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Trip Reports Mackay Newry Islands | Newry Islands | | Print | |
| Written by carl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thursday, 30 July 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trimaran trolling for Queensland Queenies  Usual launch at Victor Creek boat ramp on the last hour of the outgoing tide, stiff and a consistent 13 – 15 knot wind SSW. Getting out was easy I was drifting fast enough to give the CD11 I was trolling a decent action and sailing took me to good speeds skimming through the short chop. Leaving the channels I weaved my way through several trawlers anchored up, what wind too strong for you guys? Hehe... I had fun playing with the camera and as I was passing Aciacia island the rod went off big time, bouncing around in the holder with line started to peel off at a rate of knots. I kept cool and used the momentum of the AI to keep pressure on the line whilst I adjusted the camera and furled the sail. Grabbing the rod and applying pressure saw a big Queenfish leap out of the water about 100 metres away. I wish I caught the acrobatics on film... it was awesome. The fish kept on the surface, leaping and tail walking several times before it went down to try and use the incoming tide as leverage. It took several minutes of steady lift and wind to finally turn it's head then it came to the surface easily.  Had I kept trolling this area I probably would have caught more, but the wind was calling and the white caps proved too tempting plus, there's fish out there too. The next 2.5 hours is a blurr of green water and blue sky, needless to say I got soaked by waves coming over the bow and the relentless spray. Heading downwind like the end of the video was the calmest, but I mostly played, err trolled out the front of Outer Newry. I got one massive strike that peeled a ton of line in a couple of seconds and actually warmed up my reel a little on a tight drag setting. But other then that nothing else was forth coming. Sailed past fish rock and in between the 2 Newry Islands then on to the head land where I hooked that last big barra all for nothing. Somewhere along the line that Cd11 got it's rear smashed and will need some woodwork to fix it.
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