queensland NPD 13/9/17

[rayke1938]

Went with Don and Graham for a foggy start.

Good thing we had the GPS to find our way out of the bay.

Still plenty of fish on live shrimp. We picked up over 30 at first drop all around the 40cm mark but about 1/4 of them had varying degrees of fin rot.

Looks like the water quality could be dropping with a lot of green slime up close to the ramp and lots of algae particles in the water further downstream. Hope we are not in for an outbreak of blue green algae which would result in the closure of the dam whilst it is fishing so well.

Sorry no fish photos as we were too busy catching fish.

Total of 105 after running out of bait.

 Cheers

Ray

[Bassnutter78]

Hi Ray.  

No problems getting in the gate. I heard there was a issue happened yesterday. 

 

Chris

[rayke1938]

All ok problem yesterday was with leaseholders lock not the PRFMA. PRFMA"s intervention resulted in a speedy resolution.

Cheers

Ray

[Bassnutter78]

Hi Ray. 

That's good to hear. Praise to all envoled to clear up the issue. The reason I asked. I am keen to fish with a mate who told me about what happened. He wasn't sure if it might hinder the asscess to the dam this weekend. 

Chris

[Drop Bear]

Nice that they are fishing well. I hope the pesky green snot weed doesnt take hold. 

Do you need to buy a special mount for the electric motor? I have one that I was going to put on my stupid yellow boat and want a use for it but I dont know how I would attach it to my tinny. Thinking of heading to Hinze.

[Luc53]

If the bow section of your boat is flat, you can bolt the bowmount directly to it. otherwise you may need to have a flat piece of aluminium welded on to give a suitable bolting area.

if you want to make the engine detachable, you need to get a mounting plate such as https://www.dinga.com.au/watersnake-quick-release-bracket-nylon-55502.html

[Drop Bear]

3 hours ago, Luc53 said:

If the bow section of your boat is flat, you can bolt the bowmount directly to it. otherwise you may need to have a flat piece of aluminium welded on to give a suitable bolting area.

You have just saved me thousands. I didn't know you could bolt it to the front of the boat. My tinny is a car topper and has a perfectly flat bow section. Ok. This weeks project is to mount this and build a proper housing for sounder battery and sounder and housing for the electric battery..... I hope this doesn't overweight my boat again.... !

[Angry51]

11 minutes ago, Drop Bear said:

and hYou have just saved me thousands. I didn't know you could bolt it to the front of the boat. My tinny is a car topper and has a perfectly flat bow section. Ok. This weeks project is to mount this and build a proper housing for sounder battery and sounder ousing for the electric battery..... I hope this doesn't overweight my boat again.... !

DropBear, When we put the MotorGuide on our boat I think it's now a bit heavy for the

15hp merc. Will be looking to upgrade it in a couple of years.

Gets on the plane but struggles. The leccy more than makes up for that

disadvantage I think.

  Cheers

 Gary

[Luc53]

I'd be installing it on a mounting plate so you can remove it before car-topping it.