queensland Glenlyon.

[rayke1938]

We arrived just after midday and unpacked and got on the water around 4pm just in time for the dark clouds to roll in. I got none yella around 35cm nbefore we had to hitail it due to the thunder etc. We arrived back to the ramp to find out that Grahams new electric winch would not work so we ended up getting drenched while we had to wind the boat up manually.

After the storm passed we had a play with the winch and found that it has a on off switch to enable the remote. :evil:

Hope tomorrow will be a better day.

Graham also left his landing net and gaff at home.

CHeers

Ray

[ellicat]

Would love to have heard what Graham muttered :blush: :pinch: :ohmy:

Did Brian tell you what's been happening fishwise ?

[T Fisher]

Better luck tomorrow ray hope you find a good sized cod or two

[rayke1938]

Some got 30 yellas this morning we donutted

Cheers

Ray

[rayke1938]

Graham got one yella this arvo people one boat length away got 17.

Graham really loves his ALDI winch the wire rope has jumped the spool and now locked around the shaft.Going to be a complete dismantle job tomorrow.

Cheers

Ray

[rayke1938]

View from front of cabin

One for Kurt.

At least we have fish for tea tonight

[Binder4]

Those silvers look legal, 5/0 hook through the shoulder and toss em back in and hold on!

[big al]

ray im heading there myself later in the week ill keep an eye out for you ..can you hire boats there. :cheer: al

[rayke1938]

we are in cabin 12 boats are 90 bucks per day

[big al]

ray thanks for that :cheer: al

[rayke1938]

About to conduct a banana search in boat.

Grahams shrimp pump burnt out overnight so all dead shrimp this morning.

Fuel hose connection came off fuel tank under casting deck whilst travelling on dam.

I dropped the only fish of the morning ( A silver that may have gone 25cm)

My Gunslinger and twinpower 1000 now residing in 60 feet of water. ( Knocked out of Berkley rodholder whilst retrieving anchor).

CHeers

Ray

[Surfingant]

Geez Ray, you two aren't having much luck are you? Hope you sort things out and you start getting onto a decent fish or two.

[Dinodadog]

Everybody is having problems I would like to know what got under my hat and bit the hell out of my head, after many sore lumps in my head then my left ear lymph node swole up, then this morning my left eye was closed up, it nearly stopped me from fishing, but was still able to cast in the right places for a few.

Sorry to hear about the run of bad luck down there, keep positive though

[jnewy]

it can only get better ray.looks like a great place hope the rest of your stay is better and you catch the big ones

[rayke1938]

Bit happier tonight found some fish at last. Sitting on the bottom in 15 feet of water. Ended up with around 12 yellas,8 tandans and one silver.All in around one hour session.

Cheers

Ray

[tomca]

gee Ray, don't wanna make you feel worse, but when I was out there a couple of months back all I could catch was cod, not a single other species, just cod, cod and cod

There is always tomorrow

[ellicat]

gee Ray, don't wanna make you feel worse, but when I was out there a couple of months back all I could catch was cod, not a single other species, just cod, cod and cod

There is always tomorrow

Standing on the back of the fingerling truck with a scoop net doesn't count

[rayke1938]

3 yrllas 12 silvers 2 tandans this morn.

my rod and reel here.

Our morning visitors.

Nice fat one.

Tandans are very dark here.

Our honey spot.

Cheers

Ray

[madmullet]

thanks for the teasing photo ray.

i am thinking about your banana idea and come to thing of it, their were 2 bananas in the esky that ash packed that probably contributed to the flat tyre at borumba on the weekend

[dassa]

Good to see thing's have improved for you mate was starting to think you had bombed shanghai lol

[rayke1938]

2 silvers and 5 yellas tonight cod still elusive gave up after trolling for 2 hours then bait fished.

Cheers'

Ray

[fisherjack1394]

2 silvers and 5 yellas tonight cod still elusive gave up after trolling for 2 hours then bait fished.

