wide. Once I am back in the water (got some engine repairs happening this week), I'll be out there.

Cheers,

Mark

[dfox]

spiro, i used a number 10 ball and if the run picks up i use 2 with a plastic bead between them to stop them from flatening the ends. the current was stronger to the north saturday then it was down the banks but it did die off on dark, howd you go on saturday?

[-spiro-]

dfox
I only bought 1 red throat home. The problem was that i didnt try to anchor thinking of my chucking deckie[bast***]. I reckon that we only fished for 3/4 of a hour before 12kn picked up to 18-20 with a sea pickup of 1/2m or so bigger. That was my first time to the banks, i had a couple of marks to try but didnt really get to check them out properly. I carnt wait to go back and give it another go. The other deckie got 2 really good bust-offs, so in a shot amount of time it would of made worth while.