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Title: More Cairns hi-jinks 09/03/09
Post by: Stephen Polzin on March 09, 2009, 05:15:26 PM

Went for a run with Fraser today chasing trevs.  First stop on the way out and Fraser was straight into the sashimi with a little striped tuna to start with.  A few smallish Mack-tuna followed before Fraser's day took a turn for the worse.  Once at the spot he managed to find a few fish, it was just the catching that proved difficult.  First a few follows and missed hookups.  Well everyone has bad luck.  Next a couple of solid hookups followed by bustoffs.  Ouch.  Even more upsetting was the cause, apparent knot dodgyness.  Back to knot-tying school with you Fraser!

My side of the boat was much nicer.  Firstly I managed to subdue a solid critter on my home-made stick-bait (which made a mess of the paintwork unfortunately). 

Then changed to a Carpenter and got a couple more. 

Was a pretty slow day overall, with quite a few casts between fish.  The current was surprisingly hard to find (considering the big tides) which added to the difficulties.

Anyway, a few pics

Title: Re: More Cairns hi-jinks 09/03/09
Post by: Peter Morris on March 09, 2009, 05:30:14 PM

The homemade special does the job....NICE... 8)

Pete

Title: Re: More Cairns hi-jinks 09/03/09
Post by: Stephen Polzin on March 09, 2009, 05:42:17 PM

thanks Pete, yeah was very happy to get a fish so soon on the home-made job.  Gotta work on that finish though!

Title: Re: More Cairns hi-jinks 09/03/09
Post by: Jay Burgess on March 09, 2009, 07:17:06 PM

nice work Steve, looks like hamish didn't have a huge impact as he went past.

Title: Re: More Cairns hi-jinks 09/03/09
Post by: Kasey Leong on March 09, 2009, 07:56:16 PM

Steve,
You seem to have quite the steady supply of Gammas.  ;D

Title: Re: More Cairns hi-jinks 09/03/09
Post by: Peter Lowe on March 10, 2009, 02:31:07 PM

Again, nice work Steve,

Good to see the fruits of your labour.......

 8)

Title: Re: More Cairns hi-jinks 09/03/09
Post by: Nathan Cefai on March 10, 2009, 03:12:53 PM

Once agian nice work budd!!!
Great pictures..