Longreef 16/6/2012

[chewie]

Erroll and i fished Longreef yesterday morning before the weather turned.

We had a good day using only lures firstly targeting snapper on plastics before having a jig wider.

We managed to catch plenty of rat kings, a nice 52cm snapper, trevelly, pike (including a monster 51cm model that took a jig intended for a kingfish) and a few other surprises including a massive ray which took 20minutes to lift to the boat after it was hooked on snapper gear and a plastic.

Erroll managed a nice 76cm king on the jig then got reefed by a much bigger fish which left him a little depressed.

All in all it was a great day with fish consistently coming over the side all day. The water quality was pretty poor inclose but better a few kms out.

chewie

[rjc123]

Great session fellas You still did well to manage a few nice fish considering the weather we've been having! I can imagine the fight with the ray very well. I fought a rather large ray in Noosa on 2-4kg stick and 4lb braid. Took 50 minutes to get in!

[PowerFisher]

Well done on the good fish guys, there is good fish outside just needs the courage to head out in this weather.

[erroll]

Still haven't recovered from being bricked...... I'll get my revenge!!!!!

Great day though chewie.

Cheers

erroll

[johnopaparoulas]

if u dnt mind me asking how far offshore u got the kings?

[mattyg_16]

Nice

[chewie]

We had kings at most of the marks we tried. All within 5km of the coast.

[windredj]

sounds like you had a fun day out good to hear reports like this makes me wanna harden up and get out in this cold weather

[PRED-ATOR]

nice report mate some very nice fish there.

OMG THAT IS A MONSTER PIKE, i have never seen them that big lol.