1770 and brissy river

[darcy]

Cant usually be bothered posting but have just come back from a trip to 1770. Caught some mad fish but definately wasnt easy with so many boats raping up there. Had a two good days offshore were the fish wanted to play the game. Over 2 days we had a tally of 15 cobia, 8 amberjack, 2 goldens (both over a metre), 15+ tealeaf trevs and a few reefies. The first day we fished for 6 hours and we were playing fish for at least 5hours of that time which was mad fun. With the biggest cobe at 135-140 taking me just over an hour to land. The golden trev went 101 and the biggest cobe weighed 30kg+.We were using 7inch placcys, knife jigs and pe tackle flies just hopping them over the bottom. Was running 5kg+ drag the whole time which gave you a good workout. Also a few pics of some fish from the river just before the rain. cheers darcy ill let the pics do most of the talking.

mad double in the river on plastics

brissy river gt went hard as on 4lb leader

little jewwyyyy

a lot of fish

82cm amberjack

[darcy]

one more ahah

[Tryme]

Thanks a awesome session man, cant wait for the weather to clear up as i want to hit the water.

[plugga]

Sick as Cobia bro,

oi do u go to MCA?

[nadders]

sounds like a good trip mate some nice fish boated, well done. good way to go out on a bang before the mass rain lol

cheers

Dan

[hooked_on_trout]

wow those Cobia are a different looking fish, well done on some nice catches.

Good pics.

Cheers

[adambris]

nice report mate, some top fish there. did u do any land based? heading up for chrissy, looking for help!

adam

[rosstralia46]

awesome mate what size sol and what ound line you using on it

[Genesis]

Absolutely awesome! Thanks for sharing the report and photos!!

[straddiebrad]

bet those cobs tested the gear a bit good on ya mate thanks for sharing.

[wesfish]

fantastic action!! :woohoo: awesome pics of quality fish did you get a pic of the 30kg+ cobia?

[darcy]

nice report mate, some top fish there. did u do any land based? heading up for chrissy, looking for help!

adam

hey dude we only fished surface landbased and did pretty well we got a couple different species of trevs, massive pike and small queenies just pick a slack tide on dusk or dawn. it is pretty raped up there though am not going to lie.

awesome mate what size sol and what ound line you using on it

its a sol 2000 with some pe crap braid on it ( 10lb i think)

hey wesfish i honestly thought that some of the fish in the photos above would have been 30kg maybe im wrong but i dont know if you have caught cobes before but they are solid as me.

cheers for everyones comments

[ellicat]

........

definately wasnt easy with so many boats raping up there. .....

Certainly looks that way.

I guess you wont bother going back :whistle:

:laugh:

[eg_vtec]

well done mate. quality fishhh

[wesfish]

all good mate! crazy insane action on that gear!! i would have guest a mated around 20kg which is still monster cobes!!

[Fishguts]

the water looks sooooooo good,complete glass out

[darcy]

the water looks sooooooo good,complete glass out

hey man the second day was awesome was just glass but on the first day it took 2 and half hours to get out with a average speed of 19km with a 1.5-2.5m swell and 15-20knot winds but once we got out there all the wind stopped. was still the roughest trip i have ever been through and we also had to go through a breaking 4-5ft bar ahah was worth it but.

[mick fillet]

thats a top effort , all quality fish awsomeB)

[Hughesy]

nice one good cobes

[Angus]

Reading through all the ROTM reports. Good work Darcy!

And congrats on the BRC yak

Angus

[dhess]

Top effort on big cobes like that using such light gear.

How far were you guys fishing off 1770?

[darcy]

about 60-70ks offshore i believe. Would have been better to do an allnighter at fitzroy or something so many boats fish 1770 most of the stuff under 50ks is crap. cheers darcy

[dhess]

Last few trips up there we fished around fitzroy and had some good catches. Was just wondering if the cobes were in closer as we went over some nice ground about 10ks out on the way there and found more awesome ground about 45km's out that produced some really good red emperor and sweetlip.

[Fishguts]

the water looks delicious

[darcy]

hey dhess what do you guys get your reds on? we fished bottom for a bit and all we got were tealeafs . The place 10kms out is a wreck and if crap like 90% of the time but when you get it good you catch heaps.

[adambris]

nice report mate, some top fish there. did u do any land based? heading up for chrissy, looking for help!

adam

hey dude we only fished surface landbased and did pretty well we got a couple different species of trevs, massive pike and small queenies just pick a slack tide on dusk or dawn. it is pretty raped up there though am not going to lie.

what areas did you do this in? river? rocks?

[darcy]

nice report mate, some top fish there. did u do any land based? heading up for chrissy, looking for help!

adam

hey dude we only fished surface landbased and did pretty well we got a couple different species of trevs, massive pike and small queenies just pick a slack tide on dusk or dawn. it is pretty raped up there though am not going to lie.

what areas did you do this in? river? rocks?

We fished the rocks near the campground, the rocks near the mouth and the boat ramp forgot to mention we got some mad bream next to the mariner some were easy 35 (all on surface). We didnt catch anything huge but still solid 40cm trevs and big pike good fun on the light stuff.

[dhess]

hey dhess what do you guys get your reds on? we fished bottom for a bit and all we got were tealeafs . The place 10kms out is a wreck and if crap like 90% of the time but when you get it good you catch heaps.

We get most of our reds fishing large pieces of mullet or any large cut dead bait. Anywhere from half to a whole mullet fillet on two snelled hooks fished on or near the bottom using a standard running sinker rig.

I am so itching to get back up that way again. But boy is it a long way home from fitroy if it blows up 20+knots and you have to head home straight into it.