Fishless Friday
Submitted by Paul N on Sun, 2007-09-02 10:37
Took the boat out for a run on Friday. Great expectations as the forecast was great and first time out to run in the new donk.
Launched at Ocean Reef at 6.30am to a 15 knot North Easterly ( what happened to the forecasted 2 knots?) Travelled 150klm for the day and only got one snapper and a sambo. Tried several spots and could not find a fish. Is it just me or are there no fish out there. The crew are getting a bit edgy and next trip I could be swimming home if I don't lift my game.
As I had to run in the new motor I didn't mind travelling a few k's but would have been nice to find some fish.
Would like to here from anyone else that went out on Friday - how did you go ?
Paul
Launched at Ocean Reef at 6.30am to a 15 knot North Easterly ( what happened to the forecasted 2 knots?) Travelled 150klm for the day and only got one snapper and a sambo. Tried several spots and could not find a fish. Is it just me or are there no fish out there. The crew are getting a bit edgy and next trip I could be swimming home if I don't lift my game.
As I had to run in the new motor I didn't mind travelling a few k's but would have been nice to find some fish.
Would like to here from anyone else that went out on Friday - how did you go ?
Paul
soupster51
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Same here
Same thing happened to me on Friday Paul. Visited some good spots that showed fish, had only about half a knot drift, minimal wind, swell about 1-2m - perfect. I only got two bites all day. Landed a nice little (51cm pinky), on the drift-bait so it was good fun. Had seven others fishing and between us we only boated 3 pinkies (1 U/S), 2 black-arse, 1 swallow-tail and 1 U/S dhuie. Not great for seven hours on the water. I guess thats why that call it fishing and not catching. Could have been worse, I could have been at work......
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Don't stress, we've had days
Don't stress, we've had days like that up here too! Sometimes they just don't wanna bite.
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Adam Gallash
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Quiet
Was quiet up here on Friday too. I took Thipthorp out inside the reef and couldn't even find a spanglie. Mind you, I did get busted up big time by the reef.
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Dean
Posts: 1943
Date Joined: 23/02/07
Well we went out Saturday 5M
Well we went out Saturday 5M swell and we fished for about 1 hour, late night the day before and we were both feeling sick. We had plenty of activity on the sounder but only managed an undersize dhuie.
Dean
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Date Joined: 23/02/07
We headed out on Sat