queensland Australia Day Long Weekend

[Fishaman]

I got away over the long weekend up to my block at Agnes Water. I had booked a day on Hooked on 1770 charters run by Damo. (Highly recommend him, he works hard to get his crew a feed). We headed out about 20 mile to our first spot in nice conditions. A couple of Tuskies hit the deck at the first drop but that was it. We spent the next few hours working hard to cratch up a few fish. There was a heap of current with the new moon and things were tough. But as i said Damo works hard and he kept moving and we ended up out on the eastern side of Fitzroy and started to fill the esky. I ended up with 4 nice RTE, 3 trout, 3 tuskies, an Iron Jaw, a moses perch and a few hussar. Out of the 7 of us on the charter I reckon I did ok

 

 

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Hi Fishaman 

That's some great stuff, I can only dream about catching those fish  

Were you using dead bait on a paternoster rig or livies?

Cheers Hamish  

[buzzard]

Fishaman that is similar to the haul I got off double island point. Is that a Tailor I see in there?Well done...Buzzard

[Old Scaley]

Very tasty haul there @Fishaman. Is that fish up in the top tray the Iron Jaw? Is it some sort of jobfish?

[tugger]

Even in fishos paradise you still have to work hard good bag in the end

[kmcrosby78]

Nice haul of fish there, yum!! I haven't heard of Iron Jaw either - intrigued  

[Gad]

rosy/rusty jobfish, Kelvin.

 

[Fishaman]

On 31/01/2020 at 9:37 AM, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Hi Fishaman 

That's some great stuff, I can only dream about catching those fish  

Were you using dead bait on a paternoster rig or livies?

Cheers Hamish  

Yeah went with paternosta rig and pretty big lead as the current was ripping. Everyone said I was mad until I was landing fish while they mucked about untangling each others lines.  We used squid and strip baits. A bit hard to find livies in the warmer water this time of year.

On 31/01/2020 at 3:41 PM, buzzard said:

Fishaman that is similar to the haul I got off double island point. Is that a Tailor I see in there?Well done...Buzzard

Iron jaw was what Damo named it, pert of the job fish family. Will be interested to see how it tastes

On 31/01/2020 at 3:52 PM, Old Scaley said:

Very tasty haul there @Fishaman. Is that fish up in the top tray the Iron Jaw? Is it some sort of jobfish?

Thats a big mahwong in the tray. We tried to revive it and let it go but it was cooked so one of the guys took it home for his neighbour that he hates. The iron jaw is between the moses perch and the tuskies

 

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Hi Fishaman

That sounds good, it's funny how you were pulling them up when everyone else said you wouldn't

Cheers Hamish