Cheers'

Ray

nicce ray.. just across from the boat ramp, there is a little bay.. go about half way up that bay and fish alon the left hand side. there is usially a good school of yellas along there.. we got about 40 out from there not long back

[rayke1938]

5 yellas and 2 silvers last night. We tried new location for our shrimp pots overnight and only got 12 shrimp so we spent 6 hours trolling this morning for plenty of weed and snags but thankfully didnt lose any lures.

Met up with Big Al at the ramp. He was fortunate to be taken out by one of the locals and had a good morning

Few showers now but not much wind so looking forward to arvo session.

Cheers

Ray

[fenelious]

About to conduct a banana search in boat.

Grahams shrimp pump burnt out overnight so all dead shrimp this morning.

Fuel hose connection came off fuel tank under casting deck whilst travelling on dam.

I dropped the only fish of the morning ( A silver that may have gone 25cm)

My Gunslinger and twinpower 1000 now residing in 60 feet of water. ( Knocked out of Berkley rodholder whilst retrieving anchor).

CHeers

Ray

Geez mate, I hope things get better for you soon

Maybe you and Booty should get together and cancel each other out

-Steve.

[rayke1938]

A few photos from this morning.

Its thirsty work trolling.

Frequent stops to clear weed.

Very thirsty.

Graham was wondering why he wasnt getting any hits on this lure.

Prickly pear all in flower.

Ran into Steve Brooks and crew from DPI who had been doing an electrofish in the Locals rivers.

They were removing earbones from the fish for research and measuring and sexing the fish.

One thing that surprised me was the fact that fish that were 65cm long were not sexually mature and yest there is a move to reduce the legal size of mrc.

I got to hold this one .

It was taken in the macintyre at Goondiwindi.

Cheers

Ray

[rayke1938]

Back home a day early. We had another session on the yellas yesterday arvo but came in early cold and wet and then spent a fair while talking to Brian Dare and the DPI boys.

Talk about a dedicated bunch ! The hours and effort that they put in is amazing.

Woke up a bit late this morning to it still raining but off we went for some more yellas but the cold and wet got to us again so around 10 am we decided to pack it in and return home.

Didnt really count how many fish we caught but we brought home 8 yella fillets each and each of us scored a prized piece of cod from Brian. We ate 3 silvers and one yella whilst there and released all others.

Really glad that we went there and look forward to the next trip.

Got some more photos but cant locate the camera ATM

Cheers

Ray

[ellicat]

Good trip Ray. Enjoyed the tales. Reminded me of the trips I used to do with a bunch of mates before they all got pussy whipped and didn't have the kahunas to take leave :evil: That's why I live here now :silly:

[fenelious]

Great stuff Ray. Obviously your fortunes turned around and the trip ended up being super successful. Nice work.

-Steve.

[rayke1938]

Here are the last non fishing photos.

The drive out from Stanthorpe was really spectacular with lots of boronia and paper flowers in bloom. The country is the best looking in years. Reckon there will be a few new tractors and cars purchased by the farmers.

Brian has a good selection of lures from the local cottage lure makers plus some of the better known ones.

Interesting lures from Jaz who have picked up the rights of the tenterfield darts and shrimps designed by the legendary Trevor Mcpheetors.

Also a good selection of Tom Barrats Gidgee lures.

Brian and Debby mentioned that in the future they have some exciting news about a new venture featuring handcrafted Australian lures.

Did you know that there are over 3000 Australian lure manufactures out there

CHeers

Ray

[elops]

Good report Ray, well done to highlight the work done by Brooksy, Dan and crew.

Looking forward to seeing the complete otilith data. Maturity of some fish is entirely age based and not related to size. Likely that impoundment fish which grow much faster in the food rich impoundments mature at a much larger size than wild fish.

[ellicat]

One time we were out there and one of the crew was in the bad books with the wife as we stayed longer than planned. On the way home he grabbed a bunch of those yellow flowers. Of course they didn't last the trip home. The dead flowers were not welcomed and made things worse ! Apparently it's not the thought that counts :pinch:

Spectacular display though !!