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34' Blackwatch "Ymer" For the Brisbane Interclub we had a crew of my fellow Kingaroy Sportfishing Club members aboard. Bakes who just rejoined, Clint who was Russ' usual deckie before he moved to Cooktown along with young Radunzy. It is a 5 species comp so we were actually out there to try and get a few Striped Tuna, Wahoo, maybe a Mahi Mahi, possibly a Black and then whatever else bit to make up the 5. We would then try for Spotties, Schoolies, Mack Tuna and Longtails on the Sunday out of Bakes' boat. Well the plan started off good. A double on Stripeys, one on 6kg line and the other on 4kg. I could see Brooksy shaking his head in bewilderment allready, 3 of the 5 outfits we were trolling were levelwinds, the 320 GTI Penn with 4kg aboard was on a rod with no gimbal so sat upside down, a Tica with 6kg looked more like a Barra reel, my little 4kg outfit was at least on a Gary Howard Interceptor, one 6kg outfit was fine sporting Stren line on a TLD-15 and the shotty was one
of the 8kg boat outfits. A Wahoo went away sporting a little yellow streamer a short while later then we had our most boring period of the day, a whole hour and a half of it. From that time on we were unhooked for no more than five minutes at any time for about the next four hours. At the end we had waits of 20 odd then 30 odd minutes. Certainly made up for those fishless days.
Starting off Bakes popped one off on 6kg straight under the
 boat. I said to fight on the button for a bit of extra drag. Maybe with less line out it was too much or the mad jumping at the start had seen it or another fish knick the line. We could only fish 1.5 times the rod length of leader and double combined under ANSA rules for the weekend. A far cry from the 4.5m length of leader allowed under gamefishing rules. This fish was on a current line with a bit of bait. Then we saw it. A mass of birds and Dolphins. All we had to do then was go from bird flock to bird flock. All this activity was right on a current line. Next to hook up was Radunzy or Clint. Anyway they both got one on 6kg in the final wash up. Then the unthinkable happened. Radunzy was on on 4kg. I had a 4" Christmas Tree out targetting the Tuna on one of the 4kgs on one side and a minnow on the other side. Must have looked good to a Marlin as we had one up on the minnow so we wound it out of the way (didn't want to fight him trebles on 4kg as we knew what the inevitable result would be) so he switched straight over to the Christmas Tree while we were clearing it. A good little fight ensued and we had him. Top marks to everyone. Think after the tag went in someone locked up on him on the leader and we got the lure back. All in all a quick fight. A bit of hook bending and that lure was back in action accounting for one of our only hookups where the fish spat the hook after the first run once again on the 320GTI a short while later.  Somewhere in there we must have switch baited a fish on a dead Yakka Brooksy rigged and pitched. Bakes took over and brought the lever up to strike slowly on the circle hook leading to the first of his three on 8kg. A while later we had a good solid hookup on the good 6kg outfit from the right rigger with Clint on strike. Another fish was in the pattern so we tried for the double pitching. It faded away and by that stage Clint had lost a lot of line on the light outfit and we must have got done on water pressure. Clint was up next on the 6kg level wind outfit and this one gave us some grief. I took a few miracle deep tag shot chances instead of waiting early on and by missing we ended up pulling hooks over an hour and a half later. If we had tagged that one in record time who knows how many we could have ended up with on the day? Anyway we will never know. It was all to do with the Karma thing. No top line lures were swum on the day, we didn't want to donate them unnecessarily but you could imagine the result, we wouldn't have done any good on them the way our day was going. We had another game boat beside us all day and we wouldn't have got more than 500m away from each other all afternoon yet we heard he only ended up on two tagged fish from six chances.
Gradually we replaced the 4kgs as it seemed there were no other species out there other than Black Marlin. What a shame. We also started to switch bait running hookless teasers. Only thing is the last couple of hookups came on the lures still with hooks in them. Anyway once we raised a couple of Wahoo, with one claiming one of my good lures run hookless and nearly getting one of Brooksys the decision was made to head in. An awesome day on the water in great conditions - miles better than the forecast.
 On Sunday we fished for Tuna with the boys tagging some Mack Tuna on 2,3 and 4kg. They were too good for them on 1kg and any Longtails that were cast to weren't interested in anything we cast including slugs, plastics and poppers. A Schoolie on 3kg for Glen that was lost at the boat would have allowed him to clean up in the points but it wasn't to be. No Spotties were sighted but some Brisbane members did manage to spin up some Frigates. We all crossed Caloundra bar for the first time and headed down the Passage to sinnaker for a full circumnavigation of the island for the morning. Clint made up part of the winning Kingaroy team
with Bob Dover and Choppy. Bakes won Offshore Tagging and most of us walked away with something from the raffles or lucky door prizes. A top weekend
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