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Thanks mate I went on Week days, try to avoid the weekends if I can

They’re for the table mate, occasionally I might keep some for bait but prefer to eat them. It’s definitely an arduous task sitting down to peel a bucket of prawns to cry Vac. But the amount of reef and beef and crumbed prawn tacos Ive been eating makes it worth while.

Well it’s that time of year to dust off the top pockets and have a throw. Went for my first two sessions for the year over the past two weeks and did quite well. Both sessions saw me and a mate get two buckets of prawns per session in under two hours. All of the prawns were of a good size too aswell as a few casts with heavy pockets. This was to be expected due to the decent amount of rain we’ve had compared to the last two seasons. Any way looks like it’ll be a cracker season especially once they start to show up around The southern bay islands and nudgee. By the time they migrate to these locations I reckon they will be pretty solid. So if anyone is keen to get out now is the time as they are definitely on!!

Nice work mate good result on the bull shark too

Jeez it sure is real nice to come home with a full esky

Gotta love palmy when you can be out in just a few mins from the ramp and still nail good fish even when there’s a whole fleet of boats around

Good sesh mate all quality fish too!

Good session lads, nice to see the POB producing. And well done Hamish on your PB snaps

What ramp is that?

Nice snapper there mate, good to see a plus 70cm model from harries in summer too.

Thanks mate, been eating fillets every day for over a week now bloody good.

What sort of boat you got there mate? Is that a seaaddex?

Well done mate, your really starting to get some thready numbers on the board now!

It’s a cootacraft, has twin 200 hp Suzuki engines, it has a seven hundred litre tank but we burnt roughly 520 litres for the trip I think. Which isn’t too bad considering the boat is nearly 8 metres long and we would comfortably do 30knots offshore. I would have used about 450 to 480 in my six metre plate boat with a single 150 and would have been belted all over the joint and would have had to take two big auxiliary tanks which makes it crowded

Nice session mate well done

Cheers bro, yeah the drive home is a killer, everyone one wants to take first shift and no one wants to drive the last few hundred coz we’re all wrecked. This time we couldn’t handle it and pulled up on the side of the road at Tiaro slept for about five hours then hit the road again. Was the safe thing to do.

Not to sure kelvin as I didn’t measure it I just knew it was bigger than any that I had caught before. It was a total fluke as I dropped a massive squid with a 12 ball sinker my mates yelled out there was two huge dollies under the boat. Next thing I know there was no weight on my line and the braid started to go horizontal, luckily I had the brains to quickly back the drag of sunset to a more acceptable level for Pelagics lol . I think the boat is about 7.5 close to 8 metres it’s hands down the best boat I have been in. Apparently there real popular down south I think there’s a 3 year wait to get one built custom. It turned what is 4 hour trip in my boat into about 2.5 hrs. He got No change out of 200k though. So much space though and just eats the chop. And still gets 1km per litre fully loaded up and doing 30 knots

Anything but coral trout lol, tbh red throat would have to be close to my favourite along side red emporer. But it all tastes pretty good I just find coral trout to be a bit bland.

Thanks Hamish. We fish talicas and torsas generally talica tens and twelves on 40 to 60 lb line but when we know the reds are around we pull out the torsa 20’s and 30’s and fish 80lb line and leader especially if the sharks are about!

Been months since I got out for a fish. So was more than happy to get an invite to head up north and launch from turkey beach to hunt down some reds and other big reefies. We left brissy on Monday night for the seven hour journey north. Arived at turkey beach at some ungodly hour and launched the boat for the 120km trip out to innamincka shoals. Got out there in good time to drop our first baits not long after sunrise on Tuesday. Fishing was a bit slow at first but we were getting the usual small reefies such as parrot various cods and plenty of hussar which were kept for big fillet baits. We sounded around for about 40 mins to find some good isolated lumps to drop over sized baits on and from this point on the big fish started coming onboard quite consistently. the sharks were up to there usual tricks but spent the day nailing some nice gold band snapper, red emporer and nannygai. In all my years of heading up here, this was by far the best weather I had experienced. IMG_0989.MP4 Day one saw four nannygai, five reds and over a dozen gold band hit the deck so the call was made to head south to broomfield reef and anchor up for the night then chase some trout in the shallows before heading home at lunch time on day two. woke up before the sun up and had a quick feed then commenced chasing trout. The trout weren’t really playing the game initially but after dropping down sinker sizes we managed to get six or seven coral trout and coronation trout on board and plenty of Maori cod too. By this point the sharks were really becoming a pain so the call was made to move After this we went out to the 60 metre line for a last attempt at some good red fish we ended up with two more nannygai and one more red so we were stoked. I even managed to nail my pb dolly and a not bad cobia aswell. with more than enough fish to last our families (and very select friends lol) for months we pointed the boat home for a smooth trip back to the ramp in glass conditions. All in all was one of the best trips I’d had up there, especially considering the last one was full of all sorts of engine and boat dramas. FullSizeRender.mov

Nice work mate, good sessions with the family

Well done mate that’s a nice haul of Mackies!

Well done lads that’s some horse beach Barra. Tony I’d be using 30lb on a six to ten kg setup for live baiting if I was as for north as you mate. It may not be as fun for some of the smaller fish but I’d be dirty on myself for a long time if I new I was dropping metrey’s

Legendary fish there mate. It’s great to see all of your hard work and efforts pay off big time that’s a real trophy fish mate well done

Yeah man a full blown reef trip on ultimate one is on my bucket list which seems to get Longer sooner than it does shorter. Mite have to wait a couple of years though heading to Vanuatu next year with Damo to hopefully get my xos dogtooth of my list