queensland Big Beasts Lurking Under Beacons

[Hamster]

Hey everyone

decided to get up yesterday morning and go for a fish around the shallow reefs of peel island. woke up at 4 and headed out in my dad's 5.5m Haines signature, and shot out to the western side of peel and fished 2.5 meters of water. caught a stack of small snapper and moses perch, a few legal, most on 3inch powerbaits. then hooked into some big pike around the 30-40cm mark. put 2 into the live well for some fresh bait at the next spot. weather started to a bit choppy and so we decided to head back to manly boat harbor and go home. on the way home we were passing a beacon in between peel island and the maroon banks, and remembered about the 2 big pike alive in the live well. had some heavy tackle from the previous trip, a daiwa saltist 30h overhead on a 10kg rod. set up a 2hook rig mustad big gun 6/0 on 60lb mono leader with a small sinker above the hooks. rigged the pike through the nose and halfway down the body, it was ready to go. dad drove the boat round to place our boat in which it would drift next to the beacon and i dropped the livie down. placed the rod in the holder and sat down and watched. my dad wasn't expecting much and neither was i as we slowly passed the beacon about 10m away. and then the rod got a massive bite and buckled over, and then went slack. i walked over and then picked up the rod still feeling the pike at the end of the line, the the beast came back for more and this time i was ready and hooked the fish well. it started striping line off the reel, then it was all aver the braid snapped. i winded in the slack line and saw serrations on the braid were it had rubbed on something.

just wondering any of your thoughts on what the fish may have been, which markers in the bay may hold more quality fish like this one, what live baits work best, hook size, any fish you have caught from past experiences.

cheers Hamish

[tugger]

i got this bloke next to a beacon at peel island using a large live bait

[Brian D]

Wow that's a good catch for the bay.

[kiwifisho]

tugger wrote:

i got this bloke next to a beacon at peel island using a large live bait

watch out Tugger there could be someone elses face holdin ya cod soon mate lol.

Dean

[superstryda]

holy sh*t tugger :ohmy: , that would've put up a good fight hey?

[yellahunter]

yeah could have been a big cod, big snapper, cobe, king,

really could have been anything mate, but i reckon big cod would be one of the more common biguns around there. The first run of a cod is definately a hard one

[Davo_Dinkum]

hey look what i caught the other day

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[noname]

:laugh: LMBAO... your all bloody mad!!!! hahahaha

[tugger]

hammish there are some good fish around peel and live bait seems to find them alright and dave you would never know that was photo shopped. cobia get around sth west rocks beacon at times my mates got some with octopus for bait

mark

[uglyfish]

might of been a noah as well...nice cod you got there dave hahahha

[tugger]

do you write for any fishing magazines davoDavo_Dinkum wrote:

hey look what i caught the other day

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[Davo_Dinkum]

tugger wrote:

do you write for any fishing magazines davoDavo_Dinkum wrote:

hey look what i caught the other day

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

with catching fish like this .

i'm thinking of writing for fishing mags

[thousandyards]

here's a blast from the past....

[uglyfish]

hahah that rexy one looks near real

[aichepee]

did someone actually photoshop that in the past?

[natang]

Great Cod Tugger! Also boys good work there with photoshop..

[MoparKevUk]

Funny as, Fellas!

[thousandyards]

aichepee wrote:

did someone actually photoshop that in the past?

nah mate.....i do it for a living. not photos of rexy, but design stuff with a fair bit of photoshop......

[tugger]

your thinking of another larger cod aichepee wrote:

did someone actually photoshop that in the past?

[gonefishin]

freakin unbelievable fish mate

[tugger]

got this mixed bag of school mackerel, snapper and tailor off the one beacon on peel a few years back, just floated some pillies back onto the beacon and fished the bottom for reefies