Night fish report.

We left my house with my 12ft dingy to head to leeuwin boat ramp, then motor out about 7nm to our snapper spot in about 22meters of water.

sounded out a lump and anchored up a bit so we drift over the spot with our lines, the current was strong pushing our baits opposite to the drift, very annoying

 

anyway pulled out the 5k stradic and put a floater rig on it with a whole squid as bait, this was the first rod in the water just as the sun had hit the water, turned around to make my other rod with a patternoster on it, just looped the sinker on when all of sudden the stradic starts screeming off, couple really good runs later and up pops my PB snapper of 92cm, stoked! havent even got the berly in the water yet haha my mate isn't even in the water yet and i've already got a stonker pinky :P

thats when i called up my old man and bragged about the catch :P apparently he wasnt very happy hahaha, now he is annoyed and is going tonight

 

then it went quiet for a bit for about 30mins, then the bottom bashing rod went off and up comes a port jackson.. great.

couple minuites later the skippy start coming on the bite, for there size the skippy put up a really good fight, going to take my bream rod next time

over the night we ended up getting the 92cm pinky, 50cm kg, small pinkies, 2 dhuys(one was 15cm), hammer head, 2 gummy sharks, bronzie, a big ass cray!, heaps skippy, couple port jacksons, massive yellow tail bream?, think thats all i can remember lol.

 

ended up being a very good night and it's the 4th time we have been in this spot fishing at night for pinkies and cleaned up on dhuys/pinkies it is also the second time we have got a crayfish on the rod, big ones aswell.  going again tonight on dads boat, lets see how they go

 

this was my previous pb

 

my cray from last trip

 

 

my new pb from the tinny last night


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what a thumper mate! and nice

Thu, 2013-04-04 10:18

what a thumper mate! and nice work on the rest of you haul sounds like a great night

 

what time did you head out / come back in?

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How on earth are you catching

Thu, 2013-04-04 10:23

How on earth are you catching crayfish on a rod?

Good work sounds like non stop action out there.

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 They must like the squid lol

Thu, 2013-04-04 10:27

 They must like the squid lol and then they get caught on the line, happened twice now in 4 trtrips we left my house around 4 and go out the the spot just before sunset then came back around 9:30

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Great Snapper

Thu, 2013-04-04 10:35

Terrific pinkie Troy and always good to get a PB.

Pulled a jumbo cray off one of the wrecks in 120m a few years back but was berried and had to go back - bugger!

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Sounds like a ripper session,

Thu, 2013-04-04 10:44

Sounds like a ripper session, well done on the PB.

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Nice catch, hope the cray

Thu, 2013-04-04 10:50

Nice catch, hope the cray went back as it's got tar spot. great size pink

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Onya .. cleaned up , I'll

Thu, 2013-04-04 11:51

Onya .. cleaned up , I'll have to make the effort for a night fish sometime soon ..

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Awesome job..... nothing

Thu, 2013-04-04 11:58

Awesome job..... nothing better than when the fish are on the bite, cant wait to get a pinky that size.

great to see you dont have to go out long distances to snag one either....

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Bloody hell Troy, what a

Thu, 2013-04-04 12:19

Bloody hell Troy, what a pearler of a session. Ron will be in a frenzy to get out there and hit them as well ! Great job on the PB, what a stonker !

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Crays after dark

Thu, 2013-04-04 12:20

Isn't that agaisnt the rules??  Good chance otherwise

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 great pb for sure. sounds

Thu, 2013-04-04 12:36

 great pb for sure. sounds like a great night was had .well done

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 We didn't target the cray..

Thu, 2013-04-04 12:43

 We didn't target the cray.. And it went back to see another day 

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Thats the go, nice pink

Thu, 2013-04-04 13:24

Thats the go, nice pink

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 Thats a fair effort! I got

Thu, 2013-04-04 15:02

 Thats a fair effort! I got my first gummy shark last night as well :)

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nice pinkie

Thu, 2013-04-04 15:19

nothing better than kicking back having a beer listening to that reel start to scream

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