Harbour queenies

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Harbour queenies

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Did half day trip this morning as the stepdaughter has been humbugging me for a fish. Was on the water by about 7:30 and was met by flat water. The plan was to checked out near mandorah and then head to lee point to chase some pelagics. Pulled up to mandorah, electric in and started to pummel the water with poppers. Every fourth or fifth cast resulted in some interest from the local queenfish. Finally got a good hit and managed to stay connected. Ended up giving rod to stepdaughter as she had never caught a queenfish. After a few laps around the boat the fish was boat side and in the net. A quick measure and her first queenfish went 93cm to inside of fork. Ended up landing two fish around 93/94 cm to inside of fork and a lot of follow ups and dropped fish. Including some straightened trebles on some poppers. The bite started to slow by late morning. So decided to do quick run to lee point to see if any tuna were around. Short run over in flat seas and was met by nothing, found stuff all bait, no birds working and no bust ups. So made quick dash back to mandorah on way home and managed another 3 dropped fish in 20mins. Was great day and couldn’t wipe the smile off the stepdaughters face.

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Ripper day. Well done :clap: :cheers:
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Picked a perfect day , good size fish too :mrgreen:
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Yeah Jeff, was abit surprised myself considering Willy weather was saying .4m swells and 20km winds was flat as a tack the whole time
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Awesome harbour Queenie. Great pics..
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