The Taxman strikes again at Quobba
Submitted by Tony on Thu, 2012-06-28 09:10
Since moving to Carnarvon six months ago I've been spinning up at Quobba quite a bit in an attempt to land a trophy fish of the rocks.
No trouble getting hook ups, landing a whole fish is a different story tho.....
Tuna, mackies and a monster queeny have been shreded by the taxmen, last saturday it was this Bludger Trevs turn.
Low tide combined with almost no swell and I couldn,t lift the trev to the safety of the lower ledge, went 500mm from nose to the
inside of the bite mark. Would have been well over a meter before the shark.
I'll try again next week.
Rick
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Date Joined: 22/12/06
Shame
Mate its a shame when you work hard, and then lose them to the Sharks.
Conditions look magic,it's an awesome place to fish.
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crasny1
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Date Joined: 16/10/08
Damn
Those blighters are shredding everything up and down the coast, and if they arent shredding your fish, they make short work of rigs designed for Nice whiteflesh demersals.
It might be fun whilst it last connected to a shark, but loosing 5 rigs last arvo/night to them it wears thin. Fortunately no fish taken, but only 14m off water, and skull dragging saw us with 5 Nice bluelined snaps, 1 descent Estuary Cod and a nicely coloured juvenile pattern 55cm Red Emperor. Also landed 4 sharks (released) but these where babies compared to the line crunchers.
So I feel for you, and think that Carnarvonite should be given back his shark licence for awhile at least.
2 for the Boss, and she uses a single paternoster rig with a loop (started 40lb, then 60, then 80) with either Owner, Gami or other pricy Chem sharpened Hook. I use a snell rig, so my 3 rigs lost is double hooks. KInots holding, but they just bloody bite through
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carnarvonite
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Asked
Was talking to some of the wetliners in unloading today and the very same subject came up. With snapper and mackie season in top swing they are getting ripped off after 1-2 drops forcing them to keep moving around.
One of the interesting things to come up is grey nurses just grabbing fish then letting them go, like they are playing a game once they've had enough to eat.
To see the amount of fish where they have just gripped it is a real pain in the butt for everyone involved, leaving big stripes down towards the tail cutting its value to nearly bugger all.
Faulkner Family
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makes it hard when you lose
makes it hard when you lose the fish after the work is done. those sharks are an opertunist feeded, if you didnt hook the fish they wouldnt feed.
get a few shark fishing licences up that way for a few years and that would make a diff. doubt the pollies would agree tho
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