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Jason 'Squidder' Price with a nice 55cm Blue Morwong
The weekends forecast was looking good for a session on the Snapper so i met up with Squidder in the early hours of Saturday morning and we headed for the launch spot near Wasp island. The wind was quite a bit stronger than predicted and the current was pushing in the same direction which made drifting difficult but we kept at it hoping to score some big Snapper.
We sounded up some good ground and some large bait schools but not much was happening, not even the usual rubbish fish, we tried deeper up to 25m of water, then in close in 7m of water and everything in between until eventually Squidder landed a Snapper that measured 45cm's. Still nothing on the scoreboard for me so a few changes of lure and colours later i hooked onto a reasonable fish which i dropped after a short fight so i opened the bail arm and dropped the lure back down and hooked up again immediately, but after another short fight the hook pulled again!!
I persisted in the area for a while after that with no more luck so we paddled south towards a headland that looked promising and started a new drift in about 15m of water. I started getting some solid takes on my first cast but again was not getting solid hook ups, i heard a noise to my left and looked over to see Squidder in a battle with a good fish, it was fighting hard on the light gear and made several good runs before he eventually got colour on it for the first time and it turned out to be a good Mowie that measured at 55cm's.
We continued drifting south with me hooking and dropping fish every couple of minutes and still had no fish on the board. Squidder then lands himself a nice Snapper that went about 60cm's, shortly after that local gun fisho Greg Lewis turns up and lands a 6lb Snapper from under our nose to show us how its done. The wind was only getting stronger and we had quite a distance to paddle to make it back to our starting point so we all decided to call it a day at that point.
So another fishless trip for me makes it 3 in a row and counting, surely my luck has to change soon!!
