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Graham Bell with a lovely snapper destined for the table.
Typically, plastics are deployed early, starting in close to the Cape and usually making a good account of themselves, bagging big snapper.
The trip out where you could get to the bottom with a 6-ball was very nice, but noth- ing could be tempted to take a bait, not even a sergeant baker, which in this case would have at least brought a smile.
Snapper and whiting Cdominate recent catches
of others managed to get out a couple of times over the past few months, so the follow- ing is a compilation of several of those trips, with one or two being COVID midweek sor- ties when a few non- retirees joined in.
OMMODORE Schombie and a collection
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Early on in the crisis, Rob had said COVID would be a plus for the fish, but how wrong he was because there have consistently been more boats at all ramps mid- week than there have been on weekends.
However, this wasn’t the case on both of these trips because it was a struggle, with the plastics only producing one barely legal squire and not much else.
The prawns being on the run for a good length of time probably didn’t help things either.
Moving out towards Shallow Tempest, there were good shows across the GPS marks, but again the efforts pro- duced nothing of note.
Both trips ended in the shallows, trying to get a feed and discuss- ing what they could have done differently and what to do next time.
Two trips off More- ton Island went ahead, with basically the same trip schedule of hitting close to Cape More- ton with plastics early before moving out to
Heading out further to Deep Tempest, the sounder again lit up with what looked to be good shows of pearl perch.
To rub salt into their wounds, social media was going off, with people catching excel- lent snapper from the mouth of the Brisbane River and off Redcliffe, where they had depart- ed from.
Shallow Tempest then on to Deep Tempest.
Rob even tried revers- ing up current, but the window was small be- fore the sinkers were again up in the water column.
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Not a great start, but a start nonetheless.
Other anglers fishing in the area were expe- riencing similar results.
Hopes were high but were quickly dashed by a ripping current in the area where even two 10-ball sinkers strug- gled to get a bait down the zone.
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Graham also took this goldspot cod while chasing
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