sydfish
05-03-07, 12:11 PM
Hey Guys a quick update from up north,
Spent the last 3 days out off Mooloolabah about 40km at a place called the Barwon Banks, This is an area that is at the junction of the Coral Sea and the Pacific ocean, the banks as they are known rise up from the shelf and from 80m on tha western side to 25m in certain spots, it is a reef and pelagic hotspot.
Over the 3 days we ended up with 20 or so different species, from amberjack and rainbow runners, in the first few pics, more to come, to red emperor, snapper pearl perch, cobia, spanish mackeral, spotty mackeral, mack tuna, stripey tuna, jellybean yellowfin, grey mowong, iodine bream, sweetlip, leatherjacket, parrot fish, GT's, spottet Trevally, Turrum, corination trout, mouri cod, flowery cod and two or 3 more species of trevally that we could not ID and I am sure that there are a couple species that we did not id because they that blew us away.
I reckon that we caught over 200 fish in 3 sessions, admittedly there were 40 or 50 emperor that were just under the 55 size limit that went back including the one in the pic. I would had of taken more pics but it is hard to pick up a camera when the reels are screaming.
One of the most memorable moments was a missed opportunity, when after cubing for a while i hooked a 3kg mack tuna only to have the back half missing as i gotit close to the boat, at the same time a 25kg pus spanish mack, it was a big fish, that was eying of the bleeding twitching tuna that i had dangling just out of the water, just as i grabed a big rod with heavy wire the bloody tuna somehow fell off and the spaniard went bang and took it right beside the engine whole in one mouthful, never to be seen by us again. :violent1: Haappy :party:
3/4 of the time fishing was on a reef of 35m the rest was either trolling or chucking metal slugs at boiling schools
Awesome weekend, so whose coming up soon?
Spent the last 3 days out off Mooloolabah about 40km at a place called the Barwon Banks, This is an area that is at the junction of the Coral Sea and the Pacific ocean, the banks as they are known rise up from the shelf and from 80m on tha western side to 25m in certain spots, it is a reef and pelagic hotspot.
Over the 3 days we ended up with 20 or so different species, from amberjack and rainbow runners, in the first few pics, more to come, to red emperor, snapper pearl perch, cobia, spanish mackeral, spotty mackeral, mack tuna, stripey tuna, jellybean yellowfin, grey mowong, iodine bream, sweetlip, leatherjacket, parrot fish, GT's, spottet Trevally, Turrum, corination trout, mouri cod, flowery cod and two or 3 more species of trevally that we could not ID and I am sure that there are a couple species that we did not id because they that blew us away.
I reckon that we caught over 200 fish in 3 sessions, admittedly there were 40 or 50 emperor that were just under the 55 size limit that went back including the one in the pic. I would had of taken more pics but it is hard to pick up a camera when the reels are screaming.
One of the most memorable moments was a missed opportunity, when after cubing for a while i hooked a 3kg mack tuna only to have the back half missing as i gotit close to the boat, at the same time a 25kg pus spanish mack, it was a big fish, that was eying of the bleeding twitching tuna that i had dangling just out of the water, just as i grabed a big rod with heavy wire the bloody tuna somehow fell off and the spaniard went bang and took it right beside the engine whole in one mouthful, never to be seen by us again. :violent1: Haappy :party:
3/4 of the time fishing was on a reef of 35m the rest was either trolling or chucking metal slugs at boiling schools
Awesome weekend, so whose coming up soon?