A cold night out

 Decided to head out of Two Rocks for an overnighter Sat. Was really hoping the weather man didnt get it to wrong as heading to the 70m area and if it is windy it stays rough out there.

The boat has just had a bit of engine work done so we headed up to Moore river for the trial run and to see if we could pick up a few wrasse for Dhu bait. Somebody looked like they were heading in to salvage that 42 foot Laguna while we were floundering around with both of us in the bilge fixing a slight oil leak. They didnt even wave when i popped my head up on hearing their boat, just drove on by..Lol

Well we must be shocking wrasse fishermen because we only caught 1. Picked up a nice pinkie as bycatch so all was not lost. The easterly was dropping a bit so headed out to a spot where we have caught nothing but Baldies. The Baldies must all have gone north for the winter as we struck out there but again got another Pinkie as concellation just on sunset.

The weather was perfect out there with just a light breeze blowing so the drifts were good although it was changing around a lot and it was bitterly bloody cold. We moved into the 40-50m range and did a bunch of drifts over some chunky ground that was holding fish but got nothing but frusterated with a couple of sharks and a stack of bolt cutter snipping off our hooks. 

Towards sunset we headed in to anchor up and burley up with some Shore Catch shred. I was floating a mulie down the burley trail when something hit and started a massive run. A big zigzag left and right, went deep and then straight for the surface where it did a big jump. It was out of the range of our lights, 50m or so away, so we only saw the big splash of water and heard the slap. The stradic was screaming and 30lb braid was not slowing this down so to save myself the pain of respooling i grabbed the spool and snapped the line at about the 100m mark. Another "one that got away" story to add to the list and speculation on what i was. Tuna, Spanyard? or just an active ray??

We finished off the morning with a ripper 75cm snapper, Blackass and a couple of just size Dhu's. Actually my first sucess on soft plastics getting both Dhufish so i was pretty stoked.

 

Overnighting on Just Wright.

 

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good bag

Mon, 2016-09-19 08:03

 geez 70 m long way at night

hate the good runs you dont see..

 

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I'd say you earnt

Mon, 2016-09-19 10:04

 Those fishies

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 Sounds like the Sharks that

Mon, 2016-09-19 11:07

 Sounds like the Sharks that we catch up north at night. Big run, then jump. Couldn't work it out until we put wire on and landed one if the mongrel things.

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good stuff mate, i find when

Mon, 2016-09-19 11:46

good stuff mate, i find when i hook into eagle rays when snapper fishing they zig zag then jump out the water.

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You got a Snapper whilst

Mon, 2016-09-19 13:00

You got a Snapper whilst trying for Wrasse? I need to change my tactics in that case.

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Reverse psycology

Mon, 2016-09-19 13:32

 When you dont want wrasse they are bloody everywhere. When you look for them the snapper come in..lol

We just had a couple lines out while double checking the engine. Not tiny hooks but not the normal snapper size with a chunk of salmon caught earlier in the year. should have been a wrasse magnet.

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 Sounds like a good

Mon, 2016-09-19 13:31

 Sounds like a good night.

Small sharks jump a lot so if there were headshakes and a blistering run chances are it was a small spinner or something similar

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Shark, Ray, ??

Mon, 2016-09-19 13:43

 I've had a bit more time to think about it now.

As i'm a gun fisherman, FIGJAM, and it's my story. I'm calling it for a 60kg spanish mackerel that was just lip hooked getting chased by a 20 foot great white.. Wait.. Let me have another beer.. 150kg black marlin and i almost landed it..

This story will be a legend by the time i have grandkids.

Just a pity it got away.

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Thanks for the good post

Mon, 2016-09-19 15:48

FIGJAM I had to put on the thinking cap to work that one out, never heard or read it before lucky the better half new what it meant.
I would like to get the by catch you get when going for wrasse.

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 solid work 

Mon, 2016-09-19 16:56

 solid work