Breaking the drought
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Breaking the drought
After a long couple of months without catching a decent fish and many fruitless trips, I ventured down to larrakia rockwall today around 6:30am with my mate. Saw a good current line and a bit of bird activity, so chucked on a metal slice and had a few casts for nothing. Decided to try something different, and put on a decent sized popper. Second cast, a queenie around 60cm came up and struck it, but didn't hook. Spurred on, I sent my lure out again and did the same thing a further four times, before the next cast being hammered right at the rocks by a decent queenie. A short but intense fight around the boulders ensued, however I was able to control the fish soon enough. We landed him and brought him up for some photos and a measurement. He went 68 to the fork and 77 to the tip, by no means a huge fish but after months of no fish, I was stoked. After that, the sun came up fully and the current line was all but gone, so I switched to a chunk of mullet. The rest of the trip was spent using baits to try and tempt a nice reef fish, however the sharks were on the chew and we got smoked multiple times. Also saw a decent barra cruising next to the rocks a bit later, and got smoked by something that didn't feel like a shark and rubbed the braid on the rocks. Possibly a big Trev, as there were some fair sized golden trevally that showed up once or twice. All in all, not a bad morning.
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Re: Breaking the drought
Nice work!
Such a great sportfish, they fight like hell and are very accessible for LB fishos.
I saw some dead ones floating outside the harbour years ago, must have been caught in a shark net and discarded, they were HUGE.
Funnily enough, a well-known fisho was pictured with a huge skinny in the paper a few days later, I did wonder ...
Such a great sportfish, they fight like hell and are very accessible for LB fishos.
I saw some dead ones floating outside the harbour years ago, must have been caught in a shark net and discarded, they were HUGE.
Funnily enough, a well-known fisho was pictured with a huge skinny in the paper a few days later, I did wonder ...
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Re: Breaking the drought
Years ago I used to catch good coral trout and 1m queenies floating unweighted pilchard halves half way along the other rock wall in front of the boat ramp. One day I was getting busted off every bait. In retrospect, I believe they were probably a jewfish school.
Matt, wasn't it a world record fly capture?
Matt, wasn't it a world record fly capture?
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Re: Breaking the drought
Top Report Young Gun , Great spot there I've been smoked many a time ,, you just never know whats going to show up . I have caught a Jewie there once , wasn't big but it put up a hell of a fight .
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Re: Breaking the drought
Queenies are my favourite fish for this reason. Biggest one I've heard of being caught is at mandorah, my mate reckons someone got a 113 on a big popper.Matt Flynn wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2019 6:21 am Nice work!
Such a great sportfish, they fight like hell and are very accessible for LB fishos.
I saw some dead ones floating outside the harbour years ago, must have been caught in a shark net and discarded, they were HUGE.
Funnily enough, a well-known fisho was pictured with a huge skinny in the paper a few days later, I did wonder ...
I've heard of coral trout and jewies being caught off the wall, looking through old reports. Might give that a try next timeLats wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2019 7:09 am Years ago I used to catch good coral trout and 1m queenies floating unweighted pilchard halves half way along the other rock wall in front of the boat ramp. One day I was getting busted off every bait. In retrospect, I believe they were probably a jewfish school.
Matt, wasn't it a world record fly capture?
Cheers Jeff, yeah I had heard about the spot but didn't know how I could get on base. Then I found out that my mate who I had know for a year lived on the base, but had never fished the wall . Safe to say he now wants to go down all the time. We got smoked/snipped a few times yesterday, the first few I reckon were sharks, although the last one I think might have been a big Trev from the way it fought. Looking forward to going down more this school holidays and trying different baits/methods.
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Dunno, the big-fish photo I saw at the time was probably legit but the timing made me laugh given that I'd seen three or four of these floaters that week, all mammoth skinnies.Matt, wasn't it a world record fly capture?
Would have snapped a trophy pic myself but the floaters were a bit woofy
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Re: Breaking the drought
Went back down today, no fish but got smoked again a few times on mullet chunks, and saw a good size Trev and a barra later in the day that surfaced in the dirty water.
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