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I looked at the pics this morning and pinched my self, was that for real
Kingscliff hasn't been performing lately so Steven and Trevor decided to explore further south.
We hit the water at daybreak the weather was perfect about 1 M of swell and a slight breeze from the NW at 4 knots, we trolled Halco lures for while looking for a suitable spot to anchor up.
We found a rubbly bottom about 1.5 K's out in 18M of water with a few bait schools showing on the sounder.
Steven dropped anchor and l decided to give SP a go l have been hearing some good report from a mate down south drifting them down in the current and catching snapper.
l'am using 20lb Fireline and 20lb mono leader on my TSS4 reel and decided to give the Gulp water melon jerk shads a go on a 7gr jig head.
l let out about 25m of line and drifted back over the bait school,the next thing l hear that reel go off,Trevor yells out your on,l grabbed the rod and started to work the fish up to the surface it had the tell tale head shaking of a snapper,you beauty my first snapper it all seemed to easy about half way up he must have relised he was hooked then the battle began in some big runs for the bottom.
Five min later he was still going hard and we couldn't work out what it was,ten min later l could see it under the yak but didn't realise how big he was until l had him beside the yak
Kingscliff hasn't been performing lately so Steven and Trevor decided to explore further south.
We hit the water at daybreak the weather was perfect about 1 M of swell and a slight breeze from the NW at 4 knots, we trolled Halco lures for while looking for a suitable spot to anchor up.
We found a rubbly bottom about 1.5 K's out in 18M of water with a few bait schools showing on the sounder.
Steven dropped anchor and l decided to give SP a go l have been hearing some good report from a mate down south drifting them down in the current and catching snapper.
l'am using 20lb Fireline and 20lb mono leader on my TSS4 reel and decided to give the Gulp water melon jerk shads a go on a 7gr jig head.
l let out about 25m of line and drifted back over the bait school,the next thing l hear that reel go off,Trevor yells out your on,l grabbed the rod and started to work the fish up to the surface it had the tell tale head shaking of a snapper,you beauty my first snapper it all seemed to easy about half way up he must have relised he was hooked then the battle began in some big runs for the bottom.
Five min later he was still going hard and we couldn't work out what it was,ten min later l could see it under the yak but didn't realise how big he was until l had him beside the yak
