Morgs84 Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 Gday Raiders. Went up coffs for a fish with the girlfriends dad, keen to try out my new daiwa tierra soft plastics rod an reel. had a bottom bash first and came across a patch of trag and bagged out on them pretty quick. when they are on the bite theyll eat pretty much anything you put infront of them. but as soon as you drop one its game over . and the school will scatter we were fishing about 70metres and thought id chuck the soft plastics out for a little play. 20pnd braid and 20pnd leader. I put on a 7 inch gulp nuke chicken and 3rd cast i felt the line go heavy, then zzzzzzzzzzz . 5 or 6 huge runs later up comes one ugly coffs snapper. we then headed out to about 100 metres of water after a bar cod. i had some arrow squid i caught last week in the hacking frozen so i took them up and put them on whole. first drop a big hit but i couldnt put a pin in it , i let some more line out and he came back for a second go. it had a few good runs but was mainly a heavy lump of a fish to bring up out of 100 metres , the bar cod went 5 kgs and the snapper just over 6. The fishing up there is unreal and a nice place to go for a weekend. alot of the roadworks on the drive up are finished and its about 6 hrs from sydney now if you get a good run. just watch out for the police hiding in the bushes!! reccommend getting up there if you can and getting amongst it !! Morgs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickb Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 G/day Morgs, Your dead right about a nice part of the world,I fish about 60 k's south. You really need a mate that can fish,when your into trag,once you drop a couple,they are certainly gone, the only way to keep them there is make sure one always has bait on bottom,don't both come up together if you are dropping any. Anyway nice catch, that snapper had a head like he came from whyalla. Well done,I know you will certainly be back. Cheers Rick. P.S. If poddy Trapper sees this thread,he will be up next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jewhunter Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 It sure is a beaut part of the world. That's not an ugly snapper!! I reckon it's very good looking! Great fish mate! Gotta love a big gnarly head like that. Well done on the cod & the trag as well. Top report. Cheers, Grant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan.widz Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 look at all those trag, top bag mate and that is a top snapper, what a way to break in the new rod and reel. well done!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marlin01 Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 Top catch of fish, nice trag, coupla smaller reds, flatties, jackets and what are the other red fish? Top spot certainly a bit better than Newcastle or Sydney Keep up the reports! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil D Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 Thats a Gourges looking snapper, sorry cant say much bout you Top catch mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgs84 Posted September 20, 2010 Author Share Posted September 20, 2010 Thats a Gourges looking snapper, sorry cant say much bout you Top catch mate Ha ha i've heard that before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgs84 Posted September 20, 2010 Author Share Posted September 20, 2010 Top catch of fish, nice trag, coupla smaller reds, flatties, jackets and what are the other red fish? Top spot certainly a bit better than Newcastle or Sydney Keep up the reports! mate the smaller red ones are pig fish. good eating im told morgs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day's Fishin Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 Geeze Morgs did you have to build a special cleaning table to accommodate the catch? One mean looking snapper:thumbup: . Regards Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FISHARK Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 Well done Morgs looks as if you had a good trip mate it must have been the hacking squid mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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