Browns And Yellowfin, Something Else To

[knapers]

Howdy all, well here goes, went out to browns on Sunday after we missed the chance to go out last sunday and due to far to many beers being downed on sat night we left home at 8 and didnt get to browns until about 11- or 12 ish, we started off trowling and then moved onto cubing as we have a fuel hungry 200 and its a killer on the wallet. It started off really slow but then i ask the old man what time we are leaving and he says wind them in in about 2 mins, like clockwork we get a double hook up with 2 small fin, the 30 mins later he says (i kid you not) we better head of in about 3 mins, then BANG, dads was hooked on to something filthy big and had to tiagra with 50 pound line locked into full drag, and it was still peeeeeeeling the line of, we couldnt believe it, then the other tiagro goes off, and we had a double, dads lines snapped and we were all spewing as it was a really decent fin, better than the one we boated later, it went 22 kilo dont know the length. So we lost about 5 hookups, just too hungover me thinks.

15 mins later dads rod bends over something savage and line was screaming off, my mate said he saw the yellow fin and it was a monster but the dumb ass didnt notice the other fins and 10 mins into the fight a monster mako comes flying out of the water and freaks us all out, we had it about 2 metres away from the gaff, this was a monster mako, it was half the length of the boat so about 2.5 metres, i should go measure where it was to the boat it really killed me loosing that shark coz it would have been a prize it was a dead set monster. But because we were fishing for fin, we didnt have a trace on. Anywho, one last fish was caught when i was dropping a bait to the bottom i got hit by something, kept it coz a mate said it was edible, but wouldnt mind your help, thanks fellas.

Edited August 28, 2006 by crazedfisherdude

[TunOFun]

Well done knapers, good to see you scored a few

[knapers]

CFD< thanks heaps for doing that for me mate, really good of you. Yeah it has the nicest meet i have seen, cant wait to cook it tonight

[Guest Aron]

YUM

[knapers]

because we didnt check the line before we let loose, just a stupid mistake. and the mako just cut through the other time

[Sharky]

Nice looking feed there mate. Let me guess whats on the menu for the next week.

[knapers]

for the next month, lol, there is that much of it

[netic]

well done mate, some good fin's there and a shame about the mako.

[Flightmanager]

Great report knapers , who said you cant go fishing with a hangover !!

Ross

[James]

top effort there mate would have got the old boy on to a few more 2 min calls who knows how many you would have ended up with.

good stuff either way

[Guest Saqa]

The smile on your face says it all. Tops stuff mate

[Martin]

Action packed day and some great fin for the BBQ

Cheers

Martin

[Flattieman]

Great action and some nice fish landed - sounds like a great day, knapers.

Flattieman.

[knapers]

cant wait to empty the wallet again on sunday, hope to be more orginised this time and not miss some of the bigger ones we missed

[brettoes]

good size tuna's there mate, we were out there as well on sunday and i couldnt believe the number of boats out there.unluckyly for us we came back empty handed after being out there all morning from 6 til about 1,but we did the hours,it will be our turn soon.what time did you hook up as other reports are pointing towards late arvo hook ups with bugger all the rest of the day.

[knapers]

late arvo mate, as in 3-4, me repeating myself will get a bit boring soon but still soo cut we lost as many fish as we did.

Edited August 29, 2006 by knapers

[knapers]

it went down a real treat, beautiful

[mako1]

Great fish there Knapers.

Pitty you lost the bigger tuna and the mako.

Those ocean perch can be quite thick at browns,

sometimes pull them two or three at a time,but

they are a very welcome catch as they are top

eating.

Well done