Weekend Report
Got the chance to jump in as a fishing deckie with my brother and sister in law for the local club comp around the Mossman (FNQ) area last weekend.
The trip started well with Erica landing a horse Saddletail Snapper just on dusk on the drift before Mick nailed one slightly bigger. Both fish would have been over 8.5 kilos whole. A few Spangled also came over the side before we headed in to chase our target fish, the mighty Fingermark.
In a little over 2 hours of fishing we smashed 8 Golden Snapper and 2 Gold Spot cod. The big Cod would have been over 12 kilos and most of the Fingermark were over 5 kilos, the biggest would have been over 6 whole.
It was a good feeling to leave them biting. I caught the last one which would have gone nearly 5 kilos and we took Erica home who was decidely sea sick!!
Took the missus for her first fish in 10 months up the Daintree the next night. It would have been good to get her some big Goldies but with the weather not playing the game the river had to do.
We nailed 6 legal Jacks off one spot amongst a host of smaller Grunter and bream. We kept 3.
Mick weighed in 4 fish, the nanny, a Spangled and 2 Fingermark for something like 18 kilos I think and Erica weighed in the same group plus 2 Jacks for just under 17 kilos from memory.
Some quality fish. Note how sick Erica is in the Golden Snapper photo, it was the best pic I could get!!
We got some footage which I'll post on youtube in a couple of days time. It's pretty cool.
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Faulkner Family
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sounds like it all went to
sounds like it all went to plan. some awesome fish there well done
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STEVE231
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Those saddletails are
Those saddletails are donkeys!! Well done guys, good report!!
PattyT
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Wow!! Looks like an awesome
Wow!! Looks like an awesome few hours on the water.
petervb
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well done, I'm green!
well done, I'm green!
carnarvonite
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Good report
Some real finger burners there, top fish.
DazSamFishing
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nice saddles & fingermark.
nice saddles & fingermark. Love the north QLD reports! Keem em' coming!
deepwater
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well done how did you go in
well done how did you go in the comp ??
jeff
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Far out
Some beautiful fish and pics Bunny!
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Brynner
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Awesome Saddletails
Well done on those thumpers!!!! The golden snapper are exceptional also.
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Bunny
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Thanks guys. Didn't add it
Thanks guys. Didn't add it all up but the rest of the fish weighed in would have been well below 20 kilos so Mick and Erica smashed em!! About three Trevally and a Shark Mackerel were part of the other catches. I'm not part of the club so did not weigh my fish in.
Rodrat
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Awesome
Huge saddletails!!! Well done.
FISH FOR THE FUTURE
Bunny
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Thanks Rodrat, not as huge
Thanks Rodrat, not as huge as those things bouncing in your avatar. now there's a catch and a half........
Bunny
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The youtube clip is up in
The youtube clip is up in the videos section if anyone wants to check it out