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Hey All, 

Been a while since I have posted about a fishing trip,  Been heaps slack,  not doing much fishing since around late September and with work being very hectic found myself with barely any time to get on the water.  

Left the ramp early around 4am Australia Day morning headed for some ground south of Cape Moreton with intentions of Chasing a Black Marlin & maybe a offshore snapper if they wanted play the game .  Good run across the Northern Bay in the dark although very shallow in a few areas causing some detours around some white water 😞. 

Anchored up around 545am ish in some wonderful conditions ,  1st few baits we had some mac tuna hammering our floating baits  which helped wake us up and get the blood pumping . 

After deploying some burley and the mac tuna thankfully going away - I was up first with a good hook up on what felt like a nice snapper,  only to pull the hooks  - I quickly retied a new hook on and put another bait out and instantly hooked up to what I called a good snapper - this thing went super hard for the structure and had me in the bottom for a few tense moments,

Bit of rod work and up came a nice size Jew.  around the 9kg mark,  which was released to fight another day.   Kept at is for about another 15mins with a few runs and a few bust ups, 

My mate hooked a good fish which ended up being a nice spangle emperor around 6kg mark and despatched quickly to the esky, I was up again this time with a nice snapper around 5kg which went in the ice slurry as well. another 10mins past and I was blown away 2 more times on 40lb O/head gear with not much else I could do , felt like a passenger holding a fishing rod. re-rigged again, wound the drag up on the Talica 16 and sent another bait back in the burley trail but not as far back to the structure as normal and stopped it , let is float there in the current for a bit and the it started screaming off, this fish was no where near the caliber of the of beast from previous hook ups but still good,  bit of a tussle and up popped a nice snapper around 5kg - it went straight to esky also,  Seems I was on I fire with hook up and the deckie not getting a single bite.  I put another bait out and locked the rod in the holder set ready to go again. 

I decided to chuck a bit of sunscreen on as the sun was coming out from behind the clouds and was heating up,  whilst doing this my rod screamed of again. I asked the deckie to grab this one and sort it out ,  this fish fought well and in no time  I slid the next under a nice snapper around 5-6kg . Straight to the esky he went.  

By this stage is was getting to around 8am and we started hearing some radio chatter about Marlin to the North of us around the Caloundra Wide area. So we rigged up out last baits set them back around similar distance and I started cleaning all the boat up and the deckie started getting the trolling rods ready , after about 10mins stuffing around ,  my rod went absolutely nuts.  locked it into gear and I was howling - got to work on pretty quick and went hard trying to turn this around. This thing played stale mate and ran hard along the bottom and literality pulling me to the back corner of the boat - Unsure if this was an even bigger Jew or snapper, once I had him coming up I started playing it safe and let my rod do the work. Deckie was on the net & ready and done a top job getting this bad boy in the boat - PB for me for Spangled Emporer going 8kg on Popey's scales last night.

From there we headed North Trolling for Marlin managing to hook one out off Caloundra around 11.30am. Jumped off pretty quick,  pretty happy to get a bite considering my 1st attempt ever at trolling for marlin.. 

Headed for home around 1pm in nice conditions.  

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Cheers Josh <><

 

 

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Hweebe said:

Welcome to AFO, if the info isn’t already on here after a search start a post on the forum you will the AFO regulars are always keen to share some knowledge and advice.

That's more helpful then the 'be good to your mother' advice I was going to offer @Hweebe ........ 🙂. Yep, pays to be specific.

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Geez Josh, imagine what you would have caught if you weren't rusty ........ 😜. That's an awesome morning on the water, especially for what was a VERY busy day on the water - we were at the Raby Bay dog beach and the number of boats coming back in, mostly 3 or 4 at a time, was incredible. Did you have many boats in your area?

Shame about the marlin but good to get a hookup - well done. Next time!!  Oh and not a fan of eating jewies or just prefer them smaller?

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8 hours ago, kmcrosby78 said:

Geez Josh, imagine what you would have caught if you weren't rusty ........ 😜. That's an awesome morning on the water, especially for what was a VERY busy day on the water - we were at the Raby Bay dog beach and the number of boats coming back in, mostly 3 or 4 at a time, was incredible. Did you have many boats in your area?

Shame about the marlin but good to get a hookup - well done. Next time!!  Oh and not a fan of eating jewies or just prefer them smaller?

We where lucky and didn't have any boats come with in about 500m of us which was great, Not a fan of Jew from around the cape - from experience they normally have worms which is a turn off for me.  Only keep them if they don't survive on release - which this one kicked off and swam real well back to the bottom. 

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58 minutes ago, Andrew_P said:

And the spangleds taste good from the Cape? Have had some awful ones from the southern GBR

Don't mind the spangles from the Cape shallows,  ice them down real good for day prior to cleaning and shallow flash fry them in bite size pieces and they seem to be ok,  if you cook them in large pieces they can be a bit chewy. 

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Hey @Cobiaaddict, I did note one thing you are doing wrong. When the sun is out you put your hat on, when it’s cloudy you can take it off, not the other way round. Now, if you come out as deckie (or skipper, your choice) on my boat and you teach me how to catch those bigguns, I’m prepared to teach you hat etiquette. How’s that for a deal?

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