MarlinMadness Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 (edited) Hi All, I thought I would share with you some pics of a recent trip I did to Cairns. This is only one of many days fishing but this day had something a little special that I have never come across before. We were fishing out from Mourilyan Harbour, over 100ks south of Cairns and the morning had produced some cod that were just centimetres from legal, but nothing of legal size or talk. We came across this small pinnacle which held a reasonable amount of bait around 11:30am. So over went the anchor and well the results speak for themselves. We caught around 10 Coral Trout, and everything was well above the legal size. We caught not 1 small Coral Trout. Hi Guys, Here are some other pics. The close up of the fish caught on a soft plastic was off Dunk Island. I am assuming it is some sort of Sweetlip. This below pic is of 2 of 4 big metre long barras that came out for my trevally I had from the Dunk Island Wharf. It was a knee shaking moment. Edited February 14, 2006 by Marlin-Madness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Wow nice eating fish those Coral Trout yummmm and thats a real nice green Jobfish as well .Sounds like a great trip and from the look on your face you enjoyed it immensely .Great pics as well ,what sort of camera are you using ??? Cheers Swordfisherman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarlinMadness Posted January 19, 2006 Author Share Posted January 19, 2006 Hi there, Thanks Guys. It was a awesome trip. I have heaps more photos still in the memory card. The camera I am using is a Kodak 633. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lbgking Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Mate just keep posting them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fishrunner Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Sounds like a good trip and a great few meals to boot , cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest madsmc Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Some top fish there MM, and how calm does the ocean look! Did the barra's actually have a crack at eating the sweetlip, or did they just have a close up look? In any case I can imagine how exciting it would have been. I'll bet the sweetlip was looking for a change of undies though Shane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarlinMadness Posted January 19, 2006 Author Share Posted January 19, 2006 Some top fish there MM, and how calm does the ocean look! Did the barra's actually have a crack at eating the sweetlip, or did they just have a close up look? In any case I can imagine how exciting it would have been. I'll bet the sweetlip was looking for a change of undies though Shane Hi Guys, Yes, the eating of fresh fish was awesome. I tell you what, that Green JobFish was up there with the eating quality. We ate is that night and big thick fillets. The day we picked was awesome. The next day after was like this too but we didnt manage to get out. Which was a bloody shame. With the barras, I hooked a Trevally, and was pulling it up and the week before I had been over at Dunk Island and had a massive Coral Trout chase my barracude right on top of the water. If ONLY I was quick enough to turn my camera to video mode it would of accounted for some great footage. So I decided to leave the trevally to swim around a bit and out of hte blue came 4 barras and a medium nice Coral Trout. Suprisingly the Trevally was smack back on the tip of the Barras nose, but no boofing mate. I am unsure why to be honest. If you have a look at the pic below, you will see a caramel brown shape. Well that is the big coral trout that came for the trevally also. Then this came after all of them and no more action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Sounds like a top fishing trip and those coral trout would have been fantastic eating. I would love to get up that way again for some feal fishing. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarlinMadness Posted January 20, 2006 Author Share Posted January 20, 2006 Sounds like a top fishing trip and those coral trout would have been fantastic eating. I would love to get up that way again for some feal fishing. Cheers Hi Martin, Well if you ever need any guidance or info, let me know mate, more than happy to help. I have found a new charter guide that only charges around $660.00 a day, up to 4 anglers, so around $165 each. His name is Bob Fraser but if you would like further details PM me please. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarlinMadness Posted January 21, 2006 Author Share Posted January 21, 2006 Hi Martin, Well if you ever need any guidance or info, let me know mate, more than happy to help. I have found a new charter guide that only charges around $660.00 a day, up to 4 anglers, so around $165 each. His name is Bob Fraser but if you would like further details PM me please. Cheers Here is a pic of another Coral Trout I missed out putting in the first post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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