queensland Boxing Day Fishing - Hells yeah!

[Angus]

Well while the rest of Brisbane either nursed Christmas hangovers or watched the cricket, Do$stylz, Danny and I decided we would try and risk the rain and head for a plastics session at Wello! We were the 2nd trailer there and saw bugger all boats launch for the rest of the day.

It was amazing.

Glassy conditions and mostly dry weather made it an awesome day.

We even believe the heavy cloud cover prolonged the bite and didnt even give us much rain.

Could not have been more perfect.

A lot of fish were caught, and even more dropped as we were being a bit silly (and will again) with ultra light gear, mainly our 1000 reels (Stellas, Exists and Stradics) with 4lb and 6lb braids.

So much happened its hard to give a coherant picture so ill let the photo's do the talking...

Pre Dawn Grassy

Danny is on!

First legal squire of the day at 36cm. (Mind you I got my arse handed to me just before this).

Moses.

54cm Bar Tail Flatty. I used to this species only in miniature so this was sweet.

More grassy.

My fish of the day! 45cm's of snapper on 4lb! Woot!

I wondered why this guy gave up half way

Good to meet you plasticfantastic as well!

Angus

[dan25]

Awesome stuff guys!. some good pics and fish, must ave been fun on the light gear that's for sure. Top effort

[rosstralia46]

awesome session gus and a nice snap there to would have gone like the clappers on 4lb

[PlasticFantastic]

Nce work guys you did better than I did and yeah the weather wasn't all that bad and no one out there taking advantage of it. Great to meet you guys and thanks for the heads up on where to fish at Wello I'll remember that for next time.

Cheers

Mark

[Angus]

awesome session gus and a nice snap there to would have gone like the clappers on 4lb

Lots of drag screaming runs, in fact I think Henry got some film footage...

Really happy when I saw the colour!

Angus

[AngryBundyBear]

Awsome stuff there guys the only thing i caught today was more debt picked up 2 of Zimmans ultr light damiki angel ex rods one for me and one for my dad also a 2500 stadic to go on my Shimano jewel (so my stradic 1000 that was on the jewel can go on the Angel ex) and around 5 packs of armour shads and a sienna 1000 for dads Angel ex, cant wait to get out and give it a crack...

[rosstralia46]

awesome session gus and a nice snap there to would have gone like the clappers on 4lb

Lots of drag screaming runs, in fact I think Henry got some film footage...

Really happy when I saw the colour!

Angus

would be great to see the video

[Angus]

Awsome stuff there guys the only thing i caught today was more debt picked up 2 of Zimmans ultr light damiki angel ex rods one for me and one for my dad also a 2500 stadic to go on my Shimano jewel (so my stradic 1000 that was on the jewel can go on the Angel ex) and around 5 packs of armour shads and a sienna 1000 for dads Angel ex, cant wait to get out and give it a crack...

If it makes you feel any better all my better fish today were caught on 3 Inch Armour Shads

My absolute favourite plastics for the last few months with no close 2nds...

Angus

[AngryBundyBear]

hahahah thats what i brought Rob said they were your flavour of the month in the skin blue thinking of going up to bribie when the weather gets a little better to have a go around whitepatch on the low tide might even rope Ryan Young into it make a day of it...

[tomca]

Great fun when its that shallow. You get owned big time there. Luck plays a huge part when a good fish jumps on.

Good on ya's for getting out there.

[Keen-as-fisho]

Good 'ol Wello, love it. I always prefere fishing there on an over cast/wet day. Good to see you guys got onto a few, shame you didn't land the toothy that ate the mosses :laugh:

[Young_fella]

Well while the rest of Brisbane either nursed Christmas hangovers or watched the cricket

I'll have you know Angus I did neither of those 2 things. I was at home looking at the new rod and reel wishing I was fishing....

[Angus]

Good 'ol Wello, love it. I always prefere fishing there on an over cast/wet day. Good to see you guys got onto a few, shame you didn't land the toothy that ate the mosses :laugh:

Actually we caught another moses and tried to do just that however the life bait was very lively and bricked us :pinch:

Angus

[tugger]

good to see you guys having a great day on the water it also gives me something to read at work, thanks for the report

[ellicat]

That's big for a bar tail ! :woohoo: I've caught quite a few at Wello. Must be a favourite hangout.

Seems the weather was kinder to you than it appeared from my window

I expect we'll see pics of the squire in a recipe post soon ?

[Perky]

Great effort getting out in the rain guys, that is real commitment. You got to love the armor shads, probably one of the better shads around.

[kmcrosby78]

Great fish there guys - would have been a fun session. I have to take the tinny to Wello sometime - is it just shoals there that you guys drift over?

[Do$tylz]

just converting the video now to load up.

kmcrosby, mate we just went out and found some water where it went from about 7/6m to 3.5m over a 200m drift. Honestly quite close to the shore.

Angus forgot to mention we went through the Raby Bay canals as well... got 1 small bream on a popper right where I called for one too. haha. The fishing on 4lb/4lb was quite frustrating for me. Kept getting busted off even whe playing them lightly....6lb next time

[bootyinblue]

Great sess boys..... call me next time, I want to explore that area more!

[eg_vtec]

awsome session guys

[Angus]

just converting the video now to load up.

kmcrosby, mate we just went out and found some water where it went from about 7/6m to 3.5m over a 200m drift. Honestly quite close to the shore.

Angus forgot to mention we went through the Raby Bay canals as well... got 1 small bream on a popper right where I called for one too. haha. The fishing on 4lb/4lb was quite frustrating for me. Kept getting busted off even whe playing them lightly....6lb next time

Ah yeah, sorry forgot about Raby Bay. Potential.

Thanks for the comments guys.

This would have to be one of my favourite types of fishing.

Light gear plastics and solid fish.

Angus

[fergie]

good to see you guys brave the conditions and come up trumps.

well done.

[Genesis]

That is a very good size snapper on light tackle, Angus. Nice work on bringing it up!

[Angus]

That's big for a bar tail ! :woohoo: I've caught quite a few at Wello. Must be a favourite hangout.

Seems the weather was kinder to you than it appeared from my window

I expect we'll see pics of the squire in a recipe post soon ?

Ok mate.

Squire with a lemon aoli on a butter bean salad. Not to much green stuff

[51MPL]

awsome work guys

[ryanyoung]

Great work there fellas, good to see the odd fishing report amongst this foul weather

Cheers,

Ryan.

[Angus]

Great work there fellas, good to see the odd fishing report amongst this foul weather

Cheers,

Ryan.

Funnily enough mate, for anyone that was bothered to be on the bay, it was stunning weather,

Grey skies sure, but we prob had 30 minutes of drizzle for 8 hours of none.

Worthy ratio id say

Angus

[Do$tylz]

Here's the vid of Angus' snapper. Just caught the tail end of the fight... had to load it up to youtube coz the AFO loader won't take it.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M0VLKYuXEw

[Angus]

Cheers for the filming Henry.

Good reliving that

Angus

[mick fillet]

. hell yeah nice vid and commentary

the live bait that bricked ya haha

nice session fellas

[fisherjack1394]

Top stuff guys always good fun using light gear. Angus are you still keen for BP dam sometime in the newyears. me and dad are fine to tow the boat there as long as it dose not clash with one of my cricket days. Water has been flowing into the dam for a few days now which will cover most of the weed beds that i was fishing with like 20ft of water. I might be heading there sometime soon to see if anythings changed anyway.