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Sharky

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Hey Raiders

It has been a while since my last report. I havnt been fishing near enough and when I have been out other raiders posted a report. Anyway I got a call from my mate who was calling to gloat about how he was heading to Port Broughton SA to chase snapper, I said as a joke When are we going??? He said come along mate so I booked a flight we headed down monday morning. YOU LITTLE RIPPA!!!!

November is a closed season for snapper and Dec 1 it opened again. We checked into the PB carivan park on Monday and we were pumped for a big day on the water. The reports told us the the best spot to have a crack was 28 nm out were the water depth went from 20m to 11m. We sounded out a school and they were thick. I was fishing with my Battler Kingbolt paired up with an airity. I was worried I would get smoked but as we were fishing over gravel beds I thought with a little luck things would go to plan.

Steve said drop your lines and I sent down a 7 inch gulp and the I got a hit......... The rod loaded up and I was onto my first SA snapper. My first one was around 4kgs and was the start of a hot snapper Bight.

Frank got on and Steve got on we all caught quality fish. As the bag limit in SA is 2 snapper over 60cm per person we threw back about 4-5 fish each attempting to upgrade. The biggest for the the day was 6-7 kgs caught by yours truly :1prop: The snapper were hitting the plastics on the drop and plastics outfished bait 4-1.

The fish went of the bight so we called it a day and headed back to clean the fish and snap freeze them.

Day 2 was a repeat of day one and we had a great day fishing and I caught my PB snapper that went 92cm with and estimated weight of 8kg. I was Wrapped!!!

Day three and the boys truly shined we threw back soooo many snapper we bagged out in about 30 mins and worked on catching snapper between 38cm and 60cm to take home whole. We caught 2.... This was a bitter sweet thing as throwing back snapper that averaged 70-80cm was great fun but frustrating as we wanted to take home a decent feed to offset the cost of the trip.

Weather cut our trip short by 2 days and we decided to leave at 230 am on friday morning. With three of us we towed the boat 1530 km all the way back to Sydney with it raining the whole time. 19 hours we were back.

This trip was fantastic and we have already booked accomodation for next year. It was great fun experimenting new tactics and by the last day we had catching snapper on plastics wired. The best performing plastics were 7 inch gulp shads in Pilchard, White and Grey. Squigie pilchard flick baits in the 8 inch? size accounted for the 2 biggest fish of the trip. We used 1/2 ounce and 5/8 ounce nitro jigheads using 20 lb penx. The light gear was loads of fun and all we really used was upgraded bream gear for plastics and heavy gear for bait.

Anyway here's the pics enjoy.

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Well done on the great "small" fish, the charter blokes there dont get excited

unless a client pulls in a 14kg (30lb'er) plus, I've gone on charters and they tell

you the crew has'nt done well, and you got a bag limit of 7-10kg fish laying on the deck....

Port Broughton is one of my favourite places to fish.

I fished there last year before the Nov snapper ban, on the Illussion wreck

which is probably the No1 snapper spot in Australia. They are like catching yakkas

when they are schooled up, any bait in the water gets smashed, and the sounder looks like

you hit the bottom when the schools swim through

When they are on the migration run its hard to get a fish under 60cm

Closer to the Pt brougton channel you get a lot of ruggers (under 60cm)

Back in Adelaide for Christmas, so I'm going try and get up to my Uncles shack and get into them

Did you lose any fish to white pointers while you were there?

Jason

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