After finishing my False Enterance trip i had plans to continue heading up to Quobba to see what all the fuss was about on my own and with no return date planned i knew i would have plenty of time to have a good explore around.

pulled out of overlander and said my goodbyes to the guys from the false trip and headed north, stopping in canarvon for supplies and off i went. Got in about lunch time and quickly threw everything out of ther car at my camp spot and went exploring. Used a hand drawn map i had made from google earth research and pics of others fishing and started pin pointing all of the common spots and some more possible locations. ended up walking to Garths for a quick arvo flick just to explore but the water was a absolutely filthy green colour that i didnt escape for the entire trip, horrible water and fish where very very hard to come by but i set myself a goal of one decent fish a day and stuck to tried and tested methods for me. First morning i picked up a nice cobia on the 30lb gear at Garths second cast and dropped a fish a few casts later, the next few days where a lot less lucky than that with a good 7-10 hours of spinning a day put into getting 1-2 hookups for one fish landed generally. caught a massive array of species with a lot landed solo including gaffing on very light gear from 20-50lb. i did spend a lot of time targetting GT's but for no sucess on the heavy gear, the water was just to dirty and fish just not around so ill be back to tick that one off.

Only used 3 main setups the entire trip and it covered everything i wanted.
Assassin Amia 11ft pe1-2, 20lb Tasline and 3012H Certate and that caught me 2 Grey Macks, 2 Shark Macks
Gary Howard spin cast pro 4-6kg 9ft 30lb Tasline, 4000 Catalina and that landed 1 big spango, 1 cobia, 1 big goldspot, 1 pinky
Assassin Sierra 2XH 11ft, 50lb JBD 4X braid and a twinpower 5000 with a 7000 spool. got one small GT, 1 Grey mack, 1 big spango, 2 Mack tuna, 1 shark mack, 1 tiny spanish.

spent hours and hours driving all over the station to try and find patches of cleaner water to spin in, lost some absolute amazing fish to either bad luck or silly mistkaes. just a cursed trip for me but we all get them.

First big fish was a horse of a GT that ate my lure at the edge of the rocks on the 50lb gear after getting a tip wrap so while i took it out the fish grabbed the lure, fought it for 10 minutes before i had it surfaced and buggered before a wave washed it over a rock and caught my line up, i freespooled then fought the fish gently through the reef for 40 minutes before it finally broke free and lost it.

Second fish was a very large tuna that i must of landed the lure on its head because i couldnt close the bail arm on the reel line was leaving that quick, came up tight and it puilled 200m of 50lb off my twinpower before coming back at me and going deep then after 10 minutes the hooks pulled somehow.

Third still haunts me and makes me want to burn the Jerry Brown factory to the ground. Fishing Garths one arvo on my own and seen one huge shark and a smaller shark come up to look at a bird on the surface so out of instinct i grabbed the 30lb setup with a plastic on it which i had just respooled with Jerry brown solid braid as i got spooled and lost the other line the day before on the catalina. cast at these sharks as they dissapeared into the green depths, seconf twitch and came up tight, fought this monster all over the place for an hour before it came to the surface absolutelly buggered, turns out what i thought was a second shark was in fact a 1.5-1.6m Cobia!!! with the fish pretty much done i backed the drag off to be safe and started steering it to the gaff in my hand. about 10m from the ledge the braid just popped out of nowhere and i watched a possible 30-40kg cobia slowly cruise back into the depths. 

Stil landed some great fish and for mostly solo (Thanks to the guys who helped gaff my fish) on my first trip to quobba in very hard conditions i did very well to bag myself out in 6 days and stayed for a total of 8 before calling it quits, ill be back again at some stage and best of all i didnt get sharked once on the lighter gear which i was suprised about.

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