Sunday Koks Report
The weather report was looking too good to miss so after a bit wangling I managed to arrange a swap for my Sea rescue radio watch and did the run over to Koks Isjand
After the quick run over in magic conditions to Koks, dropped anchor and sraight away up came a small honetcomb cod [sent back] then a just size pinky and that was it, all going quiet.
Upped anchor and headed out to the other side of the island out to the sixty metre area. Two drifts later and we had another 3 snapper in the box plus a reasonable rankin. As we motored back for another drift we were surrounded by a school of big sharks AND the cobia that run with them.
Out came the Abu 7000 with a chrome slice and having done no more that 5 cranks and it was on big time. I'd said to son Rob that I'll hook up and pass him the rod, soorry, change of plans and this is a big fish and its going to be " mine mine mine [sorry, could help myself] After a hard battle in came the biggest cobia I have caught as an amateur. Un hook the chrome slice, cast and hand it over to Robby for his first ever one shot at one. He did the standard 5-6 turns and then his arms turned to jelly as it took off like a shot from a gun.
It took him a good fifteen minutes to land his fish.
A quick look in the regs book that said the bag limit was two each so motor back and out goes the slice for another try, same number of cranks and its on again, in the mean time Robby had tie a 7/0 hook straight on to the end of his braid, big bait and in it goes1To cut i
t short we finished up four pinkies. a rankin cod and 3 good size cobia. We had to stop fishing becasue we would have had another one but the ice box was full even after bending the cobia in half to make them fit.
big john
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Quality
Love catching cobes. They go hard, even more so if the angler is winding backwards on an upside down abu 7000! LOL
Well done John.
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mullows
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Go the Cobes!!! They sure
Go the Cobes!!! They sure are fun and taste bloody good too. The sharks didn't have a go at them Carnarvonite when hooked??
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Mullows
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carnarvonite
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Nope.
Never lost a cobe to a shark and surprisingly never lost a fish to them today either.
Saw hundreds of schools of baitfish from 3 miles out right out passed the islands so would expect them to be well fed.
till
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I got a cobes up once that
I got a cobes up once that was codded! Even if the sharks give them a break, the cod don't.
mullows
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Had a large cobe get taxed
Had a large cobe get taxed last year, was suprised but does happen! Would put the photo up of the damage but don't know how to when slotting into someone elses thread. Will put in the images section...still managed to get a feed off it though.
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Mullows
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carnarvonite
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Practice
He's been watching his older brother for years do the same thing , when one hand gets tired , turn the reel over and wind it backwards with the other hand. Looks weird when they do it but "what ever blows your hair back" I've tried it many times but just can't seem to get it right.
Could have stopped there still catching, we were right in the middle of a school of sharks, big tigers, lemons thickskins and what looked like bronzies or duskies with heaps of big cobia .Got two on the old favourite chrome slice on the Abu 7000 and a couple on a chunk of bait on a single hook thrown over the side with a shimano charter special, not further that 3 metres from the boat. One of those magic sessons where everything comes together.
The worse part was that I looked at the bigger icebox while loading the boat and went for the smaller one because the latest reports and spring tides usually result in quiet fishing.
Faulkner Family
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what a day. i was going to
what a day. i was going to say you need a bigger ice box , its always the way tho when you take the big esky out you dont get a thing and when you have the small one you get all the fish that wont fit. would have been a great sight to see so many sharks around. any pics of the toothy critters ?. well done to all
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
carnarvonite
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Busy
We were too busy getting the latest craze going round---its called "arm stretching" was a real good work out and my back doesn't like me any more.
As we were coming down the leads on the way back in we over heard a radio call to the sea rescue base of a boat 7nm behind us that had run out of fuel. Called the base to let them know we were available to man the resue boat to go tow them in as most of our other vollie crews were not avaiable. So it was put the boat on the trailer and take the rescue boat back out and tow the broken down boat [out of fuel!!] in. After towing them right in to the start of the leads another boat turned up with a jerry can to get them started.
Wasn't too happy when I found out they knew that they were short of fuel some considerable time before and didn't even wave to us when we passed within 30 metres of them at the gap between the islands while two of the three on board were swiimming.
Faulkner Family
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should have left them
should have left them drifting for a while longer. a break down is one thing but to run out of fuel is carelessness . hope they get charged for the tow. if not i feel they should be. swimming out there with all them sharks, they must be nuts
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
carnarvonite
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Window
We came through the gap right on the tide change and it only gives you about a 20 minute window before the current starts to crank up.
We were some 7=8 miles from there when we got our fish, it was such a nice day we took the long way home and did some prospecting and sight seeing for Robby as he.s never been out there before.
Dale
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mmmm, cobes, one of my fave
mmmm, cobes, one of my fave fish to catch and eat.
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Dale
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