queensland Christmas Eve report

[Luvit]

I headed out  yesterday with Luke and James with the intention of catching some mackerel before sunset.  We hit a couple of the Beacons a few hours before dark and there were plenty of mackerel around. We had a good time hooking and losing 6 fish and losing another five that liked the slugs. Boated 2 nice school mac's at 80cm each and a small one we let go.

We had some dinner and played UNO for a while before bunkering down for the night. 

After a restless sleep and getting some light rain through the night I got up at 4:30am and headed towards the cape with the kids stil in their swags.

Ran over some bait and threw out a bibbed lure to see what was around and had a hit but no hook up. While still making my way to Cape Moreton I saw a small free swimming Marlin. Woke the boys up to have a look and threw a soft plastic in front of it but it showed no interest.

We set a lure spread and headed off in search of Dolphin Fish. While the wind was down we headed wide to the 100m line. 

No hits at all but a few heavy showers. I saw some bait appear on the sounder and slowed down. Then the big fish appeared.

I put the boat into neutral and free spooled the shot gun 6" soft plastic lure while I pulled the other rods in. By the time I did this the 1oz jig head had made its way down towards the fish. The sounder showed them as high as 35m from the surface. Picking up the rod I was a bit excited. A couple of twitches to get their attention before a high speed retrieve on the new Stradic FK I bought myself for Chrissy.  10 meters up the lure is crunched by a good fish. Giving the drag a good workout as it headed for the bottom. Such a smooth drag with carbon washers as standard on the new Stradics. After about 5-10 minutes arms aching we looked over the edge in anticipation to see what is was.

A beautiful yellow tail was a give away. A PB King fish of over 10kg and 1.1 meter long. What a start, but unfortunately the wind kicked in and the sea turned to crap instantly. It was too dangerous for the kids to fight a fish in these conditions so pulled the pin and ran home. 

Unfortunately I had not replaced the SD card in the good camera from last trip so only got an ordinary photo when we got home.

A trip to remember for us.

Have a safe break everyone.

 

 

 

 

 

[kmcrosby78]

Cracker kingie Wayne and some very solid schoolies too. I went to the Measured Mile beacons yesterday with my brother but we could only find small ones with the biggest going 45cm which was frustrating but still fun to be out.  Have a great Xmas mate.

[Luvit]

Thanks,

We were north of the bay Kel. Only visited 2 beacons and both had fish. The guys using live bait and floating pillies were getting plenty.

[Old Scaley]

Sensational kingie, Wayne. You are having a good year.

[bersim]

Awesome kingie Wayne!  Sounds like you and your boys had a great trip!  And man they are starting to look like their bigger brother!

[Oggy174]

Quality fish well done @Luvit  

[Angus]

Extremely jealous of that kingy!

[Luvit]

It wasn't off the rocks so it doesn't count.

[crazywalrus]

nice kingie Wayne