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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 4 2014, 10:56 AM (167 Views) | |
| Wookiee | Jun 4 2014, 10:56 AM Post #1 |
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Spence was kind enough to invite me away last weekend for a trip north. We headed off Friday midday-ish and met up with a couple of other boats and we had a nice convoy up to the house. See the end for the TLDR... we got 3 days of fishing in but unfortunately the fish did not want to play with us. They were visible on the sounder, sometimes in good numbers and some thick blobs, but they weren’t furious. On Saturday we headed out in a medium swell with a wind forecast to drop off within an hour or so of us hitting the grounds. on the way out the swell got a bit dicey and we had a nice bath as one came over the glass. We both got soaked and Spence got to test out his bilge pump. We tried a couple of drifts but gave up with the stiff breeze, fast drift and a breaker over the back end of the boat giving us wet feet. More bilge action. We decided to wait out the swell until the breeze dropped but unfortunately the predicted drop off turned into a strengthening instead and the swell got very gnarly very quickly. at one point we were heading for a swim as a steep breaker came at us fast. Spence hit the gas and with a cry of 'that’s how it’s done in hazard county!' we got airborne with the nose going vertical and the prop the only thing in the water and keeping us from flipping totally. We were at the point of tipping backwards when the motor hit the back of the wave and straightened us out again. It was a split second thing but it seemed to take hours for us to land. We radioed to another boat who was ready to chuck it in too and we got a chaperone back in. It was an interesting trip in that’s for sure. Not the biggest seas I’ve been in, but this isn’t bass strait, and we weren’t in a brigantine. It’s the closest I’ve come to serious injury or worse in a boat and I think it might have been Spence’s nearest death experience too. With any luck I may be able to get enough movement in my sphincter to squeeze a fart out in the next month or so. Sunday we had the same washing machine swell on the way out and were thinking it was going to be round 2 of brown trouser time (deja poo?) but the wind dropped as it was supposed to and we had a great day on the water. The fish didn’t really want to play ball so we only got a few. We (mostly Spence :P) landed some baldies, a couple of small dhu, a pinky, a couple of sweep and some red throat. It seems like a lot but it was a few hours and a fair time between fish. Towards the end of the day I switched over to a jig for my first ever jigging attempt. It turned out to be a good idea with a 70cm pinky coming up on the first drift (good way to blood the new combo) and an undersized baldie straight after. Then there were a couple of hook ups on subsequent drifts but nothing landed. One we think was a monster dhu but I dropped it after about 15 seconds of heavy thumping load and screaming drag. I was a bit gutted I must admit. We had our bag limit of demersals and we headed in as the sun set and we watched it get swallowed by the sea as we put the boat on the trailer. We may have held hands but I can’t remember. Monday dawned a glorious day with hardly a puff of breeze and we punched out on a glassy sea with just the wide rolling 2m swell which we powered over into the misty rain. Highlight was the vivid double rainbow on the horizon ahead of us promising us a fantastic day. On our first drift I had the jig down before the boat had stopped and I hooked up as soon as the jig hit the bottom. Up came a goatfish which was a first for me but after that it was pretty quiet. I stuck with the jig for a couple of hours but the sounder was busy and the fish werent interested so i went back to bait. We ended up with our bag, and spence pulled up a monster baldie, but that big dhu was still to elude us. We headed in on still glassy seas at about lunch time so we could clean up for the drive back to Perth. The other boats had a similar story for the weekend. They are pretty tight lipped so I wont discuss much of what they caught but no one pulled in a big dhu and none of us found the schools of fish we were looking for. Biggest fish for the weekend was a 16kg dhu (last drift of the weekend) and the next down was about 10kg. All up it was both a bit disappointing results wise but also a great trip. A few boxes ticked, some good company and a near death experience. Sure beats working or lazing around on the couch and we came home with some fish for the freezer. TLDR: good 3 days fishing, missed out on a big dhu, ticked some boxes, almost died. fun times. |
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| Dave Bentley | Jun 4 2014, 11:36 AM Post #2 |
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Good report mate, the near miss sounds like it was fun. |
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| Lefty | Jun 4 2014, 11:51 AM Post #3 |
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Don't stress too much Wookiee, Spence won't let you get a decent Dhu till your 2nd trip. |
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| SnappaDan | Jun 4 2014, 12:51 PM Post #4 |
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Now that's living, way better than sitting home on the couch. Glad to see you made it through the big wave alright. |
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| Goodie | Jun 4 2014, 01:08 PM Post #5 |
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I love your reports wook!! Sounds like an interesting trip. Pitty the fish didnt play ball, but great that you got fish on jig ! You and spence should come down for a reddie bash some day |
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| K1W1 | Jun 4 2014, 01:43 PM Post #6 |
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A great read as always Wookiee. |
| They say "the early bird gets the worm"... Not a problem, worms all yours birdy. I'll get up around noon and fish a dry fly - Hank Patterson | |
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| ChilliBeer | Jun 4 2014, 02:36 PM Post #7 |
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Good report and fun times by the sounds of it, Yeehaa! Hazard County!!! |
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| Spence | Jun 4 2014, 02:58 PM Post #8 |
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I don't think I'll ever forget that trip. I'm still s$&tin' silly string. It was a surreal moment, one I'd thought I'd never experience. It was unlucky we couldn't boat any big fish. But I'm sure there were enough baldy fillets to last you a month. Along with a few dhu. It was fun times. Bit disorganized this trip with fish shares. Not sure what the go was. Normally it's even split. Not sure ill head out again until coral bay. Need to save some pennies. |
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| Wookiee | Jun 4 2014, 03:47 PM Post #9 |
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youre right spence i looked at the freezer as i walked past when i got home and thought that for a trip where the 'big boy' wasnt landed we still bagged out each day and came home with a hell of a lot of top quality fish. Thanks again mate. great adventure. |
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| James cohen | Jun 4 2014, 04:37 PM Post #10 |
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good stuff guys, nice to come home with a freezer of fish and some good stories. |
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| Spence | Jun 4 2014, 05:37 PM Post #11 |
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Here's a pic of one of the other boys new $115k cruiser craft bogged on beach. Dream ride! Was cringe worthy watching him snatch this beauty out.... |
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| Fish | Jun 4 2014, 06:06 PM Post #12 |
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Well done! Did you see the ground in close! It is insane |
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| Moohan | Jun 5 2014, 07:16 PM Post #13 |
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Classic report. |
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