queensland A Few Trips Combined

[Another Wazza]

I had been keen to get out amongst it for a while and the weather and tides looked good today, I had second thoughts at 4am this morning though, it began raining pretty heavy while I was having a coffee, I checked the rain radar and it was pretty scattered, so I rolled the dice, hooked up the boat and took off, other then the grey sky, the weather wasn’t too bad at all.

first runs on the board came in they way of a 55cm school mackerel, he succumb to the old floating pilly technique.

Around the turn of the tide I found myself hooked up to a nice Jew, he fell for a Z Man curl tail, and put up a spirited fight on a 20lb baitcasting outfit, he managed to collect my floating pilly line during the fight, which made for some interesting net work, followed by some not so interesting untangling.

The Jew went around 84cm, not a horse, but still great fun.

A couple of weeks ago on a Friday, I ventured out in my mates boat, we left Vicky Pt around 7:30am and worked around some of the southern bay islands with limited success, about 11am we decided to work the Banana Banks with plastics, and it payed off, paddle tails and curl tails did all the damage.

The smallest lizard in the pic was a 45cm bar tail, we probably got another 4 or five that weren’t legal size though, and about 6 or so monster sized grinners, by the end of it neither of us were calling what fish it was, as the grinners broke our hearts too many times.The bay was like glass from the time we launched, right  throughout the day, you don’t get much better then that.

About a week before the lizard trip, I took my mate out around Amity, and could only scrounge up 1 schoolie off the old floating pilly trick, the grinners were thick as and quite brazen too, they were  smashing 7” plastics like they were going out of fashion.

The last 3 schoolies I’ve caught have all been 55cm, a bit of variety in size wouldn’t go astray, but I’m certainly not complaining.

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Hey Another Wazza

Those are some absolutely cracking session there, great job on the macks, lizards and the jewie!  

I can only dream of catching that many fish on a regular basis at the moment. 

Cheers Hamish  

[ellicat]

Thanks for the report. Looks like you'll have a few fillets in the fridge until next time. Bugger about the tangle. I took 10 years to untangle mine by throwing it in the bin. haha

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

16 minutes ago, ellicat said:

Thanks for the report. Looks like you'll have a few fillets in the fridge until next time. Bugger about the tangle. I took 10 years to untangle mine by throwing it in the bin. haha

Hi ellicat

Hahahaha, , LOL, that's right, the ten year old bird's nest. I think the baby birds that once lived in it would've grown up by now (Sorry for the bad joke).

Cheers Hamish

[Hweebe]

Nice Jew horse or not gotta be happy with that one. Where did you launch from and fish today?

[Another Wazza]

1 hour ago, Hweebe said:

Nice Jew horse or not gotta be happy with that one. Where did you launch from and fish today?

Cheers man, I left from Cleveland point this morning, and just fished the bay

[kmcrosby78]

Some nice sessions there mate and catching 55cm schoolies is better than catching 45cm ones ......  

[Fisherman's gear]

Very good read Wazza.  Question though, when you say float a pilly out, did you mean float it under a float or ballon? or small to no sinker let it drift down the water column.

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

4 hours ago, Fisherman's gear said:

Very good read Wazza.  Question though, when you say float a pilly out, did you mean float it under a float or ballon? or small to no sinker let it drift down the water column.

Hi Fisherman's gear

Only Another Wazza will know for sure, but I believe the terminology "floating a pilly out" is where you cast a pilly out the back, unweighted. This is a popular technique for Snapper fishing I believe. 

Cheers Hamish  

[Another Wazza]

7 hours ago, Fisherman's gear said:

Very good read Wazza.  Question though, when you say float a pilly out, did you mean float it under a float or ballon? or small to no sinker let it drift down the water column.

Hi there Fisherman’s gear, and thank you,  almost every time I go fishing I’ll throw an unweighted pilly out the back, let a decent amount of line go, and just leave it in the holder, depending on the current, it’will stay up top for a while, or sink slowly down,.

Ive always just called it a floater, and can see there’s a few ways one might interpret that. With no effort at all it’s accounted for some pretty decent catches in the past, cheers