Spotty, snaps and sweeties. 13Apr14

TR by Jaro

Participants: Josh, Jaro, Salty from MG and Weeksey (I think from Sunshine Beach)
Conditions: Sky overcast, no wind to speak of until late when it blew up to 15 knots, neglible current, no swell.

Josh and I arrived at MG at around 5.00am and were ready to go when Salty arrived. We were going to head for JS with Salty saying he would join us later. However, he did not turn up and there was no radio contact. What happened, Salty? Did you go elsewhere and if so can you add to this report how you went. Weeksey how did you go if you ended up going via Sunshine Beach?

There was only a ripple of a wave so the exit was even easier than on Friday and as on Friday we had our rods up and ready on the yaks before launching which made for a quick getway. Josh and I headed for JS and at about the same place where Josh had a strike and lost the fish on Friday, he had another strike and this time landed a very nice Spotty Mac of 85cm. Josh had a short sharp tussle of about 5
five or so minutes before landing it and as I was right there I took the following pic.

We continued on to JS where there were many stink boats all trying their luck either trolling or bottom fishing which Josh and I proceeded to do also.

The end result was Josh boated a 43cm snapper and a 41cm snapper plus a few other littlies and had a large bite off. I ended up with two sweetlip of 37 and 39cm plus also a few undersize sweeties and snapper.

I had run out of bait by 9.20am and so headed back to MG with Josh following soon after. The wind sprang up suddenly on the way back making it hard work. As there was no swell, entry was the easiest I have experienced.

Below is a pic of Josh with all his booty.

So all in all another great day's fishing at Noosa.

Jaro