Cracker Day at Brays Rock

Author: dunebuggy

Category: Caloundra

Published on Thursday, 01 September 2011 19:19

Written by Stuart Whitehouse

Once again myself and a companion launched from the Kings beach boat ramp at 1st light, only to find that the wind was stronger than predicted. It was supposed to be less than 10 knots all morning but it was more like 15. Certainly not enough to put us off fishing. Less than a metre of swell again but compared to the glassy conditions of my last trip a couple of days ago, today was downright sloppy at times and I was blessed with a wet butt all day.

I am convinced that most the bait we have seen on the sounders this week are in fact prawns, and once again the fish only seemed interested in all thinks shrimp like. Everything caught today was not only caught on a Z-Man 3" shrimp but they were all (including undersized throwbacks) caught on the very same Shrimp. To say they are durable would be an understatement I think. 

We fished an area south east of brays rock and although we tried fishing in 50 and 60 feet of water, all these fish came from a patch that varied from 45 to 47 feet. I often found solid patches of bait on the sounder but with no sign of predators. Whenever I found bait with fish showing on the bottom beneath it, I got fish. My companion today was Brian (aka; paddleparra) and it's not often I out fish him but today I did. Last time that happened was the day I got my big red. 

There were longtail tuna around again but we only managed to get into casting range twice and that was mostly because they came toward us. Try as we might, we just couldn't get near the darn things when we chased them as they were never on the surface for long and were usually to far away to bother chasing them. When we did spot them and chase them, they disappeared again before we got close. Anyway, I can't complain about not catching tuna with today's catch. 

..... and boy, wasn't the yak heavy when I dragged it up the ramp!

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