queensland Finally Back To Gods Country

[jon]

It’s been long over due but got offered spot to head up to 1770 for a few days. Hit the water and was out to Sykes just before lunch. Weather  on the first day was bit sloppy with the wind forcing us to drift faster than we wanted which meant a bit of time sitting on reverse. We managed a heap of lipper and few trout which was a good start to the box. Decided to head in around dusk to find anchorage behind the reef and cook up some burgers.

next morning we were straight into it and found a nice isolated rock that was holding reds unfortunately the sharks had other ideas and we lost about five fish. Which really sucked as we didn’t find any more for the trip. This is the first trip we’re we didn’t get a single red emporer which is disappointing. Decided to head in abit shallower and chase some trout. Almost all the trout this trip were of quite good size. With a few more trout in the box we came across nice mark absolutely loaded with good spangles all around the 4-5kg mark. Had a ball chasing them on plastics until the sharks showed up again. We spent the last day putting a few more decent trout some parrot and couple of coral cod in the box and then had one last crack at the spangles until we hit bag on them.Weather was glass on Sunday which made for a nice relaxing run back to the ramp.  All in all was a pretty good trip with the final tally going 13 trout 20 spangles, 31 lipper 3 coral cod and 8 parrot. Sorry for lack of pics there all on other people’s phones. Can’t wait to get back up there and settle the score with the Reds and the bloody sharks

 

[straddiebrad]

some good fish there mate great trout too very tasty cant wait until i get the chance to go up again.

 

[kmcrosby78]

Cracking haul Sef, well done. Some top chewing there - enjoy!!

[Luke Landrunner]

Great catch and unlucky with the taxmen on the Reds.

Hopefully get one more trip up there this year. 

[tugger]

Nice line of trout Sef they do get good quality up there on the deeper reefs 

[Drop Bear]

Great stuff mate. Well done. Thanks for the report... I think... now I really want to go back

 

[straddiebrad]

10 minutes ago, Drop Bear said:

Great stuff mate. Well done. Thanks for the report... I think... now I really want to go back

 

now  i new i wanted to go back the day we left,i hope to get a trip in around xmas

 

[Drop Bear]

17 hours ago, straddiebrad said:

now  i new i wanted to go back the day we left,i hope to get a trip in around xmas

 

Oh nice. Good luck. I will be at noosa for xmas. Family do. I need to make sure no-one puts the noose in noosa

[WAZA]

That’s a great feed there Jon

Cheers

Waz