Participants: Jimbo, Josh (this being his first outing as a Noosa Yakker), Jaro
Conditions: No wind early increasing to 8 knot westerly. Seas flat. Current negligible.
Sky clear to somewhat cloudy.
We all arrived around 5.00am at the MG car park and found the seas to be flat calm with a ripple shore break so the exit was the easiest ever, for me anyway.
Josh and I headed off first towards JS and about 1.5 km from Jew Shoal Josh had a good strike but the fish dislodged the hooks soon after. Then Jimbo reported that he had hooked and landed a Spaniard only for the Spaniard to suddenly thresh about, dislodging the hook and flapping back into the sea before Jimbo could seize it. He was not happy!
Josh out in Laguna Bay
We continued to Jew Shoal and after a bit of trolling settled for some bottom fishing with me going to my favourite spot. Over the next two hours I caught three sweetlip and one snapper. One was a big fat 50cm, another was 41cm and the snapper and remaining sweetlip were 39cm.
Jimbo finally caught one sweetlip also about 39cm. Josh ran out of bait and remained fishless. All fish were caught with prawns (tiger prawns for me and banana prawns for Jimbo).
We all pulled up stakes at around 9.30am and paddled back to shore where a little care was required as it was now low tide but we all judged it well and landed upright quite easily.
Beach pics:
Jaro and all five fish
Jaro's catch
Jimbo and his sweetie
One minor correction to Jaro's report ... my lost mackerel was a small spotty, rather than a spaniard. Still incredibly amateurish handling to loose it overboard after having landed it. I was however lucky not to finish up with a treble hook stuck into my thigh with a thrashing spotty trying to tear it out.
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