Pickles Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 (edited) Having our (usually) annual pilgrimage to SWR in 3 years, hopefully to get into some spotted and striped mackerel. Unfortunately the only spotty bit the line off (should have been using wire), but a great / short fight. Boated a feed though - Pearl perch, snapper, 2 Cobia (also a great fight) and heaps of Bonito. Live bait was really hard as the local goss is a trawler had “swept” the area the week before we arrived. I also went to the “dark side” and had (so far) 2 brilliant SCUBA dives off up and through, Fish Rock with great visibility of 10-12m and water temp of 26c. Lots of Trevally, Snapper, Kingies and counted 32 Grey Nurse sharks and a few whalers, turtles, dolphins, heaps of lobsters in the tunnel - too many to count. Needless to say, I didn’t talk about fishing to other divers as the two parties of zealots don’t talk to each other (not amiably anyway). Sorry only one pic. Hoping to have a report on Friday after an outing on ‘Jacks with Raider legend @dirvin21 Edited February 7, 2023 by Pickles Addition 17 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bessell1955 Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 Wow, looks like a very positive start to the holidays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelm Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 Spotties are great eating, as are Cobia, not too sure a Trawler would have any affect if bait fish, especially if it was a week ago! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kantong Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 great stuff mate, what a good feed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 Sounds like a good taime to be there Bob, plenty of action to be had. Pearlies, reddies and cobia for the plate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 Top photo & great report. Can't beat SWR. Did you leave the banana's at home ? Cheers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac Ct Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 Great stuff Pickles, sounds like a blast. Good to get up there after a few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larkin Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 Plenty of bonitos around at the moment! well done on the haul & hope your having a wonderful time away! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickles Posted February 8, 2023 Author Share Posted February 8, 2023 14 hours ago, bessell1955 said: Wow, looks like a very positive start to the holidays. Love SWR - always a great place to spend time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickles Posted February 8, 2023 Author Share Posted February 8, 2023 13 hours ago, noelm said: Spotties are great eating, as are Cobia, not too sure a Trawler would have any affect if bait fish, especially if it was a week ago! Quite right about eating qualities of cobes and spotties and great fighters too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big Neil Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 A great report from the MNC Bob. Hope that you and Dave have a successful fish for Jacks on Friday. Don't forget the bananas LOL A long time since I've fished at SWR but it used to be a regular July event to chase the Tailor as they migrated to Fraser Island for their annual breeding sojourn. From memory, we used to park near the caravan park and walk over the track where we could climb down the steep rock face to a place where there was a gutter created by a small island about 20m out. Great fishing using pillies on gang hooks. Cheers, bn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_55 Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 We used to fish of the rock near the surf club years ago unweighted ganged pillies for Tailor and try to tempt the Kings as they swam past it was fun wading out there when the tide was a touch high 😄 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickles Posted February 10, 2023 Author Share Posted February 10, 2023 On 2/9/2023 at 4:41 AM, big Neil said: A great report from the MNC Bob. Hope that you and Dave have a successful fish for Jacks on Friday. Don't forget the bananas LOL A long time since I've fished at SWR but it used to be a regular July event to chase the Tailor as they migrated to Fraser Island for their annual breeding sojourn. From memory, we used to park near the caravan park and walk over the track where we could climb down the steep rock face to a place where there was a gutter created by a small island about 20m out. Great fishing using pillies on gang hooks. Cheers, bn Cheers Neil, some of those winter tailor are stonkers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFishosGrill Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 nice haul mate well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenno64 Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 Sounds like a great trip coming up Bob. That dive must have been mouthwatering 🙏🏻 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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