carnarvon

left the jetty about 9am on the saturday in the tinny and headed north hugging the coast as there was a bit of a northerly chop out deeper.arrived at our destination approx 10.30am and started trolling with a redhead halco crazy deep.2 minutes in and we had our 1st hookup,a nice spaniard guesstimated around 10-12kg.trolled another 5 mins and another strike but hooks didnt set so decided to find the lump we had come to bounce over.after 10 or 15 minutes looking,then another 5 or 10 gettin the anchor to grip and drift us onto our lump we were finally in postion.1st drop and i hooked into something solid only to lose it after about 10 secs(bugger).next drop and my mate comes up tight only to bust off on his 100 year old 25lb mono.1st fish to come onboard was a small spangled so got me thinkin theres bigger ones down there.back down again and this time i hook another heavy fish that gives me lots of curry on the stradic 8000 loaded with 30lb.after a fight of 7 or 8 minutes i get some colour and its a nice mulloway(or kingy) as the local guys were calling them of around 15kg.great fight for 70ft of water(released) and back down again then my mate hooks something that has his kmart setup smokin and headin south at a rate of knots.after 15 mins of huffing and puffing and nearly being spooled 3 or 4 times up pops a nice spaniard of 15-18kgs.very fat fish thru the belly.by this stage the anchor had come free so we drifted along thru nothing ground until i get another solid hit and up comes another mulloway of around 10-12kg(released).several small spangled and bluel lined emperors later and up comes a nice little moses perch(i think)for the esky.after this we headed over to the other boat and tied of them for a beer and a yarn how they are going.not 5 mins after being there i get another big hit and up comes my 3rd mulla for the day(not bad considering i never caught 1 before).after about 1/2 hour catching and releasing heaps of little emperor we decide to have another quick troll before heading home.20 mins and 3 relaesed macs later we call it a day and head back to the ramp 17 miles away.glass conditions saw us back in no time and had the boat loaded and roadie in hand by 3.30.was a good day all in all and only kept the 2 mackies and the moses.didnt have camera on board so only got a kill pic back home.will post later if i can


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good report bibs,sounds like

Sat, 2008-06-07 15:02

good report bibs,sounds like you had a top day
cheers ray

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sounds like you had a great day bibs

Sat, 2008-06-07 17:51

great read  

 

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Excellent Bibs

Sat, 2008-06-07 20:09

What an excellent day. Is that the Stradic Fi you were using. How did you find it at handling the bigger fish.
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was the stradic 8000fh older

Sat, 2008-06-07 20:19

was the stradic 8000fh older model 2 or 3 years i think colin.handled the bigger fish no probs.wasnt what i used for trolling tho

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nice mate

Sat, 2008-06-07 21:03

Sounds like a good day.  Sorry about not being able to catch up with you properly while I was there, just one of those things. :((

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