queensland palm beach reef

[tugger]

hitting the palmy for some pelagics in the morning early heading out from tallebudgera ck ramp around just before 4am if anyone else is going around then come and say gday i have a nice spot in the gps that is right in the middle of the reef if u want to follow us out. pm me if your keen we r meeting another afo crew out there and will fish there till about 8am then heading out to the gravel patch for another couple of hours to chase some dolphin fish , spanish macks and marlin. u need a epirb for the gravel patch but not the palmy

mark

[mookystiks]

what time you think you will get back?

I really want to get offshore, but jim has the flu.

should probably stay at home with him, but if it is just a short trip maybe . . .

[tugger]

about midday mooky sorry i got a full boat but if any one wants to tag along with their boat just post here or PM me

mark

[wesfish]

i am heading out on tuesday , weather depending! got an rdo to use so i thought of the macks :laugh: will have to be good weather in the lil tinny though!

[noname]

brad and i just got back

not worth it mark, gunna be a slop in da mornin, the slop has been there all week from last weeks storm and water is dirty as, if ya do go start at the gravel patch as the water is clearer there, it was real dirty out from the seaway, and i imagine it will be the same from tally, we weren't prepared to sit in the slop once the tide changed, it was like the bay on a bad day with 1.5 swell under the wind blown crap on top, which was a constant 18 kts and gusting above that. and white caps bloody everywhere,good luck if ya go. even the coast guard thought we were a lil crazy if we were to spend the night down there? so 1 last look and decided not to be belted from pillar to post, and even the lads in the coast guard looked pleased we were heading in beside them, a wave and we were off lookin for the car and trailer.

[Davo_Dinkum]

lovely

[noname]

also mark

it's not that swell that takes ages to get to ya, it's short and steep crap.

[tugger]

got back about an hour ago conditions were great the bar was flat at times but the water at palmy was dirty we moved out wider and got straight into good fish report and pics soon

mark

[noname]

brad rang me at 9 wanting to go, if it was earlier i would have gone back down there, spewin! lookin forward to the reports n pic's!!! we were gunna go down to tally and wait it out in the car park, damn it!

[tugger]

we were back at the ramp by 930am

[straddiebrad]

good one mark you do any better after you rung

[tugger]

yep

[tugger]

going to have a snooze

[straddiebrad]

that be right make me sweat :laugh:

[tugger]

got to the ramp at 4am and met brithepom with his tinnie ready he followed us out the bar , i jumped it very early without much light conditions were good but i think brian got a bit nervous in the smaller tinnie. we got to the palmy and i was able to get onto my spot but when the sun came up the water looked very dirty after the rains they had on the coast. we didn't stay long and decided to head out to the gravel patch and had another mate in his boat follow me out brian had to stay on the palmy without an epirb so we wished him luck. got to the patch with about 30 to 40 boats on it but this is a big reef and my spots were about 1km away from the other boats so we anchored. set our baits and started jigging for livies we had 1 small pike from the palmy so he went out straight away. the pike got hammered after about 2 minutes in the water and on my light gear this would be fun and after 5 minutes up came a little spanish mack. the berley started to bring on the spottie macks and we boated and lost a few in the next hour and my mate next to us was do about the same. a few of the other boats saw our action and decided to come over closer to us but a safe distance except for a big game boat that nearly trolled over our lines mmmmm. another bait went off after burleying hard and my son was next and after a good fight on another light rod about 10minutes up comes a spanish that topped mine. all up we got 4 spotties and 2 spanish and got back to the ramp by 930am and was home by 11am it was a great morning with no wind and small swell. all the fish were caught on the spinning reels with 9kilo line and my sons spanish went 1.1m long and went 10kilo

[tugger]

[tugger]

the 2 spanish macks

[fishingnut]

nice macks there mate

[tugger]

good fun on the egg beaters

[straddiebrad]

well done mark always coming home with the goods.brad

[tugger]

you'll have to follow us next time brad so u can get those gps marks the gravel patch really fires some times with the larger pelagics

[straddiebrad]

will do mate i think we put them in last time or is it a different spot

[tugger]

a wider spot and i have about a dozen marks on this patch

[Davo_Dinkum]

u do ok hey mark .

nice feed ya got there ,and the boy got on too .good stuff

sounds like from what rob said and u said it nice in the early morning and blow up in the arvo .

pretty much standard weather hey.

[big al]

nice fish there tugger but ha whats this being out done buy your son for biggest fish :ohmy: have you and your boy got a who has caught the biggest fish going al

[Leighton]

Great session, is the Gravel Patch straight out from Talle Bar? or the patch off Tugan?

[wesfish]

bloody mad session mark!! awesome macks

[tugger]

davo thats summer get out early before the wind

big al my son gives it to my other deckies if he's got the biggest he doesn't upset the skipper

leighton yes u should see the bridge through talle ck mouth to line up the reef

wes thanks and we should hit them up 1 day if u r keen

[AFO]

Admin Note: This thread as been moved as its more of a report now than a Going Fishing post.

Regards

[wesfish]

tugger wrote:

davo thats summer get out early before the wind

big al my son gives it to my other deckies if he's got the biggest he doesn't upset the skipper

leighton yes u should see the bridge through talle ck mouth to line up the reef

wes thanks and we should hit them up 1 day if u r keen

hell yeah mate, keen as keen can be lol

[Malcolm]

Great stuff Mark I bet your son was stoked or is he used to it all

[tugger]

he was complaining of being stuffed after fighting it but was still excited it was doing some powerful runs on the spin gear

Malcolm wrote:

Great stuff Mark I bet your son was stoked or is he used to it all

[Bri The Pom]

Hey Mark & Crew

well done great fish and thanks for the escort,wait till daylight before i hit the bar next time. :ohmy:

[yoyo]

great stuff tuger, a 1.1m spaniard would've given your young fella hell on 8kg spin gear!

[tugger]

bri the water was dirty in close shame u couldn't follow us out wider i'll try and borrow a epirb for u next time

yoyo he sat back the rest of the morning complaining about his arms

Bri The Pom wrote:

Hey Mark & Crew

well done great fish and thanks for the escort,wait till daylight before i hit the bar next time. :ohmy: