MyFish 26-1-10 (Great way to spend a holiday)

This week I decided to take the time out from fixing people to recharge the batteries for the up and coming 2010 year which, by going by the previous, will be as busy as ever.

Just by luck(no not really, I timed it that way), a good mate of mine Jordan Bennie had a few days off also meaning I had a reliable ally to get out while the weather was good. Jordan is relatively new to the breaming game but with every outing is growing in confidence and knowledge of the finer details of fishing like tackle choice and knot tying which for a rugby frontrower, poses some challenges!! This has never slowed JB who has more than often shown me a thing or two.

Going by my last post, we thought it would be a great idea to return back to Redcliffe with the presence of bream, estuary cod and snapper in the area to see if we could at least get some table snapper for tonight's dinner.

We started down the bottom end of the peninsula this time to see how the area was fairing due to the restricted green zoning placed on the area last year. We started to fish shallow close to the recently refurbished Woody Point jetty working our way to the deep as the tide began to ebb. We both started the day throwing my go-to lure the Jackall Chubby Deep with JB using the Brown Suji shrimp colour and myself throwing the clear shrimp colour. Keeping the lure close to the bottom, it took JB only three casts to be on the board with a nice personal best 29.5cm fork bream. As JB doesn't get much fishing time during the year, to see him catch a good fish is priceless. Soon after that he was on again this time a smaller bream followed by a flathead who taught JB a lesson by spiking his soft 'office worker' hands!! Haha.


After nabbing a few more small bream, we decided to go out deeper to 7-9ft of water to see if we could find fish feeding back off the shore during the receding tide. JB stayed with the Deep Chubby option, where I decided to try a new tactic in the hope to nail a good snapper. I changed to a Jackall Squirrel 61 which is a longer suspending hardbody lure diving 4-5ft which would be ideal when chasing bigger predators. It didn't take too long till the squirrel got smashed while pausing on my slow rolling retrieve and after a great fight I pulled a nice 37cm fork snapper much to our delight. After another half a dozen casts, I was on again and this fish was angry!! After some big runs and heavy head shakes, my money was on a big estuary cod, but as it got closer to the boat our dinner was just about to get better!! And there it was a cracker 39cm fork snapper, being much more fatter than the last, had inhale my lure and there was no way of losing this bad boy.

After this we took advantage of the glassy conditions to venture to the top of the peninsula up to Castlereagh Reef. Joining some locals, we threw shallow running hardbodies over the top of the bommies using a Zipbaits Khamsin SR and Atomic Crank 38.Using these lures over the top of the bommies gives you great scope as one is floating and the other is suspending letting you fish different columns of water.
This only proved to catch us some small bream until we approached the outcrop at Scarborough Reef where we encountered some pesty cod. JB pulled a nice 35cm cod cranking over a bommie to find another bigger cod following it up to the boat. DAMN COD!!!

We then moved south hitting the shoreline trying to see if any bream were still feeding in the shallows. Jordan had changed his lure back to a deep diving chubby in clear shrimp as the water clarity had dropped due to the wind direction. This bought instant success as JB's lure got nailed with this fish showing great fight. With JB fighting hard, I backed the boat out to deeper water to give him a chance of not being busted off. This ended up being the bream of the day at 32cm fork length and Jordan's new personal best and if you want to see the definition of happiness look at his picture!!! He was over the moon.

We then moved further south to some reef which was to be our last port of call as the wind was picking up. Now the next 30 minutes proved to be an expensive fishing exercise. After catching two bream and two little cod within a handful of casts
we proceeded to get busted off several times loosing lures to big fish. I swear JB was so annoyed, i thought he was going to swim home in disgust as he lost a certain big bream. Well that's fishing.

All in all a cracker day had by the two of us. I love nothing more than putting people onto fish as all they normally hear is my stories and see my pics. Fishing with Jordan is always a pleasure as the day goes so fast with the constant sledging and 'man-banter' that goes on. As you can see by my blogs, I have no real secrets when I fish as I don't mind sharing. Being secretive about techniques, lure choices and locations (what irks me the most is people who black out their photos!!) is really a personal thing but I believe what goes around comes around so sharing will ultimately be rewarded and at the end of the day IT'S ONLY FISHING!!

Enjoy the summer and happy snappering,

Grayson

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