queensland The Bay

[ablong]

With the weather looking fantastic on seabreeze yesterday i decided to finish work early, collect a couple of mates and head out to the four beacons! Ive been dying to have a decent bay fishing session but the northerlys have been making it had for me to get out in the bay in 4.5m blue fin

We launched at the Fishermans Island ramp (cant wait until the pontoon is fishished) and with it being a little gustier then forecasted we launched the boat and began the trip over, it was a little slow but all in all pretty cruisy run over to the beacons!

With lots of fish showing up on the sounder everone began to get excited, then we spotted a small kingy sitting between the pylons and could see him follow the lures and that was all, after a couple of drifts and one bite we decided to move up to curtain and fish the slack water! I was fishing a white 5inch damiki armour shad and the first drift i pick up a nice little 42cm squire, second drift and in came a 56cm squire, 3rd drift i feel a little nibble and set the hooks, zzzzzzzzzzzzzz "yep this a little better" after about 5minutes a nice 72cm Snapper swims nicely into the net, mean while another mate has pulled in two undersize and the other mate is still fishless. so we start the motor and begin the next drift, by now the other boys have swaped to the same plastic and jig head my mate calls out "theres huge fish on the sounder" zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz im on again and this ones nearly reached my backing in the first run 10mins later and im starting to make good ground on him and starting to think it may be bigger another 10mintues and hes beginging to come up but now im feeling the line rub against his teeth and with my heart pumping a nice 87cm 8kg snapper is on the boat high fives all around! "one more drift boys and well stop at tangalooma for a beer then we better head back before the winds get up" the on the last drift the other two boys pick up and 38cm and another 56cm came aboard, the 38 ended up going back as we had plenty for our three families ended up having a quick beer and getting ice and took some happy snaps before the long and slow ride back across the bay which was beginging to get a little messy so it wasnt alot of fun great days fishing though, thanks for reading

[eg_vtec]

nice session mate! well done

[Hfisho77]

wow, congrats mate thats an absolutely awesome session and some horse fish, good to hear you got them all on plastics too

[Shane69]

Well done mate. We were at beacons in morning with not much luck. Nice snaps ypu gpot there.

We saw the kingy too at the beacons there was 3 of them when we were there 6am. We tried everything it followed the lure but didnt hit it. Maybe take the spear gun next time :whistle:

How calm was the bay in the morning. We got back before it started getting choppy

[Guest]

geez! thats one hell of a session! hope i can get onto that sort of action sometime soon! very very solid effor there mate!

[Carter]

Superb fishing by anyones standards, well done

[madmullet]

what a cracking sesh, great stuff.

[plugga]

nice snaps mate

Jordan

[Bluevien]

All top catches... would you look at the quality!!

Well done.

[Scope]

Awesome stuff mate!

[cy1301]

What a fantastic sesh, envy!!!!

[ablong]

thanks guys was a great day in the bay

haha yeah that kingy was fustrating, im the kinda person who could sit there allday until I had it in the boat, we didnt leave the ramp until about 9 and was jst starting to pick up then

[fishing_teen]

looks like you had a top sesh well done

[tugger]

Great report keep em coming that is a ripper snapper session in the bay

[Howie]

Well done mate! was just thinking myself if there was any reports of good snapper in the bay....this answers my question...with CRACKING snapper!

Shaun

[Homer4duff]

Awesome work. They look fantastic and it sounds like u had a great time.

Thanks for the report.

[Shane69]

Hey mate what jigheads were you using to get the plastics down.

Shane

[ablong]

i was using the squidgy resin 3/8 heads, took a little while to get down but got better as the tidal flow dropped and seem to work well the only thing was the big snap nearly straighten the hook

[butcham]

Great session for the bay, some awesome fish there well done !!!

[rosstralia46]

Awesome stuff mate

[Guest]

Well Done boys, thats a great report

Enjoyed the read & pictures

Cheers

Darren