[spottymac]

Fishmatics [Andrew] and l arrived at the boat ramp at 4.15 am and headed out to the reef in perfect conditions.
There were mack tuna chopping up bait every where,the bait was so small we couldn't match it with anything,we tried every thing small metal slugs,live yakkas, pilchards,SP,HB lures and l finally landed one on the old fathfull Gold Bommer.
l have been impressed with the Glup shad SP on a1/4 oz jig head in the water melon,have a look at the nice snapper l landed.

 

[WayneD]

Looks like a bit of fun , nice catch there spottymac.

 

[Squidder]

Great snapper on an SP Spottymac Go the GULPs! :wink:

 

[Duran]

well done stu 2 nice fish :shock:
good to see there are fish coming out, now i cant wait to get out there this weekend hope the weather is good :roll:

 

[andybear]

Wow!, ..... Thats what I call time well spent! :lol:

Fantastic, well done.......Please let it be me one day.... two good fish in a day

Cheers Andybear :lol:

 

[couta1]

nice catch stu,it looks like you are going to have to change your name to "snappermac" instead of spottymac on the forum.it sure beats working on a monday

 

[spooled1]

Onya Stu...

The mackies seem to be chomping small whitebait that are everywhere. Can't see your pics but glad you got on.

How was the swell out at Kingscliff?

 

[Rod L]

Geez you get into some good fish Stu.
Great stuff mate

 

[Fishing Man]

hey stu,

awesome catch there,
how often do you get snapper/squire out on kingscliff reef??

also what other species have you caught out there?

 

[Scott]

Onya Stu, some nice fish there and a great report.

Catch ya Scott

 

[Redro]

Great pair of fish, you have there Stu - well done. I wonder how the S African guy who bought my Swing and tackle is getting along - have not seen any posts from him lately (can't remember his name now). Your mention of the Gold Bomber got me thinking - as one was amongst all the tackle I sold with the kayak. Great lure. Have a good summer at Palm Reef - I envy you guys (I had my first taste of this winter's snow in Vienna, this weekend).

 

[PoddyMullet]

Always thumping fish ya put up Stu...bloody whoppers!! Ya work every trick in the book over by the sounds of it, short of dynamite stick. Nice stuff 8)

 

[RedPhoenix]

Unfortunately, due to the change in ownership of this web site and the lack of response by the owners to my requests to remove my email address from all administrative-level notifications and functionality, I have decided to remove my posts on AKFF. Thank you for the great times, the fantastic learning experiences and the many many fish. If you are desperate for the old content of this particular post, it is available below base64 encoded and bzip2 compressed.

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[spottymac]

Hi Redro,snow in Vienna,we will keep you posted with pics from sunny Qld to cheer you up, take up skiing that would be a lot af fun.

Hi Ben, Fishmatics, Couta and Dennis have all caught nice snapper about the same size, other species we have caught are Jew, l landed a 12 kg last year,Yellow fin tuna,Tailer,Shark,Bream,Trevally, We are having trouble landing the big King fish they go for the bottom and cut the line off on the reef,spanish and spotted mackerel and Wahoo can be caught on the reef at times.

Dan the swell had picked up by the time we headed back in [10 am] and with the run out tide at the bar it was looking a bit of a challenge Andrew made it look easy l messed it up a got rolled,[But two nice fish in the bag made up for it]

 

[Dodge]

Stu if you keep nailing quality reds you will become the Kingscliffe guru, and the tuna is no dwarf either, well done mate

 

[Jesse_Ape]

Great fish

The amount of times i have dived/speared kingscliff I have never seen a snapper How deep was he if you don't mind me asking?

And those kingfish are easyer to handle when the have a 7mm steel shaft through their head they don't cut the line so easy then.

Cheers

Jesse

 

[spottymac]

Hi Jesse
The water was to dirty for the divers last weekend,funny thing other divers have said the same thing about not seeing any snapper ,l have a dive DVD and it said the snapper are to smart to be caught by divers, they get out of it reel fast,l got him between the second and third reef l think they call it the cannon.
l would love to know what you have seen down there,it's very hard to get the full picture of the reef on the fishfinder.
They tell me there are two ship wreck on the reef,one was about 1890 and the other about 1920 have you seen them
l agree a 7mm steel shaft would make short work of a big kingie but you would want to hit him in the right spot.

 

[Jesse_Ape]

Hi SpottyMac,

The Reef at kingscliff is truely beautiful and is a sight to behold on a clear day. It is an amazing reef. One of the best I have seen so close to shore. I have seen the wreaks they are over rated as there is not much left of them now but they sometimes hold a fair bit of bait . Which in turn holds big fish , jack hang round 'em in summer too. There is a really nice cave at kingscliff that sometimes holds monster jew and Jacks but it's only good if you spear plus it holds a big black cod. There are some really good cray holes too but I will never tell where they are

The snapper are sneaky little ninja fish. They are one off, if not the hardest fish to shoot on the east coast of Australia. I have seen them off mortern but they leave the area REALLY quickly. I have heard of a few guys spearing them off kingscliff but only in 20m of water. You really need to be quite round snapper... jumping of a boat doesn't do anything for your odds .

At kingscliff I have seen ..... Kingfish, Cobia, Jew , Jacks, HUGE Bream (i got a small one at 42cm once), blue bar parrot, Blue Grouper in plauge proportions (all the time, can't take on spear), goaties, fingermark, tuskies, big black cod (can't take) talior, tarwhine, luderic plus alot of other fish not worth mentioning. ie wobbie, lepard sharks, drummer etc

The Best thing I ever saw of kingscliff was humpback whales I literally got within 20cm of them whilst in the water....there was a pod of three damn they are huge majestic creature.

I once saw a HUGE adult sunfish in the tweed river... that was a weird day. It was about 2.5m in diameter and 70cm thick it had an eye ball like a tennis ball

I used to line fish but spearing opens up your eyes as to whats underneath. You get more dive time than a bubbly, more fish than a lineo, more exercise than both together and you get to shoot stuff Man it's fun but not for those who are sensible. Something is not right about being 15m deep on a single breath but you get used to it. My little brother shot a fish in 20m of water on sunday he is diving better than me

There is more fish at fidos but

Anyways enough of my rambleings I am going to bed

Cheers

Jesse

 

[Zed]

That's a beauty kawakawa! I'd like to eat one of those fresh.

Z

 

[Kevin]

Great brace of fish Stu.