queensland Manly Sunday 13/08/06

[Angus]

Gday Y'all.

Well we ditched the Mt crosby trip today.

The gar will have to wait for a another time.

With the lack of rain we have been having it might not have been to successful anyway.

Mat and Troy were raving about there day at Manly so Terry, Mat, Troy and I decided this might be a bit of fun. Worst case scenario: a lot of pike which at the very least would be entertaining.

With a stop at Tackle warehouse on the way to pick up some slugs (for Long Tom) we arrived at Manly harbour at 10:00am. The four of us were planning on hitting up some Long Tom first off, however the tide was quite far out so we head to harbour instead for hopefully some Pike and Trevally.

After flicking at the pontoon for only about 5 mins Terry was onto his first fish. (Good work to Terry his first fish on SP). Turned out to be a little Choppa Taylor and was quickly released. Not long after Ando was onto what was miscalled as a bream. Was actually a little Squire. Great to see fish like this coming right into the harbour! Not long again and Troy landed a nice little Giant Trevally. By this stage i was getting worried at still having no fish but the day was young and i was not to be worried for long.

Over the next 2 1/2 hours I managed 7 fish (6 Pike and 1 Moses Perch). One of the Pike was a monster. (Troy waiting on you for the measurement)? Also dropped two very close the edge.

Mat Managed in addition to the Squire another 3 fish, a Moses Perch and two Trevally.

Troy in addtion to the first Trevally caught another 5 fish, 2 Trevally, 2 Moses Perch and a Pike.

We did got back to the Long Tom spot X however besides a couple of follows had no luck.

All in all i had a great day and am really feeling some more confidence with the SP's. Next time ill be hard for one of those Trevally.

Mat and Troy stayed on longer than me so pictures and im sure some additions to what was caught will be added here later. You will notice that presently i am in the fish lead

Good fishing all.

Angus

PS Photo with my first pike for the day.

Post edited by: Angus, at: 2006/08/13 16:19 [img size=400]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/Pike.JPG

Post edited by: Angus, at: 2006/08/14 16:15

[nabs]

Hey

Sounds like a good day. I would have loved to come but i had to stay home and get ready for stradbroke trip..

and too bad about the longtom Angus, maybe next time.. they really are awesome to catch.

how big was the squire that mat got?

Cheers

[Angus]

Hey Nabs.

The squire was pretty small.

I was just happy to see it as a great Species catch as opposed to size if you know what i mean.

Angus

[BIG DAVE 1]

were you guys fishing the groins near the marina? cause ive heard theres jew around there. also at the marina theres this little resturant and underneath it its sworming with bream....bloody big bream at that.

DAVE

[Tim a]

Sounds like manly's been firing of late... I can't wait to get there on wednesday!

[Brian D]

How good are plastics? Sounds like a fun day getting all them different species on sp's.

[blue_mako]

gus: the pike you got was 44cms nabeels one from the day before was 45cms... and terrys tailor wasnt released very fast at all!! if anything it was dead after terry dropped it 5 times!

nabs: yeh the suire was pretty small

dave: ther is the rare jew there as we have heard but hardly any bream at all... way more trevs over bream

tim: i am going down again on thursday if you want to come then instead???

brian: yeh lots of fish caught on sps... i got some smashing hits by pike on liples crankbaits after gus and terry left when me and ando went to the mouth...

troy

[Angus]

Where are the picks troy??

[blue_mako]

ando has the camera... ask him! not me

troy

[Terry H]

lol. poor tailor. Angus: I have a pic of you and a pike, but the quality isn't good. I had the focus on the wrong setting:|

Also. If I remember correctly, Ando did a similar thing too:) (ok, but not quite as many times as me... haha)

Post edited by: TerryH, at: 2006/08/14 14:54

[blue_mako]

a reinactment of terrys catch... yay i got a fish errr ewww its a tailor drop drop drop

troy:P

jks mate

[Angus]

Troy with a little GT [img size=400]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/TroyTrev.JPG

[Angus]

Mat a little Squire.

Small but still great to see them come into the harbour.

And how many QLD Landbased squire do you hear of

[img size=400]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/Squire.JPG

[Angus]

Moses Perch

We got 4 of these all day.

But they were all in teh space of about 5mins.

Passing school? [img size=400]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/MosesPerch.JPG

[blue_mako]

pretty awesome day wasn't it boys... gus also got his top plastic session to date...

loving that little gt!

put up the pike pic terry... is it the biger one he got? i wonder if ando will put up his...

troy

[stingray]

I know this is not Manly, But it was in the Bay.

Seeing as you are all showing off your little fish , I was think i will as well :whistle: [img size=144]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/little_fella.jpg

Post edited by: stingray, at: 2006/08/15 21:54

[BIG DAVE 1]

If you want a good lure/sp for squire use the squidge bugs or those mailbro feather jigs, we got taken and snapped off by a steam train on one. heres a photo of a squire on a bug

[Angus]

Yeah and those last two posts where relevent to the Report.

Angus

[ando_04]

it was a good day

[blue_mako]

yeh gus very relevant... if you want to catch squire landbased dave... fish for other fish and hope you get one as bycatch... manly seems to have slowed down since the first 2 trips of being there... hopefully it will fire again!

troy