We had a short window to pop out for a couple of hours on Wednesday so myself and stead Launched at 12.45. As we left the river we were greeted with very big swells which was a bit of a shock as the winds were light it must have been a rough night before.
The plan was to steam out to oxwich just to fish for tope but we were only able to plod at 8 knots so that plan was scrapped and we headed to the reef which on a good day takes around 25 mins to reach but it took us an hour to get there giving us even less fishing time as we both needed to be back in by 5pm. Stead was looking a bit green by the time we got there so I set his rod up for him and we got the baits in the water. It started a little quiet with nothing happening when suddenly both our reels started screaming and to be honest we were caught a little unaware and we both missed them doh. We now knew the tope were there so we were ready and not long after stead had a run an boated a nice little tope of around 20lb we don't weigh them just a pic then back in the water. We then had a pretty hectic 2 hrs boating 6 tope and missed around 5 runs. Before we knew it was time to head back in but what an enjoyable trip it was with great action
The plan was to steam out to oxwich just to fish for tope but we were only able to plod at 8 knots so that plan was scrapped and we headed to the reef which on a good day takes around 25 mins to reach but it took us an hour to get there giving us even less fishing time as we both needed to be back in by 5pm. Stead was looking a bit green by the time we got there so I set his rod up for him and we got the baits in the water. It started a little quiet with nothing happening when suddenly both our reels started screaming and to be honest we were caught a little unaware and we both missed them doh. We now knew the tope were there so we were ready and not long after stead had a run an boated a nice little tope of around 20lb we don't weigh them just a pic then back in the water. We then had a pretty hectic 2 hrs boating 6 tope and missed around 5 runs. Before we knew it was time to head back in but what an enjoyable trip it was with great action