Night in the sound
Unfortunately I am without a boat at the moment as I'm having my trailer regalvanised. I was stoked to get a phone call late last week from my good mate Paul (DeCrais) to invite me out on his boat on Saturday night to chase pinkies. It was a beautiful day out with extremely low winds and glassed off water, great conditions for boating but not normally that productive for Snapper. We headed out to one of Pauls favourite spots in the sound and set out the anchor. Things were a little quite except for some snook that must of been about 800mm long, good fun on the light gear. Things didn't improve over the next couple of hours so we decided to move to another spot of ours out between the islands. It was that calm that the anchor rope was slack and the boat position was constantly moving around with the small gusts of winds. It was impossible to keep the baits in position, so with dark looming we decided to move back into the sound again. Paul continued to struggle to keep the boat on the mark and repositioned the boat several more times. With no real luck and it being around 8.30 we were nearly ready to give up and Paul said we will move one more time (and I'm so glad he did) bang they started to fire with numerous undersize snapper coming over the side. All of a sudden my rod buckled over and was losing line like it wasn't going to stop, both Paul and I originally thought it must have been a Ray, but after some blistering runs we managed to turn whatever it was and slowly gaining line, it wasn't until we surfaced in the light of the boat at the transom that we realised that it was a horse snapper, with a quick net shot from Paul and a few snaps it was quickly on ice. We quickly increased the burly trail and got our baits back in the water. Not long after this Pauls rod buckled over landing another nice snapper. Several more smaller snapper came on board over the next hour or so until the boat started to swing around again, making it difficult to fish. We eventually called it a night at about 11.00pm, and as trying as it was it ended up being a great night. I would like to thank Paul for the invite and hopefully we get to head out again soon.
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trymyluck
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Well done , the top photo is
Well done , the top photo is a beauty !!!
fisho-ron
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nice mate, its great when the
nice mate, its great when the rod goes off!!
did you get your trailer beams replaced? or you go the new replacement bits we spoke off?
grayzeee
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Date Joined: 09/07/09
Nice work.Really pays off
Nice work.
Really pays off when you make the extra effort to get things right.
If I spent half as long fishing , as I do reading this bloody forum , I'd be twice the fisherman I am.
sea-kem
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Very nice work Dirt
Very nice work Dirt
Love the West!
Just1morecast
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Nice colours on the photos,
Nice colours on the photos, good stuff!
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beau
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Date Joined: 24/01/10
Hooter fish!
Hooter fish!
fisherking
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Awesome
Awesome
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tim-o
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U called it a night! Its
U called it a night! Its already called that.........lol nice sesh, proves posative to keep persisting, sooo jealous!
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milsey
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Well done mate, worth the
Well done mate, worth the effort thats for sure.
De-Crais
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Date Joined: 26/03/11
Pleasure Dean.
It was great to get out together again Dirt chasing the pinks, awsome fish mate great pic.
We'll get out again soon as bud.
OLD BANGA
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Date Joined: 02/04/10
WELL DONE.
Good effort youg fella, great to see good mates looking after each other when the boat is out of the water for awhile.
Old Banga!
OLD BANGA
Walfootrot
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Nice pinks! another couple of
Nice pinks! another couple of weeks and we should start to see a lot more!
More drum lines, kill the bloody sharks!
dkonig82
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great snapper that first one
great snapper that first one
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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.
Adam Gallash
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goood pink bits
Niiiiice pink bits.
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Ian Macca
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Very jealous awesome
Very jealous awesome Pinkie!!
I'm yet to land a sized one this year :(