weekend cannonball over paralell 26
so myself and 2 mates did a quick shoot up to SB for a 3 day weekend. left Friday arvo, slept on the side of the road Saturday morning around 2am, and left the ramp at 8am the next day, with a pepper steak pie and emu exports for breakfast. weather turned it on for us, especially on the sunday, when we were able to dive/spear one of the outer reefs well known for its XOS mackies. unfortunately there were no BIG mackies for us this day, but a few smaller models more than made up for it. we also speared some absolute HORSE baldies at this spot, one of which is now my PB, and although it looks ok in the photo, clocked in at a smidge over 7kg, and I was lucky to be able to get him away from the 200 kegger grouper that kept eyeing him off!
as always, photos say a 1000 words, so enjoy!
Colt_Striker
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All looks like a great
All looks like a great trip,
except for choice of beer
sea-kem
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Great report and write up
Great report and write up Scotto, stonka Baldy for sure!
Love the West!
Da pirate
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Fark epic effort!!
top work for a weekender !! Gotta love
spearing baldies in reasonable shallow
water!! Happy days ! Cheers pirate
uncle
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Epic trip
By the look of it
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
Faulkner Family
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nice spread for a couple of
nice spread for a couple of days with the straight and bent hook. nice size bauldies for sure
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
big john
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Nice
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scotto
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Just on our lonesome,
there was a couple of other boats over there mate, although no one we knew.
Deleted
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red cans and red
red cans and red beards
solid trip lads
meglodon
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The breakfast of champions
After having a brekkie like that how could things not go to plan.
A great report and pics well done guys.
Stevo81
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Top stuff lads! Weather
Top stuff lads! Weather looks sweet!
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kirky79
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Sweet !!
Nice one scotto. Do you find the Baldies & Black spots in the same areas? Or are the Black spot a lot shallower? Never done any spearing, but it looks awesome.
scotto
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Same areas generally,
although you will get more tuskies in the shallower water, but the shallower you go, the more it's been hammered. The bigger baldies we got diving were from 15-20m.
Rob H
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Great trip Scotto!Shoulda
Great trip Scotto!
Shoulda stopped in and said hello, Im near 440 Roadhouse on the beach, plenty spare beds!
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t bone
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keen???
Im keen for a trip or 2 like this during the demersal ban.. WIll pick ya up on the way :)
Rob H
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could be the go!
could be the go!
Give a man a mask, and he'll show you his true face...
The older you get the more you realize that no one has a f++king clue what they're doing.
Everyone's just winging it.
Jackfrost80
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Nice work boys. Shame about
Nice work boys. Shame about the crappy water conditions
Officially off the Pies bandwagon
Cheeto
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too good!
were planning a 4 day weekend mid September, i can only hope to get similar water!
no diving unfortunately, my dive buddies have moved east... :(
JohnF
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fukka
fukka
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.
t bone
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very nice mate
Give us a hoy next time ya heading up.. BE keen as hell to hook up my boat and tag along from Gero.
Where abouts did ya leave the ute and trailer whilst out and about?
scotto
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Acram base
hey mate, I left the car and trailer at the ramp, and rang the local cops and let them know about my ute being there for a few days. They gave me the mobile number for Wendy, who's part of the Australian Coast Radio Monitors, Acram (pronounced Akrem) Base. She is a deadset Aussie legend, and apart from being funny as all fuck over the radio, without us even asking, she actually checked on my car daily for us. She even offered to keep the car and trailer at her joint, and would drop us off/pick us up if we needed!!
t bone
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WOW
I was thinking it be a good idea to drop past the local cop shop and touch base with them prior to heading out. Good to see they are nice and helpful up that way.
Young Wendy sounds like its worth the drive just to meet this lass. lol. Might have to set it as mission to discover what she drinks to leave a few bottles with her as we depart to say thanks :)
Scotte
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Looks like a bloody good
Looks like a bloody good trip
Notorious
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Cracker haul!
Cracker haul!
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