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The weekend come around with some good weather so we hit up the reef out of Turkey beach for a few days. The coral trout were good quality along with big red throat and cod.
We snorkelled around lunch on Saturday in the shallows then we anchored up Saturday night in the same spot and had a glass out on Sunday.
A few sharks got some of our big trout but most fish made the deck. I'm already keen to do another trip up there fingers crossed for good weather.
 

All,
Got the new boat on the water end of October 2023 and what a ride it's been, done plenty of trips to break her in, mainly chasing squid and chasing Tuskies which I loved doing in my teens with my Dad.
1st trip was on the tuskies was 2 weeks before I got my boat,  i headed out with a good mate in his boat to see if any of my old hunting grounds still held the elusive blackspot and wouldn't you know it 2nd drop with a rather large sleepy crab wich spells big trouble at this spot in some rather ordinary seas off Moreton Island I was on,  under locked drag, with 80lb braid and 120lb leader I was hooked up to a dinosaur of a blackspot Tuskfish that was running hard for the coffee rock ledge, after some very intense spool thumbing and some grunting I'd managed to to turn this fish and have it heading my way until it decided it wanted that rock some more ,  with a few ugly rod angles and a few more grunts I managed to get him boat side for netting and my 1st blackspot in 20 + yrs was on the floor of the boat and we was in absolute awe of the colours this fish went, ended weighing in at a modest 10.2kg after being bled. 
Enough rambling, I'll let everyone enjoy the pics
Cheers Josh <><
 

of dead ones in the pots plus small tilapia.

of dead ones in the pots plus small tilapia.

Good to see you smashing them again.
regards
neil

team south Tai Bui nice yella NPD 3/3/24

of dead ones in the pots plus small tilapia.

team south Tai Bui nice yella NPD 3/3/24

team south Tai Bui nice yella NPD 3/3/24

team south Tai Bui nice yella NPD 3/3/24

of dead ones in the pots plus small tilapia.

of dead ones in the pots plus small tilapia.

of dead ones in the pots plus small tilapia.

team south Tai Bui nice yella NPD 3/3/24

team south Tai Bui nice yella NPD 3/3/24

team south Tai Bui nice yella NPD 3/3/24

As some of you know I work on Straddie for a few months of the year and get a chance to occasionally wet a line. I like fishing at Amity Point because of the variety of fish that are there, and that you never know what you will get from one trip to another. As well as the usual spangled emperor, squire, Moses Perch and grassies, this time I got some tuskfish and Eva got to catch her first ever black spotted tuskfish. Black spotted tuskfish are probably rarely taken land based so to get a few was very rewarding. They go like submarines. Probably the most unusual landbased catch on this trip was a gold spot pigfish (safely released). 

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