NIce day out
Had a couple of friends keen to go out for a fish so we picked Tuesday as the day to go, and luckly for us the weather gods gave us a break from the howling winds and heavy rain.
Basically I got everything ready as I had told the boys just turn up I will have it all sorted gear lunch everything just got to get in the boat. They turned up and we were off. Unfortunately I couldn't use my normal ramp because of the big winds it was covered in seaweed at least 3 ft plus thick so I opted for Geo Marina boat ramp. Took things pretty cruizey going out as there was a little bump going on, enough to knock you around if you wanted to go harder so I just sat back doing 15-20 knotts.
Pulled up just before the mark to get everything sorted baits rigged etc. Both the boys have fished before but don't think they have spent heaps of time out there but a quick few instructions and they were ready to go. I decided to just let them fish and I helped with whatever they needed to make it a good day for them. First drop resulted in a just under size pinkie went back in to swim another day. Couple of smalldrifts and went a lttle, quite so I opted to move to the next spot x. First drop for the big fella pictured and this was the result, a nice pinkie. They were all pretty excited as I forgot to mention that the call for that night was fish on the BBQ for us and some friends. So that Pinkie saved face and we now could fish with a little pressure off.
We kept fishing and I made every attempt to keep them on the fish but it was like everything just shut down. We did end up catching for the day, Pinkie as per photo, 1 small pinkie, 2 sampson fish, 1 under size Dhu fish, skippy and 1 very good bust of to an unstopable. The funny part of the day was when 1 of the boys caught the sampson fish as they come up at the same time on the same hook, cant say I've ever had that happen before.
As the conditions continued to get worse we called for home so although the boys didn't get as many as they hoped they still had a good time, and I'm sure soom memeries to go with it. They cooked the Pinkie that night and it was delicious.
Colin Hay
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Nice fish there Blackknightz
I hope you don't mind, but I resized your pic.
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Blackknightz
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Cheers Colin
When it came up I thought the boys won't like it sized this big but didn't know how to shrink it once in here. Thanks again
Colin Hay
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No problems
That snapper looks to be in great condition.
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soupster51
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Nice Pink
Good fish. Nice work on taking some lads out to get amongst them.
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Auslobster
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Great fish!
Fresh caught snapper on the BBQ can't be beat...one of the true blue Aussie meals IMO! Good stuff, thanks for the report!
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nice pinkie. what size were
nice pinkie. what size were the sambo's as they would go good on the barbie as well. good to see you got the boys onto a few fish.
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Blackknightz
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The sambo's
Were only small but would of been good eating size. Glad we didn't though as the snapper feed us all, so they would of got wasted. It's a great way to cook fish really minimal waste. We cooked it with the scales on and that really helps keep the good oils and moisture in. Favourite eating fish for down here yum yum.