the fishing just gets better here in FNQ : NQ Bluewater

redcan

Hi matt, and everyone in the NT enjoying another build UP,

Well I have nearly been back home in Cairns for 10 months now and the fishing just keeps getting better and better!

We had a good run on the Coral trout and the run had finished 50mins after it started, 7 x 50 cm plus trout and one very stuffed TLD15 (had to pull the last trout up by hand on braid, ouch).

Had a snorkel and a swim and ventured into deeper water for a footballer trout and 2 more large trout.

Caught my first Maori wrasse, did not weigh her, but easliy 25kg plus. Released.

Wow A screaming penn 850 with drag fully wound down unreal! I thought it was was a large spaniard the way it just kept peeling line and running.

The rod and real, belong to my wife $99 ugly stick and a $99 special 850 from amart!. I was impressed.

anyway life is still good over here - even in the police state.

We fish every fortnight on the reefs off Cairns (weather and work permitting), and have been inspected by ;

State fisheries
GBRMPA

only once each this year so far.

Caught my first green Job fish last week on the outer reef and it was beautiful eating, not to mention fighting.

Matt Flynn · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:25 pm Post subject:

Great to have a report from FNQ - those coral trout sure do look different from our bar-cheeked trout.

Impressive maori wrasse too.

Scenery looks good as well. Once the chemical plants etc start arriving in Darwin I might have to move there :mrgreen:

shelloz · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:58 pm Post subject:

Wow, check out the lips on the maori wrasse.

What are they like on the dinner plate? :chef2:

Shelloz

Timmo · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:10 pm Post subject:

hhhhhmmmmmmmmmm yummy man those trouts look nice mate :chef2:

great fish :drinking1:

redcan · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:13 pm Post subject:

the Maori Wrasse is widely acknowledged as one of the best eating fish in the tropic seas. A delicacy.

Unfortunately we can't eat them here in Qld. no take species

According to some people who dive they are around in huge numbers now.

The green jobfish was great eating however

meter_seeker · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:22 am Post subject:

redcan wrote:

the Maori Wrasse is widely acknowledged as one of the best eating fish in the tropic seas. A delicacy.Unfortunately we can't eat them here in Qld. no take species

Same case with the barramundi cod i hear to, and same again divers are seeing bigger numbers. I miss working up and down that coast, in and out of the reefs getting the chance to drop a line in remote places. Put the barge door down and go for a snorkel, apart from the list of regulations you guys are surrounded by some awesome landscape.

Great pictures by the way redcan, those fish are beauts :mrgreen:

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