queensland Summer Update

[Ovington]

Hi everyone, its been a while since I have posted as I have been really busy so I thought I would do a quick update of the last couple months.

Just before Christmas I took my boat out to the cape for the first time for an unlucky start to my gamefishing out of my boat with a bite off in the first 15 minutes and a lost dollie that looked to be well above a meter. I wasn't sure of my ocean range so called it a day early to play it safe given my boat is a 15ft bass boat. The following week the forcast looked ideal and I had heard the spotties had been biting off the goldy so I made the call to head down and go through the seaway for a morning mackerel session followed by a troll out wide. The mackerel didnt make a show so I headed wide whilst the wind was still light. I deployed the lures and within 10 minutes the biggest lure in the spread got hit but did not connect. I kept trolling the area (36Fathoms) and finally connected to a nice little black to christen my boat. The waves by this stage were breaking over the sides so a tag was put in and it was quickly released. I started trolling back in as it was getting uncomfortable and my girlfriend was burleying more then she would like to admit. Stoked to Christen the boat with a good offshore fish.  IMG_0181Trim.mp4

 

Just after Christmas I headed down to my hometown of narooma, unfortunately I was met with strong winds and swells of 4m. I only managed 1 trip offshore where we caught a bunch of small dolphinfish, some small kings and mixed reefies. So I reverted my attention to getting some young family friends onto their first fish as well as chasing some bream and flathead in the creeks. I struggled to find bream in the creeks but managed over half a dozen flatties on sugapens. I did manage a few bream with the biggest being 40cm off the surface. With the estuary being a bit slow I had a spin on the beaches but with huge swells it made it difficult but my persistence paid off with a solid tailor. 

I returned to Brisbane and was dying for another crack offshore but the weather had other ideas. I managed one good session in the bay on spotties around the beacons where I managed a good feed and all fish being over 70cm but still havent managed to get offshore again. With the recent rain I have been focusing on run off and drains and have picked up a fair few Giant Herring and a random lure eating mullet. 

 

 

[Angus]

And wow. Out of nowhere my favourite set of pictures in ages. Good to hear from you mate.

Angus

[Drop Bear]

Wow some great adventures there. Thanks for sharing. love seeing the herring and the flathead with sugar pen in it. Thanks for a great read  Btw that boat looks fantastic. 

[ellicat]

Well we can see quite clearly what you've been busy doing ! haha That's a pretty decent summer.

[Old Scaley]

Great report and simply brilliant photos. Thanks.

[Ovington]

Cheers guys. Hasn't been too bad I just want this wind to bugger off 

[kmcrosby78]

Awesome report & photos and some very nice fish there, well done! 

[Drop Bear]

2 hours ago, Ovington said:

Cheers guys. Hasn't been too bad I just want this wind to bugger off 

Wednesday is looking mint

[Drop Bear]

Just now, Drop Bear said:

Wednesday is looking mint

But Thursday is looking better.

[Ovington]

9 hours ago, Drop Bear said:

But Thursday is looking better.

Im off to Borumba for a couple days do will miss my shot offshore until next week. Guess I cant complain 

[Luke Landrunner]

Some top sessions there Shane !

 

[Drop Bear]

29 minutes ago, Ovington said:

Im off to Borumba for a couple days do will miss my shot offshore until next week. Guess I cant complain 

Nice one! I have not fished Borumba and would love to hear how you go. 

[Luvit]

Congratulations on your first Black Marlin. A better than average size fish by the photo. 

The spoils of being a very versatile angler shows in the pictures. 

Well done. 

 

[Ovington]

1 hour ago, Luvit said:

Congratulations on your first Black Marlin. A better than average size fish by the photo. 

The spoils of being a very versatile angler shows in the pictures. 

Well done. 

 

Thanks mate, not my first but my first from my little boat. Yea there isnt a form of fishing I don't enjoy! 

[bowds13]

Awesome stuff mate, I have just started getting in to game fishing from my 4.5m, I am yet to have a real crack out of the cape though.

Are you running a short/long corner from rod riggers?, trying to work out the best formula for a small boat.

 

cheers

[Ovington]

41 minutes ago, bowds13 said:

Awesome stuff mate, I have just started getting in to game fishing from my 4.5m, I am yet to have a real crack out of the cape though.

Are you running a short/long corner from rod riggers?, trying to work out the best formula for a small boat.

 

cheers

Hey mate, yea I am hitting the cape tomorrow morning I think. I am just running straight out of the rod holders at the moment as I am normally solo so 3 rods is more then enough although i do plan on getting some more outeard facing ones for a wider spread. Normally I run one long corner (60m) one mid corner about 40m and a short one in the prop wash in the center.

[bowds13]

Did you end up getting out mate?

i went and chased long tails yesterday which proved to be a fail.

[Ovington]

Yeah I had a look around the cape for a few hours for no touches other then a couple schoolies then went back in the bay and found a couple more schoolies and dropped a longy too

[Drop Bear]

On 3/3/2018 at 10:37 AM, Ovington said:

Yeah I had a look around the cape for a few hours for no touches other then a couple schoolies then went back in the bay and found a couple more schoolies and dropped a longy too

Glad to hear there are some around.