Departed Marsden Point at 7.30am, the ride over fairly smooth with a little chop. Jumped in at one of the Islands and was greeted with ok vis, around 15-18m and 13.5 degree water. It felt much colder than that with my fingers and toes going numb after just an hour, but the rest of the body was coping well.
Saw about 6-7 snapper up to 2kg below me over the weed in 6m, they seemed very chilled to say the least and it wasnt until i dived down on top of them that they slowly ghosted away. But one little guy maybe 1kg was doing its normal routine, im so confused (pectoral fins going all over the joint). Might have been going soft but i just decided how close I could get to him without firing the gun, probably got within 10cm of the spear tip before he bolted for it!
Swam past Herbys famous snapper burley spot, better not rape it or I'll never hear the end of it were my thoughts! Next was the weedline. Big schools of Jack macks around just going around in cirlces. I made a few dives in amongst them to see if any Johnnies were hiding. Nothing. Moved down the coast a bit and saw another school of jacks from the surface, this time I saw that UFO I had been looking for giving the jacks a hard time. Would be rude not to make the hunter the hunted, and pinned it to the sea floor.
Collected my final blueys for my research and decided to try a tad of idiot sticking with the old man until I had warmed up a bit. Caught a couda, old man got a 3kg snapper. Also found another goldie spot but this depth is way out of our league, well the majority anyway at 60m.
With the suns rays warming me up I decided to spend the rest of the afternoon snooping new territory. Kick, kick, kick, was pretty much all i did. I came to a nice ledge with a gut, and in amongst it were maybe 50-100 Blueys doing nothing. I reach for my camera and start taking pics, and the blueys finally realise im there and come in to say hi. While im doing this a 2-3kg snapper must have seen the excitement on their faces and join them coming within 3m of me. No gun, no glory.
Also Muffed a shot at a 2kg where its tail was facing towards me and it wouldnt move side on for a shot, Argggg. Third fish I saw was 3kg out in the open so i backed off ever so slowly, and with a bit of kina thrown over the ledge I was prepared for the good stuff. Gun blazing eyes open i came over the ledge. WTF, where have you gone? The phantom snapper strikes again.
4th snapper, well you can guess I miss this one as well. Late afternoon, sun in my face, not the ideal way to do it. I just make out the outline of a 3kg snapper coming towards me, but with its sun behind its back, I stick out like dog balls and it quickly bolts.
Was a funny day with not much fish, but well worth the trip.
Oh yea, gun with new shaft in it mjl is wicked, shoots straight!
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