queensland two reports in one

[Zim man]

Hi All

i went fishing last friday with Al (biggles) but have been slack with the report and i was out today with Khoi (51mple) and thought i would combine the two reports.

Friday saw Al and i fishing at my usual location. I had a few sample lures from Damiki that i needed to give a bash as well as giving my new brand Pontoon 21 products a good going over.

we started at daylight and we used a combnation of Damiki saemi's, 3 inch armor shads, and pontoon 21 crackjack48's.

Long story short was about 10 fish each, i got a trev of +/- 40cm on a crackjack 48, Al got the biggest flathead of 55cm and bream of 33cm on the new damiki lure. A few fish each to the Saemi and armor shad, but the majority of fish were caught on the Crackjack 48 and the greedy guts 55 hardbodies.

here are some pics from the friday

Trip #2

Khoi and i have been planning a trip for a while now and this morning we set off. being a creature of comfort, the location was obvious. We got there at sunrise and started the days fishing. This time my main lure of choice was a crackjack 38mm. in about an hour i was 4 fish up on khoi who was having a bad day with wind knots and dropped fish. In those 4 fish, was a good 58-60cm flathead that luckily did not engulf the lure.

We changed spots and were busy discussing various hardbody retrieves when Khoi MU-Sp was slammed by an awesome bream. It would be easily the biggest i have seen in the coomera. Unfortunaly the owner hooks straightened and the big un got away. Khoi's bad luck continued.

Fishing was slow hook up wise, but we had alot of missed hits and alot of fish followng the lure to the boat. I started changing lures to see how others performed and tried a slow sinking stick/jerkbait called a gagagoon. This lure has great potential. I got a pike on it and then a nice flathead of around 50cm.

Khoi then got in on the action with a bream on the crackjack 38mm and then khoi tried the gagagoon i had tied on. This lure soon won Khoi over with constant hits and follow ins. There was a bust up near the boat and we started working the area with our hardbodies. Next thing Khois rod buckles under as a nice trev slams the gagagoon.

Last fish of the day was a little flathead that took a liking to the gagagoon and that brought todays adventure to an end. I now need to get my minn kota serviced as it statyed making some wierd sounds like metal on metal and i saw that a rubber seal and broken up.

What a long report, thanks for reading guys

[Angus]

Awesome Rob.

I would consider those very successful product tests!

First time a P21 lure has hit the water in Aus?

Angus

[fishguru5]

some nice fish there mate. never had any luck on hard bodies except blades. keep it up

pat

[Zim man]

Angus wrote:

Awesome Rob.

I would consider those very successful product tests!

First time a P21 lure has hit the water in Aus?

Angus

The first catch on a gagagoon. i used them two weeks ago in the canals with scope on a pic collecting mission. One of my pro staff got an 88cm jew on the greedy guts on his 3rd cast with 3lb line. he is leading the pontoon big fish race.i cant wait to chase some jacks with the bigge lures

[Joel Eadie]

thats an awesome report, great pic quality

[Keen-as-fisho]

Wanna swap jobs???? :laugh:

[HookedOnTackle]

great report

now i want some pontoons.... we going to be able to score some before SOO?

[kreel]

Those Pontoons do look good, any chance we can see/buy some down at the SoOrigin?

[dan25]

Great couple of sessions mate and nice pics. Well done

[Zim man]

kreel wrote:

Those Pontoons do look good, any chance we can see/buy some down at the SoOrigin?

The first shipment will arrive in late august early september and will be the 38mm crackjack. Angus, Henry and Jono all have a couple that i am sure you wrestle from them for a gander. :laugh:

[51MPL]

Lovely write-up Rob! Can't wait til next time..

[dassa]

It looks like I'll be taking them from there cold dead hands :laugh: :laugh: and what kind of dollars are we looking at for them

cheers dassa

[Angus]

Hahaha. I will be trying them out this saturday with Khoi and Juls.

Dont want to jynx myself but I hope I have one left to show at Origin.

After all if you are not gettting the odd snag your not fishing hard enough

Angus

[wesfish]

2 very nice productive sessions there mate!! topstuff with great pics of awesome fish.

hey a bit off topic but i remember a lil while ago you had trouble getting a fast pace out of your 25,, out of curiousity what holes do you have the trim pin at? it might just be the pics but it looks trimmed down to far, i have mine set on the 3rd holes from transom for maximum pace. could be the pace problem as mine with it trimmed down on bottom hole loses 8-12kph top speed.

[Zim man]

hi wesfish, i will try that out and see how it goes. I did change props as per your pm and there was a 100% major improvement in performance. Will give the 3rd hole a go next time out :dry:

[Robertos]

wow nice catches fellas.. gotta pick me up some of those pontoons aswell

dead keen, great report well done

[Scope]

Top couple of reports there Rob - Khoi that is an awesome trev for the coomera - keep up the good work!

[51MPL]

It was a hard day for me.. It went from "If this cast doesn't catch a fish" (epic afc skip casts between jetty/boat hulls) to "If this cast doesn't catch a fish *pause* it'll just be like all the others haha!

Dropped a decent bream and missed so many hits too.. Got to a point where they would just tease me - fish on they're side feeding in the shallows, follows right up to the boat and random fish feeding in plain sight haha.

[Scope]

Zim man wrote:

kreel wrote:

Those Pontoons do look good, any chance we can see/buy some down at the SoOrigin?

The first shipment will arrive in late august early september and will be the 38mm crackjack. Angus, Henry and Jono all have a couple that i am sure you wrestle from them for a gander. :laugh:

Make that Jono having one less now - some sort of big tailor or trev near peel island now has one also :blush:

[51MPL]

ooh nice jono, what kinda retrieve did you get him on?

[Scope]

Was mixing it up between slow rolling retrieve and twitch pause retrieve Khoi. Landed a couple of trevs that way and got smoked by something. Ropeable!!! What were you guys finding worked best???

[51MPL]

Ask Rob lol.. didn't matter what i did i couldn't hookup T__T

Slow roll failed, then went to a more aggressive jerk jerk pause retrieve to try entice a reaction strike.. Eventually went to the old faithful roll w/ rod pointed at the water and random twitches and pauses.

pm u now about a fish this week!