Marks Hope
Hi All,
Thought I would throw up my first report, hopefully plenty more to come
Was sitting at home a few months ago looking over the Navionics that I had loaded on the computer looking for some new ground and came acroos what apparently was a bit of ground that came up from 40 to 36 metres and thought to myself I must try and mark that on the GPS on the boat and check it out one day. Anyway night before heading out I rememberd that lump and jumped on the GPS on the boat and found the area and marked it and called it Mark's Hope and thought I would give it a go tomorrow. So Saturday morning get everything sorted and said to the crew that we would go and check this spot out and see how we go had about an hour and a bit to travel and was a few hours before the high tide so decided to do a bit of trawellin and see if we can pick something up . Hooked a couple of doggy mackrel on the trawel but not much else so it was lines out and time to get out and check out Mark's Hope. First drift was a size bluebone but nothing else, second drift not a thing, third drift same as the second and the crew are starting to give me a bit of curry about travelling 55kms out with nothing to show for it so we thought OK one last drift and then head back home to stop at a spot on the way back. Couple of minutes into the drift and BANG I'm on and think to myself this is a half decent fish but didn't want to say too much to the crew just in case. After a good fight and a fair bit of huffingg and puffing I'm half way up and Kev (crew mmber fishing beside me) hooks up and reckons he has a bigger fish on. I get mine to the surface yelling for the gaff and over the side comes a 8kg Rankin, 
the rest of us a high fivin and yahooing whilst Kev is still trying to get his up and still after seeing the Rankin reckons he has a bigger fish on. After a fair bit of work he gets his along side the boat and he has an 8kg Red Emporer 
(more high fives and yahooing once it is in the boat). All of a sudden Mark's hope was the best and the boys on the other side of the boat are wanting another drift so that they can get into the action so we had one more crack at it but didn't have any luck. It was a great trip back with a few beers to celebrate finding some new ground.
Cheers
Mark
Callum24
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love it when a plan comes
love it when a plan comes together
We've had plenty of late nights finding lumps and on google earth finding landbased spots half the fun hey
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quest
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Nice write up
Nice write up and nice to see you got rewarded for your effort. Mark's hope will have to get change now to Mark's R/R spot. Good looking fish.
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Yeah bloody oath good stuff
Yeah bloody oath good stuff
Heinz
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Crackin fish mate, top
Crackin fish mate, top effort. Makes the gamble well worth it!
Stevo81
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Some cracking fish off some
Some cracking fish off some new ground! Nice work!
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mullows
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How cool do rankins look
How cool do rankins look when they come straight outta the water?? A red like that looks pretty damn coo too!
Well done fellas, put in the effort, reap the rewards.
Cheers
Mullows
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Mark M
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Cheers guysFishing out of
Cheers guys
Fishing out of Dampier Stevo
They are an awesome looking fish when they first come out of the water Mullows but they loose their colour really quick.
Madmerv
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Great Catch
Some nice fish there and both are at the top of the list for a feed.
Well done.
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