queensland Wind makes it hard

[tugger]

Got out with a few mates over the weekend and chased some fish offshore the bar was flat but 10 minutes further on it got very lumpy. We trvaeled a few hundred meters in this slop then nestled in behind the rock in the flat water that you get with the wirlpools created by the current rapping around the rock. With the usual rig floated down in the burley trail the fish were on the bite briefly as i predicted around the tide change but it didn't last long. We persisted on and had some unstopables grab the odd bait along with lots of undersize snapper, meanwhile the whales put on a terifict show. They were leaping out of the water very close, tail slapping for 10 minutes at a time a 2 passed right under the boat. The next tide change saw another run of fish then it was time to call it a day with a good feed in the box we set off and found the bar again flat during our run home.

[tugger]

a nice cod going 72cm and tasted great

[tugger]

these whales passed right under the boat

[mick fillet]

wow :woohoo: good size cod, yum,yum

[ellicat]

Surprised to see a whole trev on the brag mat :laugh:

Ripper size cod for a feed. Do you reckon the "unstoppables" were relatives ?

PS Do the whales put the fish off ?

[Bri The Pom]

Hey Mark, Don't you have to cut the fins off reef fish if you keep them or am i mixed up with something else or other fish.

Cheers

Bri

[tugger]

going to see how the trev tastes and have found the northly wind puts the fish off, we have got some ripper fish while the whales have been jumping around us

ellicat wrote:

Surprised to see a whole trev on the brag mat :laugh:

Ripper size cod for a feed. Do you reckon the "unstoppables" were relatives ?

PS Do the whales put the fish off ?

[tugger]

the cod and moses perch have to have 1 side fin removed but not the snapper, there is a list with the dpi on what fish have to be clipped and remember for mackerel season spanish macks also need clipping

Bri The Pom wrote:

Hey Mark, Don't you have to cut the fins off reef fish if you keep them or am i mixed up with something else or other fish.

Cheers

Bri

[straddiebrad]

great work on the cod,sorry i couldnt make it out had a big night might get out this weekend and try for some of those unstoppables that see to bust you up on every trip out have to land one sooner or later,well done guys.brad mate whats withe the snapper on the left of the mat at the top did it get hit on the way in

[Keen-as-fisho]

Very nice cod

[tugger]

i think something had a bit of a taste of that snap it was the one i caught and at 1 stage it pulled pretty hard for it's size

straddiebrad wrote:

great work on the cod,sorry i couldnt make it out had a big night might get out this weekend and try for some of those unstoppables that see to bust you up on every trip out have to land one sooner or later,well done guys.brad mate whats withe the snapper on the left of the mat at the top did it get hit on the way in

[kreel]

Looks like another good trip out Tugg and the size seems to be working its way up - where's that 10kg fish?