Last Snapper Hunt - Cockburn Sound 27/09

Had the opportunity to get a fish in before the ban Friday night. I have recently done alright at a particular spot with my brother (Rocktron on here) and as a result of that my old man has been extremely jealous, especially given his gross incompetence and inability to get a snapper in the metro area for the past couple of decades.

 

So, after messing with my old man as to where our secret spot was we headed out to some new ground pretty close to where we wanted to be at sun down. We tried for a while for nothing despite fish on the sounder. We told him it was the spot, then that it wasn't the spot, then we told him to get his rain coat on as he was going to get wet getting to the spot, then to drop his line because we were on the spot etc etc, was good fun actually.

 

Eventually we got to the spot but didn't tell him it was the one. We have done well there on baits and my brother and I thought we would have a crack at the soft plastics. Can't remember if it was the first or second cast but rocktron (Tim) hooked up. Soon after, ie just after I had netted and as he was unhooking his 75cm pinkie, I hooked up on a plastic as well. Not long after that the old man was on to his first metro pinkie. He called it for a metre but is full of shit and it eventually came over the side at a slightly less than a metre 65cm. I had left my plastic on the bottom to net the old mans fish, and we agreed to move to try and find another spot given we had a fish each. When winding in I "accidentally" hooked into and landed another. So we decided to move and take a few photos of the four landed on the way to try another spot a bit closer in to shore.

 

So tried another spot and had plenty of fish on the sounder but no joy again. Tried for another hour or so but no luck. Eventually decided to head back to secret spot after constant pestering from old man and brother...

 

Long story short, got another one on bait for the old man, one for the brother on plastic in the pitch black, and another for me (released) on bait again pulling in after agreeing that we were done. 

 

At the end of the day we ended up with seven between about 65 and 75. Rocktron claims to have caught the biggest two but I remember it differently. We got two on seven inch gulps, two on five inch z-mans, two on squid and one on a scalie. Pretty random. At this spot where we got them all we would have fished for less than half an hour. Unfortunately we have still only caught fish at the one spot but we will keep looking for new ground after the ban. So that takes this spot to a grand total of 11 fish from 3 visits, and every other spot to a grand total of zero...

 

Photo of Dad quickly grabbing the bigger fish which was caught by his son.

Great photo taken by the old man. Ironically he used to be a professional photographer

Dad showing how to balance in a small boat. Its important to keep your feet as close together as possible and preferably wedged into the side of the tinny so there is no opportunity to try and save yourself when you fall. Luckily the bait board saved him and more importantly that he didn't lose the fish

Shot of me, apologies for reflective pants

The final haul. Half the fish are already eaten and the remainder are safely in the freezer to be consumed over the coming weeks/months.

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anypuddle's picture

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wow

Mon, 2013-09-30 10:06

Nice read, well done fellas...

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Good report well done fellows

Mon, 2013-09-30 12:01

Good report well done fellows

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Sounds like good fishing,

Mon, 2013-09-30 14:50

Sounds like good fishing, nice one mate. I hope you all had RBFLs though, the boat-limit for snapper is 2x number of licence holders. Once again, nice report and well done.

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Mate if you look at the pics

Mon, 2013-09-30 15:33

Mate if you look at the pics there is 3 people. Why is it that people get fixated on how many people to fish shown. Time and time again people keep pointing this out like if they are

Jealous or something. We are all fishos and we all know the fisheries website. This is why people are reluctant to post pics because people make shit comments like do you know the

limits, there's blood on the fish etc. Just make a positive comment or not at all.

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+1 Why does it even need to

Mon, 2013-09-30 15:40

+1
Why does it even need to be brought up

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 Thanks for pointing that

Mon, 2013-09-30 15:12

 Thanks for pointing that out. We know the rules and all have licenses and skippers tickets as well for that matter. Was a bit of debate on whether or not there was a boat limit for snapper, but I was sure the only boat limit was on dhufish. It came up in a thread on here a couple of weeks back.

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P.s.

Mon, 2013-09-30 19:06

 ...I also mentioned that I had released one. We are pretty aware of what you can and cannot take

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Nice report, cracked me up :)

Mon, 2013-09-30 17:32

Nice report, cracked me up :)

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no boat limit for snapper.

Mon, 2013-09-30 17:41

no boat limit for snapper. just licence holder. nice haul well done. your old boy looks stoked.

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Well done guys .. great

Mon, 2013-09-30 17:56

Well done guys .. great family effort

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best session

Tue, 2013-10-01 07:36

this was the best session I have ever had! And it was great that the old man finally got to catch something. Would have been an even better night if the baitboard was located somewhere else and he fell overboard :) watching him trying to get back into the tinnie after a swim is one of the funniest things we have ever seen on this boat!

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Good work fellas and nice of

Wed, 2013-10-02 02:16

Good work fellas and nice of you to take the old man out for the trip bet he would have loved it...

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Great report

Fri, 2013-10-04 16:50

What a good little read that was, good fish, good company and something to remember for years to come.

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