Finally got out
We finally got a chance to get an offshore trip in Wednesday. We took a mate (Muggsy) who has not fished much and had never caught a Red Emperor or a Large Mouth Nannygai (Sadletail Snapper). You can imagine his delight when he got one on the first spot before the sun had even set! Derek got one here too and we also got three trout, a Spangeld Emperor and a sizeable Large Mouth to boot. The boys could have gone home then happy men.
Before the sun had set we had 7 trout in the esky including a 7 kilo Blue Spot that Muggsy nailed to make his day even better.
After dark the sharks and Red Bass gave us heaps with Muggsy landing eight 5 kilo Bass in a row. His next bait then took off with what we all thought was a big shark but he wanted to catch it and persisted destroying himself in the process. It was a good call with a massive GT brought boatside after a sustained battle. I say with a fair amount of confidence this fish was over 35 kilos.
The sharks chased us to another area where we got more large and small mouth nannys plus a cod and a nice little Mangrove Jack to finish off. Final tally was 37 fish which included 7 or 8 large mouth to 6 kilos to go with the two Reds, a bunch of Spangeld Emperor and Long nose. Muggsy has another excuse to come out as he missed out on poppins his Large Mouth cherry but he didn't seem to mind after the fish he caught. Was good to get out 
Faulkner Family
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sounds like a trip for your
sounds like a trip for your mate to remember. nice haul there with some tasty fish. nice gt as well , that would have put some hurt on
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
piston broke
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Just Amazing
what a trip
cheers Pete.
milsey
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Epic mate, well done
Epic mate, well done
DavidBaricevic
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Nice story well done fellas
Nice story well done fellas
grayzeee
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some great pics there bunny
some great pics there bunny and some awesome fish.
If I spent half as long fishing , as I do reading this bloody forum , I'd be twice the fisherman I am.
infectedmulie
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Awsome fishing. Jelous. But i
Awsome fishing. Jelous. But i would say that GT was 25KG not 35 :P
A bad days fishing beats a good days working
KEN_DOG
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Awesome
Stonker trout
uncle
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some beautiful reds
there well done
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
Bunny
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If I knew how to put more
If I knew how to put more pics up I would show some more of that GT. It was about 1.3 m or so. I've caught plenty of GTs in my time so pretty confident of it's size.
dkonig82
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Great fish! What area roughly
Great fish! What area roughly were these taken in?
When asked by a non-fisherman 'how many fishing rods do you really need?' the correct answer is either:
n+1 (where n is the number of fishing rods you currently own); or
n-1 (where n is the number of fishing rods which would cause your significant other to dump you.
Bunny
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Probably should have
Probably should have mentioned that in the report! It was around a place called Rudder reef north of Cairns FNQ.
bod
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mixed bag
what a great mixed bag of top quality fish. Well done.
fisher12
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well done mate
well done mate great mixed bag of top quality fish congrats