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This 82cm red emperor was a great reward for Cameron’s hard work.
Brett showing off the quality of snapper taken for the trip.
Scott landed this lovely maori cod.
bow Escape Charters, to leave Bullock Head boat ramp aboard an 8m Cougar Catamaran with twin 250hp en- gines.
flattened a little around lunchtime.
mark, with a few 60- 70cm models thrown in.
I had fished with two local charters for years and didn’t know of Rainbow Escape Char- ters, skippered by Dave.
We travelled north to- wards the SS Maheno shipwreck about 30km off the coast and fished our way back towards the bar.
We caught several other reef species and while others used baits, I gave soft plastics a go and landed most of my snapper that way.
We opted for the ex- tended charter, which was a 13-hour session, and left the ramp at 4am.
The Cougar cat han- dled the chop in the 200km we travelled.
Berkley Gulp soft plastics in Nuclear Chicken colour proved to be the best option on the day.
The weather that morning wasn’t the best and the bar was a little lumpy but conditions
We fished in 45-55m and picked up a heap of slimy mackerel and yellowtail on the way, which we used for our bait as well as dead pil- chard and squid.
Tailor were in abun- dance and Bush ’n Beach editor Ben Col- lins seemed to be the tailor expert, with most of his drops yielding two at a time.
The crew with a great mix of species.
Fraser Coast foray to Ofind tasty reef fish
N August 16 we booked a char- ter with Rain-
Moreton Bay
by BRIAN WEBB
We didn’t know what to expect from this new charter, but the skipper knew the territory well.
Our next stop was Dave’s red emperor ground and before long we had two lovely mod- els in the boat, both measuring 82cm and weighing around 10kg, caught by Cameron and Brett.
Cameron, Brett and Scott with the best red emperor caught on the day.
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Most of the snapper were around the 50cm
We then
moved
There were eight on- board, with most bring- ing their own gear.
Our first stop was at the skipper’s snapper ground and – with it being the season reo- pening date August 15 – we went close to bagging out on snapper in the first 90 minutes of dropping bait to the depths.
The rest of us man- aged a few smaller reds, with only one being le- gal, before they went off the bite.
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