queensland Scarborough Reefs Light Up!

[sunnydays]

Hey Guys!

Andrew (Gloomy Samurai) and myself fished the north reef and surrounding rocky outcrops this morning on our kayaks. There was a light S/E blowing and the chop was around 1-2 feet - Perfect conditions for stalking bream in the shallow reefs!

The last few sessions I have had there with Dan25 were tough, but the fish have really come on there again which is good to see. I am not sure if this is due to the rain, the significantly smaller amount of jellies in the water, or another factor that I am completely oblivious too!

Anyway, the morning started out with a nice bream (37ttf) boated, and a couple of unstop-ables. I suspect the unstop-ables where snapper that took wild runs and dusted Andrew on the reef. I was very happy to land my new PB of 37ttf on a Flash J Fish Arrow courtesy of Khoi (thanks mate!)

The morning progressed and some smaller bream were boated and dropped on hardbodies and plastics. Atomic deep cranks, Daimiki Armour Shads, Zman Grubz, and Daimiki D Grubs were all producing interest from the bream. I tried to stay clear of the gulp and bream prawns for change today!

All of a sudden, Andrew is on to nice bream that he is able to steer away from the reef edge. Andrew did very well to land this 38ttf stonker on a P21 Crackjack 44dsr. I think a PB for him too?

I am slightly insane and like to fish for 9 hours at a time, so I said fairwell to Andrew and thanked him for an enjoyable morning. On his way back, he could'nt resist one last flick and got smoked by something that took 50m of line. I didn't know this until he texted me later.

Surprisingly, I had one last flick on the way back and got smoked as well. I have never been smoked like that at the reefs before. I cast back in the same spot, and bang... smoked again! This time I wasn't taking no for an answer. I changed up to 6lb leader. Cast. Smoked! :evil:

By this time I was pretty peeved and some expelitves were inevitable!!! I pesisted in casting at these fish and finally was able to pull one of their heads away from the reef. I assume it was a samller specimen as it didn't run anywhere near as hard as the previous models, but I was happy none the less to land my PB 51cm Snapper on 6lb in shallow reef! :cheer:

The perfect pan sized snapper was released back to its nursery so one of you boys can catch it when it grows up a little!

Cheers for reading, and thanks Andrew for a great day!

[Cobiaaddict]

Some good fish mate... Will be few good bay squire around now the water is starting to clear up

[Gloomy Samurai]

Great report Justin and thanks for a fantastic day. Congrats on your snapper, sorry I wasn't there to see it.

I'm also pleased you didn't mention the bit about the dunking we both nearly took :whistle:

Cheers

Andrew

[samsteele115]

Congrats on the pb!! Great report and nice fish. Will be hitting the canals there this week in my tinny hopefully

[tomca]

for some reason the pink fish don't play fair there. More likely some sweetlip were on the chew, they run straight down and bust you up in no time there.

Looks like a good time was had.

Andrew i might text you during the week if I get a chance to get a line wet.

[Surfingant]

Bloody great session there guys, gratz on the pb's

[fishingnut]

Well done, very jealous !

[Manni79]

Nice report Justin and some very nice fish, well done

[JarrydA]

Congrats on the pb's fellas! Looks like a cracker day on the water. I wish i had luck like that on those reefs. They are never that good to me! :whistle:

[Seiran]

Hooray a fishing report :woohoo:

Nice yak session there guys. Well done on the PB's.

[freedomhawk12]

great post sunny, ive always wanted to head to scarborough reef in my hobie, but a little hesitant to go by myself, and wife loaded up trailer with rubbish yesterday so couldnt use it to tag along.

anyway seems like the snapper are out and about now.

[51MPL]

Bloody good work there Justin & Andrew!

I'm glad the lures worked for you =]

Did you blood the duff yet mate?

[Zim man]

excellent report mate, i enjoyed the read. if you want, you can post the damiki and pontoon captures on the facebook page, it may win the monthly as well

cheers

rob

[rosstralia46]

Nice stuff mate some good quality breambos and pink fish

[Angus]

Very nice mate!

Awesome.

[sunnydays]

Bloody good work there Justin & Andrew!

I'm glad the lures worked for you =]

Did you blood the duff yet mate?

You wouldn't believe it... second cast, PB bream!. I caught the snapper on the x842. Got a cheeky little somethin' somethin' arriving sometime this week!

PS I am very impressed with the flash J's. I didn't think there could be a lure more effective than a gulp shrimp or armour shad!

cheers

[sunnydays]

Great report Justin and thanks for a fantastic day. Congrats on your snapper, sorry I wasn't there to see it.

I'm also pleased you didn't mention the bit about the dunking we both nearly took :whistle:

Cheers

Andrew

Shhh... I'm trying to make us look good!

[qbkami]

nice guys i wish i could have came!

[Hfisho77]

awesome stuff guys, spewing I didnt hit reddy yesterday now, decided to try somewhere a bit closer to home.. without too much success!

[crazywalrus]

hey great report Justin. they are some great bream there boys. Also some very good selfies as well. I have been dusted there as well. Exciting for a few seconds.

[mick2me]

Well done on PB guys and what a nice little Snapps there mate, enjoyed the read, but also made me a little jealous... Might have to revisit the bay again myself this week as it seems the fish are on the bite again...

Cheers

[ghendoaus]

THanks for a great report - I wish it had been me! I was there and saw that sunrise and it was awesome! I, however didn't see any of the fish!

[Keen-as-fisho]

Good stuff Justin I had a feeling the fish arrow flash j's would work well out there :woohoo: Its a shame to say but I am jealous as at this moment its been almost 2 whole weeks since my last fishing fix and being here in the Whitsundays to Mackay region its even harder