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Well this may carry on a bit as there are a few pictures to post so bare with!

Saturday:

Started the weekend of course by overseeing the Moreton Bay Classic. My two cents on the comp... I was stoked with how it worked out. I am also happy that this format for events (photo entry and all) worked so well as it really allows us to explore more species, more locations and more events in the future. Thanks to everyone who attended and helped to make it a great comp.

During the day while everyone was out fishing, Kriso, Johnny, Beckie and I kicked around HQ and did a bit of fishing off the Gunn. As expected the pike were in thick numbers. This was actually pretty cool though as Beckie, formally of England, had never caught a fish on Soft Plastic. Beckie's first and game on, a nice healthy pike. She also got a Moses perch just to mix it up a bit. Everyone caught their fair share of pike and Kriso and I also scored a little (30 odd cm) GT each.

After the prize presentation and a few laugh, Tanya and I hit the road and headed to the Straddy Ferry for a couple of days on our beloved NSI. Special thanks to Kriso for handing his gear around which massively helped the day pass smoothly and to Rob Low for the winning Snapper! Rob it was fan bloody tastic.

Sunday:

All geed up from seeing so many fish and not really catching much Saturday I woke dad up at 4:30am and off we went to the rocks to see what was around.

The first thing we noticed was to effect our fishing for the whole weekend. Due to large seas and very high tides courtesy of the full moon, the entire length of main beach had been decimated. This caused there to be an enourmous ammount of dune grass in the water, and the water had a fairly off colour to it. According to some old gaffers on the island this puts the Trevs and Tailor that are usually abundant at this time of the year off a bit. Oh well, not going to stop us fishing.

As feared the tailor did not seem to be there. However we reverted to one of our favourite fishing techniques for Straddy... Plastics off the rocks. As expected we nailed some great bream on plastics (Damiki D Grubs), and picked up a few extras. I bagged a nice whiting on a D Grub as well as a nice Mowong. It was fish for dinner (and breakfast and lunch) this weekend.

Monday:

We decided to sleep in a little Monday (6:00am) and hit point look out. I was determined to catch at least one tailor so I took plastics, slugs and pillies. Dad just wanting breakfast took beach worms caught the previous day. I had one screaming run that I cant account for and dad only landed one bream this session.

The afternoon proved far more successful with several solid bream being caught on plastics and another Mowong for me. I also caught what I think was a Black Drummer on live beach worm but im not sure. Ill let the experts ID it for me. It fought hard and dirty and was caught under a ledge. This combined with the fact it looked like a Luderick but black led me to my ID.

About 15 minutes before we were going to head home dad got a screaming run on his light set up. After a solid fight in came the biggest Mowong of the trip. Pretty solid at 42cm this fish was also thick.

All in all it was a sweet weekend and good to catch up with the old man for so much fishing.

Cheers.

Angus

P.S. Sorry that was a bit long.

Picture: Dawn on the day of the MBC. Oh yes its going to be tough for the boaters in that :P

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Bream on a Damiki D Grub.

The grubs have a strong shrimp scent and im not sure if it was this one, but one of the big bream just hit the plastic as if I was bait fishing with it. Its tail has a good action in the surge as well which could also help.

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Another nice bream. Its good on these rocks as the "smaller" bream are about 30cm fork length. The Black Rose rod is actually a bit heavy for what I would consider typical breaming, but lifting these fish over ledges and getting back in over rocks and from uder ledges means the extra hurt you can put on makes all the difference.

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Dad with his Mowong. Benno said this in a recent post and I concur, these are massively underated eating fish. We ate this one hours after being caught and it was not much different to a good squire.

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uglyfish wrote:

black drummer for sure angus,nice fish and great pix...

Thanks for the ID mate.

There were actually schools of these under the ledges so I might try and work out a better technique for this next time.

Cheers.

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nice one mate some top fish there! and for those that have never got a fish on plastics if you go to the gunn its like shooting fish in a barrel with the pike there and you still have a chance at the bream and trevally in there as well. good fun when you can watch like 5 fish fighting over your lure even if they are pike very entertaining

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Angus,

Regarding your morwong. You have at least 2 species there, the one your old man is holding is a netted sweetlip, definitely one of the best eating morwong, however red morwong is the best!

Anatomically speaking, these guys are actually true sweetlip, as opposed to emperor like grassies and spangles. There are a heap of species, slaties are actually painted sweetlip and are probably the most common. For some reason they are all referred to as morwong!

But as you said, they are underrated as food fish but don't tell everyone so there is more for us!

Drummer make fine table fair, bleed them and they are even better. Best bait is definitely cunjevoi if you can get it. Fish a sinker directly onto the hook, as light as practicable for the conditions. About a 2/0 hook is good, up to 4/0 for the bigger ones. Catch them all the time off the rocks at north point at this time of year, better down off fingal and cabarita though.

Cheers,

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benno573 wrote:

Angus,

Regarding your morwong. You have at least 2 species there, the one your old man is holding is a netted sweetlip, definitely one of the best eating morwong, however red morwong is the best!

Anatomically speaking, these guys are actually true sweetlip, as opposed to emperor like grassies and spangles. There are a heap of species, slaties are actually painted sweetlip and are probably the most common. For some reason they are all referred to as morwong!

But as you said, they are underrated as food fish but don't tell everyone so there is more for us!

Drummer make fine table fair, bleed them and they are even better. Best bait is definitely cunjevoi if you can get it. Fish a sinker directly onto the hook, as light as practicable for the conditions. About a 2/0 hook is good, up to 4/0 for the bigger ones. Catch them all the time off the rocks at north point at this time of year, better down off fingal and cabarita though.

Cheers,

Benno

Cheers Benno. So shortage of Cunjevoi thats for sure.

Ill give them a good crack next time as there were schools of them.

There was also one of those huge tuskies swimming with them, would have easily been over 60cm. I could not tempt it with plastics, worms or squid though! Was cool to see anyway.

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dhess wrote:

Great report Angus!

Any more info on the Black Rose? Cost and how you would describe it overall?

That requires a long answer Dom!

I might even do a little product review.

But in short. Very happy. Whippy enough to use for this sort of breaming, but tough enough to hold some decent snapper I would say. Hoping to test it on some bigger fish next week to find out!

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benno573 wrote:
Angus,

Regarding your morwong. You have at least 2 species there, the one your old man is holding is a netted sweetlip, definitely one of the best eating morwong, however red morwong is the best!

Anatomically speaking, these guys are actually true sweetlip, as opposed to emperor like grassies and spangles. There are a heap of species, slaties are actually painted sweetlip and are probably the most common. For some reason they are all referred to as morwong!

But as you said, they are underrated as food fish but don't tell everyone so there is more for us!

Drummer make fine table fair, bleed them and they are even better. Best bait is definitely cunjevoi if you can get it. Fish a sinker directly onto the hook, as light as practicable for the conditions. About a 2/0 hook is good, up to 4/0 for the bigger ones. Catch them all the time off the rocks at north point at this time of year, better down off fingal and cabarita though.

Cheers,

Benno

Cheers Benno. So shortage of Cunjevoi thats for sure.

Ill give them a good crack next time as there were schools of them.

There was also one of those huge tuskies swimming with them, would have easily been over 60cm. I could not tempt it with plastics, worms or squid though! Was cool to see anyway.

You'll find cunj is great for pretty much everything off the rocks, including big tuskies... I have a random DVD at home showing guys drummer fishing, you're welcome to borrow it one day.

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