queensland Cant Sleep Gotta Go Fishing!!!

[francomas777]

Hey Guys,

After yesterdays session on the tuna and being up so early i decided to head to bed for a few hours as i was soo tired.

Later that night around 12 i was lying in bed and couldn't for the life of me get back to sleep.

Called my mate to see if he was keen to go out for a few hours and try and get some snapper on plastics and within an hour i was on my way to pick him up.

Got to the boat ramp around 2:00am and headed straight to fishermans island.

Caught a heaps of little squire around the 25 - 30cm mark which was fun.

Landed these 3 bigger guys 1 after the other in between 3 and 4am.

After that everything pretty much died down and we were tired as hell by this point and we were back to the boat ramp around 5:30am, got home and went straight to bed.

Hope you like the post cheers.

[wesfish]

freaking unreal sp session franco!! really good quality snaps!! could not sleep after all that action hey ? :laugh:

[pinkey]

That's a pretty sweet session! what weight jigheads did you use?

[Ashhley]

awesome stuff,

[francomas777]

pinkey wrote:

That's a pretty sweet session! what weight jigheads did you use?

cheers mate i am using 1/12oz

[francomas777]

wesfish wrote:

freaking unreal sp session franco!! really good quality snaps!! could not sleep after all that action hey ? :laugh:

haha na mate all i was thinking was going back out. cheers

[Angus]

Nice one Franco!

Good snaps. I bet your not missing your job!

Angus

[kmcrosby78]

Awesome snapper Franco. My brother got busted off by something decent last Monday - I thought it was a decent snapper and this seems to support my belief.

I need to get back out there again, rather than just replying to your catches!!!!

[Old Scaley]

Franco, the sooner you get a full time job and a busy family life the sooner we can all get a decent night's sleep! Save some for the rest of us, mate! You're killing me with all these great reports.

[francomas777]

Old Scaley wrote:

Franco, the sooner you get a full time job and a busy family life the sooner we can all get a decent night's sleep! Save some for the rest of us, mate! You're killing me with all these great reports.

haha dont worry mate you will be happy to know that most of my fish are released i dont really like eating them apart from tuna sashimi hahaha

[piscione88]

next time call me bananna

[elops]

Nice Snapper Franco, 4' pearl watermelon powerbait 1/12 jighead one of my favourite combos.

[Smiderman]

A Happy Snaps session mate. certainly beats stairing at the ceiling..... what depth Franco

[francomas777]

Smiderman wrote:

A Happy Snaps session mate. certainly beats stairing at the ceiling..... what depth Franco

cheers the fish were taken in about 7-12m of water

[Angus]

Geeez that Steez is a sexy reel.

Angus

[francomas777]

Angus wrote:

Geeez that Steez is a sexy reel.

Angus

yer mate got it last week and i think i am in love! :laugh:

[Do$tylz]

yeah thats what I spotted too man Daiwa make some bloody good looking reels.

Good catches man. 2am random sessions.... might have to try one of those.

[francomas777]

Do$tylz wrote:

yeah thats what I spotted too man Daiwa make some bloody good looking reels.

Good catches man. 2am random sessions.... might have to try one of those.

cheers Henry haha the random sessions always seem to pull off for me

[roger]

Were they on the bottom or mid water? Must have been bugger all current to be fishing 1/12th in 7-12?

[chris_stewart14]

Did you have a dorky jumper on prior to the photos? $hit man, I'd be cutting glass with my nips if I was in a T-shirt at 3am in 15 knots.

[francomas777]

chris_stewart14 wrote:

Did you have a dorky jumper on prior to the photos? $hit man, I'd be cutting glass with my nips if I was in a T-shirt at 3am in 15 knots.

haha it was freezing but we sat behing the wall to block out most the wind. tell me when your catching fish and fighting them for 10 -15 mins at a time i think the temp is the last thing on my mind buddy haha :laugh:

[francomas777]

roger wrote:

Were they on the bottom or mid water? Must have been bugger all current to be fishing 1/12th in 7-12?

they were taking them on the drop im guessing about 3/4 of the way down. use as light jighead as you can, snapper in the river and mouth hate weight.

[Funfisher]

that 60 somthin is a cracker fish nice one

[francomas777]

Funfisher wrote:

that 60 somthin is a cracker fish nice one

cheers mate he put some hurt on me haha

[hooked_on_trout]

well done, I know the can't sleep feeling and it's a lot of fun just to get out because you know the tide is good (also nice and quiet too late at night).

Could I ask what plastics your using?

they look green.

cheers

[francomas777]

hooked_on_trout wrote:

well done, I know the can't sleep feeling and it's a lot of fun just to get out because you know the tide is good (also nice and quiet too late at night).

Could I ask what plastics your using?

they look green.

cheers

cheers mate i was using 4" berkey minnows in the pearl watermelon colour

[hooked_on_trout]

francomas777 wrote:

hooked_on_trout wrote:

well done, I know the can't sleep feeling and it's a lot of fun just to get out because you know the tide is good (also nice and quiet too late at night).

Could I ask what plastics your using?

they look green.

cheers

cheers mate i was using 4" berkey minnows in the pearl watermelon colour

thanks hey

nice to know the greens are good in the Brisbane area..

cheers for the reply

[yoyo]

Puckern 'ell franco, you get onto some sweet fish ! well done Bro...

[fishingnut]

Nice fish and nice gear too franco

[FishoDave]

mate great looking session

makes the early morning worth it