queensland blame the banana. report from Palm Beach reef 9/2/14

[Aggro101]

Well the forecast looked good, and after Callum had a chat with Tugger, we decided to leave my place at midnight to be on the water by 2.30am so we could fill the bait tank with livies before being on the spot by 4.30am.

Leaving the ramp Callum pulls out some awesome tasting sausages for breakfast and then puts 2 bananas on top of the esky. Hmm, should have just gone home right then, lol.

No livies at my normal bait marks so we decided to just head to the palmy mark and try there.

It was very sloppy conditions which made the run there quite slow, but we were there by 4am to find 2 other boats already there and Callum started setting lines while I jigged bait.

I started feeling queezy which is very strange for me on my own boat, but it passed soon after sunrise.

Using live yakkas, we lost a couple of baits early with no hook ups and Callum almost hooked into another, but still no joy.

By now the boat count on the reef was huge, best guess is well over 70 boats!

By 9am the weather was looking like closing in and I made the call to head home fishless.

Sloppy ride back and the seaway was a bit turbulent, but not too bad.

I think Callum took a handful of pics of the conditions.

[rayke1938]

You need one of these.

Cheers

Ray

[Bi_polar]

There were no boats there yesterday and spanish clearing the water everywhere and then this morning there was nothing and literally a hundred boats.

You can't pick it

[Shane69]

It was quite yesterday compared to saturday.

I blame it on no sun and small tides.

Its fishing i guess

[jnewy]

my mate wanted me to go with him on sunday but i was painting a house the bugger came back with 7 macks and a marlin and he rubbed it in such is life lol

[crazywalrus]

hmmmm Callum you broke the first rule of being a Decky. NO BANANAS !!!!!!!!!