Noosa fishing report April 2008 Part 2

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The weather once again has hammered us! We did manage a couple of trips though. The 12th of April saw us head out to North reef on a Full day fishing Charter. We departed the Sheraton Jetty Noosa at 6am, and steamed out to North. It was a long day of searching, with a feed, but not much more by the end of it. We came home with Moari Cod, Sweetlip, greasy cod, moses perch and Parrot. As far as long days goes, this was the longest in some time. There were some decent hookups, but they didn't seem to be able to be landed!
The next trip we could get out on was the 14th April. We managed two trips. The morning trip was a 1/2 day tour that saw us head straight out to the bottom end of Sunshine reef. Being so close to the coast always enables more fishing time, and, aside from that, the other close reefs to Noosa havn't seemed to be working as well. The first drop of the pick was close in, and yeilded Parrot and moses Perch. We moved a little further north, and wider. We found a nice Pearl Perch, and shortly after, a couple of nice Spotted Mackerel. The last spot was one I hadn't visited for a few months, and we picked up a couple of fish there, but it was as everyone was winding up to head home that Barry hooked onto a nice Cobia, and faught well with the fish determined no to come near the boat. (Top left pic).
After the last spots firing up, the afternoon 1/2 day fishing trip saw us head straight out to Sunshine again. On the way out, we found some Bonito boiling, unable to resist, we threw some slugs at them, but they didn't seem too interested.
The spot that had fired in the morning was slow in the afternoon, with only a Morwong caught. We headed closer in, where we found two Coral Trout, Moses Perch, Sweetlip, and Snapper.
We headed home with a nice feed of fish once again. (I won't mention Greg helping).