Hi all.
Another adventure Travis and myself went on the other day. It started with a mostly rough, wet and incredibly cold 100k trip up the coast at 4:30 on monday morning. We arrived at Island head just after sunrise and after thawing out in the sun and rigging up it was time to see why the place was so good for popping. After a quick motor around it was hard to decide where to start! So many prime spots! No wonder the GT's love it there.
Anyway It seemed they didn't want any part of what we had to offer that morning, and after a few hours and various spots the tide had slowed and we stopped for lunch. After that we dropped some baits over to get some fish for home and it wasn't long before we found fingermark and grunter in plague proportions, one fingermark went 72cm. A couple of grassy sweetlip and we had plenty for the freezer, we certainly could have filled the esky twice but there is no need to catch the limit.
Sunset was approaching so it was out to the clara group to find some monsters of the deep, and once again so many prime gt spots and no action, not even a follow!
The next day was a little different tho, back at island head I launched a popper into a tight spot in the rocks and second bloop and I was on.... only briefly and I had a catastrophic knot failure
It was all queenie action after that, Travis with the first landed
It was time to blast home then before the southerly's get too wild, with a stop over at a secret spot on the way there was furious queenie action with 6 or so landed. A double hook up and one that went on a blinding run which nearly pulled me out of the boat!
The we finally found the monsters we were chasing, putting a nice curve in the new T Curve
Not long after Travis was on as well
Over all a really awesome trip, and maybe next time the island head gt's will turn it on for us!
Cheers
