Out of dry dock
Well after an extended summer break, I finally got the chance to get the boat out of dry dock for the first time in 2009.
Plan was to get a few fish to start building up a little bit of stock in my empty tuckerbox to cater for the next extended break from the water (either a cyclone or the fact that the boat is due for a service and I've got to tow it to Karratha to get it done) and maybe see if the odd red cray was still around.
A 6.45am launch saw James and I head down towards Anchor Island. First stop was to get a couple of small queenies for strip baits for my favourite leadhead bottom bashing technique.
After 3 casts for two queenies, we continued heading towards a little lump I have near Anchor. Two miles from the lump I came across some coral and a small show on the sounder. Two quick drifts producing nothing but juvenile blue lined emperors so we continued heading out.
500 metres further on we came across another patch of corally ground with some good fish shows so we pulled up for a drift. My first leadhead down was snaffled in quick time and the first trout for 09 soon graced the icebox, second leadhead was down there for a couple of minutes and then a better trout crashed the icebox party. Back around for another drift saw James add his first trout to the box and the day was off to a flyer.
We continued out and finally arrived at the lump. First floater lasted about 30 seconds before the whole scaly was clean bitten off. James then picked up a rat mack of about 90cm which he released. Meanwhile on the bottom he was two jigs dropped for two blitzkriegs, luckily we make out own jigs so the losses were not to painful.
My floater then went off and I thought I had a nice little mack on for a couple of minutes before it grew steroids and screamed off into the distance, I actually thought I had been sharked but I soldiered on. Twenty minutes later a nice 50lb mack ghosted into view, after the obligatory run around the anchor rope. He was promptly processed and added to the box, albeit cut in half minus the head and tail.
James then added a nice cobia before we called it quits and went for a dive.
Murky water still evident from the TC Dominic made it hard work but we picked up out bag of 4 reds. Spent a bit of time looking for some greens but we gave up after 30 minutes, the murky water making it that bit to hard.
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Neander
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Monster Mac John and and a
Monster Mac John and and a great Trout.
Good to here the weather died down enough for you to get out.
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got to be happy with that
got to be happy with that John,some great pics as usual and some thumper trout
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are you sure you couldnt get
are you sure you couldnt get them any bigger
verry nice fish there got to be happy
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the trout are nice and fat
the trout are nice and fat at the moment mate im sure you noticed. Great effort!!! That first trout is a ripper, yummo..
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Those home made jigs work a treat mate.
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NOHA
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Cant wait to get back there
Some excellent fish once again John. Making me itchy for another quick visit.
I got 2 weeks at the end of the month. Might have to keep an eye on the weather. if the forcast is good you mind find me heading your way again.
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snorta of a trout and
snorta of a trout and mackie
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Phoar what a haul!
Phoar what a haul!
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day out
Hi John, must have been good to get back out after a long break,some craker fish there,it was going off at subi last night as well
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They are
Faatt Baassttards aren't they , nice fish mate and great pics
Just one more cast , honest !!!
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Donkeys
Donkey trout and spaniard there BJ! Great way to start the new year. Did you guys have any swell up that way? We had about 3.5 meters if not more, wasn't the most enjoyable day out in the tinny. No one even saw a billfish out there, water was still way too green and struggled to see any crays either, just 2 junior reds. :(
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Good start
Cheers guys, was certainly a good start to the year.
Had some swell up here but only about 1.5m on back of Anchor Island.
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great mack
Great Macko John....Good to see you had the sharp bits away from the legs and up on the ice box. It's always the big macks that go for the anchor rope. Would have looked better with me holding it. Those trout are not too shabby either. One thing is for sure the tucker box wont be empty for long.
Well done mate
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Lift
Hehe, not sure if you could have lifted it Rosco. James couldn't believe I tailed it and lifted it straight over the gunnel (did take both hands around the tail though).
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well done looks like a great
well done looks like a great day on the water
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Some great pics guy, and
Some great pics guy, and sounds like a good days fishing well done
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Stonka of a trout and a
Stonka of a trout and a great start for 2009. Great stuff BJ.
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