queensland north moreton artificial

[Huxstang]

Finally got back on the water in my boat after waiting a month for a service - didnt want to run too far over the first service interval.

With weather reports looking reasonable we decided to launch at Spinnaker and head out into the northern bay.  A bit of a later start as I had a golf function on and was pushed for time to prep boat….damn retirement is too busy at times.

Any on the water at 6.15am and the usual bit of bay chop but winds were relatively light.  Decided to pop into North Moreton Artificial to have a look as it didnt exist when Dad and I used to fish up this end of the bay.

I just love modern electronics….the combo of decent maps which mark the clumps of the artifical and the sounder being able to clearly pick up everything meant little wasted time.  Went over the south eastern clump and it was holding lots of bait with some nice bigger arches around schooling.  So assumed mackies or kingies.

Went to the north eastern section and it was similar so decided we would see what was around.  I already had a paddle tail plastic rigged up so when I saw fish flicking under the boat I quickly dropped it in and got my first hit, second cast converted to a nice rat yellow tail king fish.

Decided to floatline a pilly down and go back to casting plastics, and the pilly got belted and second king in the kill bag.

The plastic was then torn by another kingy so I rerigged a pilly.  Every drift was converting to fish as we drifted over the structure.

Bit started to drop as we headed into @ 9.30am so got a bit more weight on and converted to a nice grassie close to the structure.   Then another nice kingy.  There was definitely fish holding lower but too hard to get past the kings one the drift. 

All up we brought home 5 and released the rest.  

So last night was beautiful fresh king fish sashimi followed by King Island Rib Eye grilled on coals over at a mates place…washed down with Revel Brewing beers and west aussie reds…..what a glorious day.

[ellicat]

Nice work. Sounds like a great day. What time did you head back ? The wind picked up a bit of pace when it turned up.

Retirement is tough, but days like that make it worthwhile. haha

[Rebel]

Great report.

Give me your address, I am coming for dinner.

I also need a plane ticket.

Well done.

Cheers.

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Good stuff Huxstang, sounds like a good session on the kingies! 

[Huxstang]

3 hours ago, ellicat said:

Nice work. Sounds like a great day. What time did you head back ? The wind picked up a bit of pace when it turned up.

Retirement is tough, but days like that make it worthwhile. haha

All of the weather models showed the change @ 11am so that was the call.  I think we could have done maybe another hour but would have been a bit rougher crossing back across northern bay until behind Bribie.  

I wanted to head out to the FADS or Hutchies but it just didnt seem like it was going to settle down and of course why leave somewhere when you are catching.

Anyway North vs South - I am a southsider but was fishing on the north side, how will that go?

[ellicat]

Contestants can fish wherever they like, so Southsiders will continue to dominate with you on the team.