Quobba fishing report ( no photos yet)
Hey everyone as you might know went for a 2 and a bit week quobba trip. the swell and winds were all in favour for once with earsterlies pretty much around for the whole 2 weeks. but saddly the sharks decided to want to play abit more this year. hooking fish wasnt the problem up thier it was getting them away from the sharks quick enough, in speaking that we had in total 34 hook ups on balloons and spinning and get this 6 mackeral were landed 2 cobia and a 9 kg tailor. at one stage i thought the inital hook up was a shark because as my line started peeling i looked at my balloon and all i saw was brown and splashes. i my self got 2 mackeral biggest being 17kg and the other just under 13kg. plenty of other species were caught like spangies, afew pinkies for a change, trevelly, finger marks, spanish flags, bluebone, parrot fish and the odd baldie.
when we go up we tend to do things abit differently than other member that go up thier. other people like to sit there all day with a beer and a balloon out waiting for a hook up and their happy to do that but we tend to fish from about 5:30 6 till about 1ish and afterthat go back to camp get a feed and head off around the coast for the afternoon. when we do that i always pack my flickie and afew twisties and nuclear chickens to cast over loverly looking holes which probly are rarely fished. this year just doing that in the afternoons i caught some prettty amazing fish like tailor parrotfish pinkies cudas types of snappas trevelly and some hookups which i think need some heavier gear as i had to re-spool my flickie about 3 or 4 times.
overall was the best trip had so far if it wasnt for the sharks would have had alot more pictures to show but to be 100% honest this is the reason why they say catching fish i abonus because there isnt a much better spot to be than the quobba coast watching whales doing areals 20 meters of whistlers and dolfins rounding up bait balls is an expeirance you only get in special places. i will put some pictures up later tonight or tomorrow night depending if my house is still standing:)
comment would be good to know if you been up their recently and noticed the amount of sharks are actually more than normal
Sammy the Salmon
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Sounds like an awesome
Sounds like an awesome trip!
ps: Thats a damn big Tailor. What length?
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sea-kem
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Hey Zack that's awesome mate.
Hey Zack that's awesome mate. Sounds like it's going off up there at the moment.Looking forward to some pics.
Love the West!
Zack2379
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its really hard to imagine
its really hard to imagine but it was 87cm. at first it fort like a mackeral but then it just jave up we thought it was a cuda then when we saw it we that i was a small mackeral then when we got it on the rock everyone just stopped and looked at this fish in silence for about a minute just amazed we drove 12 hours north to catch a tailor ahaha naah but this thing was a solid chunck of muscle
Torzar
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Nice report bud, sounds like
Nice report bud, sounds like a good couple of weeks :) Can't wate to see some pictures !
Sean66
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Hey Zacksounds like a top
Hey Zack
sounds like a top trip. i used to go to quobba and fish off garths years ago. did the same thing, spinning off the rocks and feeding the grey assasins..lol..now days im getting too old to go up the cliff..the downward trip is ok..i think but going back up could be a problem. cant wait to see some pics.
I'm here for a good time, not a long time. Lets go fishing!
Rig
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Sharks
Yeah mate I was there at Easter and the sharks were real bad as we called into steep on the way up they were even worse there.
By the way I would drive 12 hours to catch a 9kg tailor that's gonna be hard to top, looking forward to the pics
Zack2379
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ahah cheers fellas and for
ahah cheers fellas and for sure the trip down to garths is easy but the trip up with 30kg of fish is the killer part ahaha and yeah it was the joke of the trip ahah my dad caught nothing to brag about besides that tailor and was just the way it was said that alll the money and time he put into the trip he got a tailor, but yeah that tailor boys honestly the first run it took would have thought i was a dampire salt road train it took about 100m of line in bout 20 seconds it was insane!
but yes ive found my cameras and uploading the photos to the computer now so by about 6 they should be up:)
jay91
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i was at quobba Feb for just
i was at quobba Feb for just over a week, heaps of norwesters, spnaish flag n a few decent tuna n quennies. But never had a problem with the sharks, still surprised that we didnt!
only problem was we couldnt get a balloon out far enough before one took it, other than that we never got sharked or anything
Iceman
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November last year
Had the same problem November last year with the sharks. But after that report looking forward to going again. Already planning!!!!
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shorething
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sounds like a great trip!!
sounds like a great trip!!
Zack2379
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yeaah theres always sharks
yeaah theres always sharks but for the old man and his mates who have been 25 years consitantly they think this year has to be the worst so far. and iceman me just writing this got me excited for next year its a buzz when your up thier. ahahaha shorething i went up thier when i was young about 5, i didnt fish for obvious reasons but the old boys got sweet fk all we were there for 2 weeks aswell. they didnt catch a fish till wednesday on the second week
vp86wa
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Quobba
Was up there from the 1st of June supposed to stay for the week but the sharks ending getting on my nerves.
Spent 3 days there with 15 good fish hooked and only 2 landed so we just gave up and came home
Still got mates there hopefully they're gonna do better
lbg15k
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sharks learn just like other
sharks learn just like other successful creatures.
They associate people (and boats) with food and while we keep on feeding them we will keep on encouraging more to hang around. This is not good for a great spot like Quobba. And I no longer fish Garths for the reason that folks will get there then lose fish after fish to sharks and continue to do that all morning without a thought. Few of us will kill 10 or 15 big macks, but there is a good numvber of us that are prepared to lose that to sharks - net result is the same as far as the mack population is concerned.
Most of us make it worse by just not thinking it through. Last year I was fishing one of my less-fished spots, and had a happy crowd of people come down to see what I was catching and tell me about all the spanglies they had caught at Caves the day before. They then proceeded to throw all the frames into wash and within 15 minutes I had two sharks patrolling at my feet and no chance of getting a fish out. So I moved again.
The way we behave on the rocks is what is bringing the sharks.
Zack2379
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vp probly would have walked
vp probly would have walked or drove passed you once or twice while you were up there:) but yeah lbg15k we figured that bro but all that we fish a different spot each day like high rock one day then garths the next then whistlers, if you fish around we had more fish landed but not a great deal i just think in general theres just alot more sharks up their at the moment.
Rig
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photos
gonna post any pics zack?
Kris
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Yeah I was thinking the same
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. I wanna see this tailor!!!