queensland Anzac Bay Session

[Ovington]

Snuck out on ANZAC day for a bit of an explore with a friend I have been promising a dolphin tour to for ages. Given the boat traffic I figured fishing the bay would be a waste of time but of course took a bunch of rods anyway and hit the water at first light.

The bay was glassed out and shot out to peel and dropped some lures on a reef on the south for a while for nothing but a grinner so decided to follow the tide up onto the flats.

As I approached a rock bar my first cast landed me a just shy of legal snapper on a cultiva sp which was fun, the next 3 casts all accounted for a different species and fish also. Firstly a Grass tusky, then a black spotted estuary cod followed by a bream just over 30cm. Cracking start!! 

I continued around the mangroves and managed a tailor of about 50cm on the bream gear too followed by a stonker bream of 35cm fork. As I followed some schooling mullet around I saw a large silhouette follow my small diver and its mouth open wide. The fish turned its head before the boat without grabbing the hooks and followed by three of his mates cruised by. 4 Kingfish in 1.5m of water at peel!!! My heart was pumping and I threw some larger stickbaits around for no joy but was awesome to witness anyway. 

I then headed over to goat and managed 2 more smallish cod and a squid before moving to dunwich. We saw some dolphins on the way which got that responsibility off my chest. Ellie also managed her first fish ever with a respectable flathead. I nailed another squid  (on a bream lure hah) and we decided to go for a swim at the passage. On the way home we spotted a few dugongs to finish things off. 

Overall ended up with 15 fish of 11 species and 2 squid! Good day considering the traffic. 

[timtam_]

Great report mate!! Those bream never look as big as they do in real life  

[Ovington]

23 minutes ago, timtam_ said:

Great report mate!! Those bream never look as big as they do in real life  

I know right! Haha it was so chunky. 

[Angus]

Awesome mixed bag mate.

Sensational session!

[Old Scaley]

Some good fish there, big O. I like the lines on your boat, very nice.  It was a magic day on the bay even if it was a bit busy.

[Ovington]

30 minutes ago, Old Scaley said:

Some good fish there, big O. I like the lines on your boat, very nice.  It was a magic day on the bay even if it was a bit busy.

Cheers mate. Yeah it is one of the prettier poly boats you see in my opinion. Yeah hah the only chop on the bay was wake!

[kmcrosby78]

Cracking shallow bay session there mate, especially on a busy day. Great bream and very decent tailor and seeing the kingies would have been exhilirating!!  Well done!

[Luke Landrunner]

Fantastic day out there Shane and ticked all the boxes plus a few extra !