First time out of two rocks
Hi all - went out of two rocks for the first time on sunday. Weather not as good as seabreeze forecasted, very sloppy NW blowing about 12-14kn with higher gusts and swell medium to high. Went out to an area recommended to us approx 17kms west of Moore river depths between 34 -37m. We drifted around quite quick fished around bottom kind of corrugated didnt really see much of interest and caught the usual sargeant baker, wrasse etc. Decided to head over to the craypot line drifted through the pots, lots of bites, squid and occy destroyed in a minute or two and got sargeant baker n wrasse as usual.. Brother picked up a bonito while he was winding up, it grabbed the hook that had the remnants of an occy tentacle hanging off of it. We kept doing drifts through the pots on about the 7th-8th drift something big and heavy grabbed my bait took off fast drag running im yelling "you beauty at last!" then dropped it - F@#K! after a few more drifts of nothing decided to come straight in to 30-33m mark. Brother drops line over - bang - double header dhueys, one went 60cm other 40cm put him back and that was it - nothing after that. Decided to go south down to Gemini wreck. On the way was surprised to see three separate whales along the way in the 26m line. Didnt think they were migrating at the moment. Got to gemini the drift was fast and as most probably know its not a abig area. Fish all over the wreck lots of bites but no keepers. A small shark about 1.5m long followed my bait up to the boat at one point so i dropped it back to him, was watching him he just swam around and nosed it but wasnt hungry. So all in all not a great day. Brother got a nice dhuey but a bit disappointed that we couldnt seem to locate any great looking ground apart from where the pots were. Back at the ramp fisheries were checking boats and just to rub salt in our wounds other fisho's had good bags of dhueys and baldies - bugger. Anyway it was our first time out of there next time we thought we might head straight out NW deep over direction bank - anybody got any other suggestions.
Cheers Dave
Paul G
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Date Joined: 12/12/07
Well its a start.Was a shit
Well its a start.Was a shit drift for sure Sunday .Get out to the deeper stuff and have a go. Should pay off.
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