queensland Water Spouts , Whales and a PB Jobfish

[tugger]

Went out with Nathan and Lindsay today all AFO crew to fish offshore with great expectations of good weather and big fish. The weather was perfect all day with a few storms in the distance giving us a spectacular display.

The whales are starting to show up again with a few spotted jumping out wide of us. On the fishing scene it was a slowish day but we persisted and made sure we had livies out the back while still chasing reefies as well. Always happy to see a big parrot show up.

A few big hits on livies with a big green jobfish taking a live trevaly and my new PB going over 110cm and 17kg

Nathan got another smaller jobfish as well earlier before the big 1 hit

Lindsay got a good moses perch and in the end we slowly put together a feed with everyone getting the usual solid runs with bust offs at the end, bloody unstopables

By the way Nathan did you end up with anything on those plastics

[Jords]

Thats awesome mate!

[benno573]

Cracker jobbie mate.

[Young_fella]

Love your reports Mark! Had so much fun out on your boat last time. Great pics!

[Manni79]

Nice report mate, well done on the PB !!

[woody1]

Awesome catch as usual. Those shots of the water spout are great! you should send them to the news, they will put them up in the weather report. Does anyone else see what looks like a marlin jumping into the water spout in the first pic? or am I going crazy haha

[kreel]

Just the 8 fish then... :blush:

Who cares how many when you get a Job Fish like that! Well done mate and I love the water spout shots. Good luck for the rest of the week.

[Angus]

Awesome photo's mate!

I thought youd find it tough to top that last huge Jobie!

Angus

[Keen-as-fisho]

Nice jobby mate :woohoo:

[PlasticFantastic]

Awesome Job Fish and cool photos of the water spout too, if I was a bit more experienced with the yak boat rock is one spot i'd like to try.

Cheers

Mark

[RedHerring]

Nice Pics of the sea storms.

Big thick head on that JobFish no wonder they chomp a trev down.

Very nice catch.

[plugga]

wow thats a solid fish.

great stuff

jordan

[dhess]

Unbelievably cool jobie. Christ, how big do they grow never thought they went much over 10kg.

[Do$tylz]

massive jobfish there.. awesome catch. Was it another big silver trev that you used mate?

[Surfingant]

Great effort, cracking jobfish there looks like you boys will be eating well.

[ryanyoung]

Fantastic pics Mark, with a decent feed to boot!

Cheers,

Ryan.

[neal82]

Awesome jobbie Mark! Hows the shoulder after dealing with that brute?

love those shots of the water spouts.

[Malcolm]

Unreal Mark What an animal

[keen_as]

Awesome fish mate, great pics too.

[etran]

persistence paid off, congrats on the pb ! looks like its gonna be a good dinner :woohoo:

[fishingnut]

There is ya shoulder work out you were after! nice one

[dassa]

WOW what a jobbie great fish thanks

[wesfish]

job well done!!!!! :woohoo: :woohoo: monster jobby mate

[ellicat]

Monster fish. Shoulder reconstruction booked in yet ?

What plastic did the damage today ?

Those spouts are awesome to see. At what point/proximity do you consider a move ?

[daveylad]

great fish there Tugg, looks like you were dressed for the cold it looks like youve got a few layers of fleecies on.

[jnewy]

great post now that is a big fish love the pics have to catch up for a fish with you again soon thanks jnewy :evil:

[tugger]

Yeah Henry another silver trev and hooked him on the back stinger treble hook and we floated another trev straight out only to last 5 minutes before it got taken to the bottom without us getting to it

massive jobfish there.. awesome catch. Was it another big silver trev that you used mate?

[tugger]

Sholder is quite sore but i was still happy landing him

Awesome jobbie Mark! Hows the shoulder after dealing with that brute?

love those shots of the water spouts.

[tyrion]

Nice joby mark those spouts were an awesome sight. Plenty of current out there yesterday not to much came on board for us just small reefies

[tugger]

Thought that might have been you and we had little to no current where we were behind the rock

[tugger]

Just read up about them in Ernie Grants guide to fishes book and it says that Rosie jobfish grow to 90cm long and 10 kg but the green jobfish grow to just on the meter mark and 16kg but this puppy was over 1.1m and just on 17kg. The other interesting thing it said was they hunt in packs of 4 or 5 big fellas and we had another livie put out straight away then not lasting more than 5 minutes before being taking to the bottom with it more than likely another big jobie :dry:

Unbelievably cool jobie. Christ, how big do they grow never thought they went much over 10kg.

[Abureelman]

Had a search on the 'net last night and I could only find references for Jobies getting up to max. 1.1 so looks like it is a 'Holy Grail' fish.

I know I'll never forget those teeth trying to eat their way through the net. Congrats again on such a monumental catch and the privilege to go out again on the TuggBoat.

Thanks,

Lindsay

[eg_vtec]

monster mate! well done on the pb

[tugger]

The holy grail mmmmmmm i should of bathed in its blood and to think there was probably a few of them there that morning good to know i got close to catching a fish near its max its like old man against old man

Had a search on the 'net last night and I could only find references for Jobies getting up to max. 1.1 so looks like it is a 'Holy Grail' fish.

I know I'll never forget those teeth trying to eat their way through the net. Congrats again on such a monumental catch and the privilege to go out again on the TuggBoat.

Thanks,

Lindsay

[buckat list]

awesome fish tugger, im going out with the family on sunday, do i have to book a spot at your rock.warwick , buckat list

[Abureelman]

The holy grail mmmmmmm i should of bathed in its blood and to think there was probably a few of them there that morning good to know i got close to catching a fish near its max its like old man against old man

If you remember, we did bath our feet in its blood for quite a while

[Guest]

Great report mate, well done on the PB...Really enjoyed the read/pictures

Top Work

[tugger]

No you just have to tell the parking attendent you know me :whistle:

awesome fish tugger, im going out with the family on sunday, do i have to book a spot at your rock.warwick , buckat list

[straddiebrad]

what do yar say cracker mark would have put a few cm on the arms.

[fishing_teen]

thats one big job fish, well done guys