queensland North Stradbroke Island - 11th-12th August 2007

[Angus]

Hey everyone.

Went to straddy for teh weekend to check out the folks new pad. Its awesome.

More importantly its a short stroll to one of my favourite fishing spots ever.

Dune Rocks.

I spent a couple of hours each day fishing it and had great sessions.

Usually i would use a surf rod down there, however due to the amazing weather i decided to give my lighter gear a go.

I got lots of small bream and dart, but my stand out catches were 15 bream 34cm and over. Smallest was obviously 34cm and the largest was 37 1/2 (all measurements to the fork).

This goes down as my best bream session for both numbers and size

All fish caught on 8lb braid with a 10lb leader, Shimano 25000 Twin Power, Starlo Stick and 4'' Pumpkin Seed Gulps.

Ill let the pictures tell the rest.

Looking down at Dune Rocks.

Gutter/Lagoons with rocks like this produced most of the fish.

This guy bagged this snapper by spear only meters from the shore

Dad and I AFO repping.

The old man rock hopping.

All different fish

Cheers.

Angus

Post edited by: Angus, at: 2007/08/13 14:00

Post edited by: Angus, at: 2007/08/13 14:03

[reef_raider]

great work gus... sounds like a great weekend... do they need any visitors

[Angus]

I might put the rent through myself

Angus

[STU]

Awesome land based bream session on plastics Angus how did your old man go.

[Angus]

Dad lost a few and caught a couple of choppas.

We actually both dropped an amazing number of fish. We would easily get 3 runs for every landed fish. I dont know what the go was, they would be on for a good 10 secs but then just spit the hook. Decent fish as well.

Angus

[Plastic Man]

thats some awesome breaming angus nice big breambos looks like a great place too

[Angus]

Ill hopefully be going over for 2 weeks during my christmas breaks. I am looking forward to really exploring and getting the know the place well.

Anyone want to visit

Angus

[Gazza]

Looks like a very nice spot and great fish too well done

Gaz

[pinkey]

A dream trip, nice work

[flathead]

hell ill come

[jeff f]

future stradbroke classics are looking good for angus...

[ellicat]

Good weekend for it Angus, and it looks like you made the most of it. Something about bream in those sorts of areas makes them much more aggressive and fun to catch. Yeehaa

[mackmauler]

nice bream angus, clean and solid, thats a nice spot that one, great place over there.

[Cowfish13]

Good fish. How many fish did you get each hour?

And a Twin Power 25000, I didn't know they made them that big. . Jokes

[Tim a]

Thats frikking awsome bream session angus! I'll visit! I'm guessing you didn't try Dunwich then?

[James W]

yer gus they are nice breambos mate...well done...and in paradiseB)

tell ya old man he took some great photos too:)

[Feral]

Good on ya - so thats the new shirts eh?

got photo's up in the shop yet?

[Angus]

Feral: I took a couple of pics ill get them up in teh shop ASAP. My home computer is on Dial up speed at the moment so anything takes ages.

Tim: Mate tried dunwich at dawn for one estuary cod. Tried everything i knew, and what you told me, but could not raise a hit from a trev.

Ellicate: Dam right about them hitting. These fish gave seriously impressive fights. Lucky bream are not inclined to run into holes or i would not have landed one. Each fish took easily a couple of meters of drag on their first runs.

Cowfish: Hahah, woops. I did of course mean a 2500

Angus

[mojo]

Very nice work Angus, one of my favourite spots but last time the swell was around 2 metres , looks like you had absolutely ideal conditions.

Any tailor? maybe they were the ones spitting the hooks?

Usually get a few round there.

Did you try around the headlands or the flinders beach gutters at all?

Good old pumpkinseed gulps..what jighead did you use if you dont mind me asking?

cheers

Joe

[Cowfish13]

I knew what you ment. How do you find that reel? As I thinking of buying that exact type for both Bream in estuaries and Snapper in the bay. And is the spare spool the same as the normal one?