queensland 2017 Seq Suburbs Of Origin - Round 1 - May 25-27

[kmcrosby78]

Rumour has it our trump card has waken (by his wife ....) from sleeping all day ......

[ellicat]

A late entry.

Here we have a 59cm flathead -

 

and a 29.5cm bream -

Benno got the flattie and I may have got the bream (can't remember, sorry - give it to Benno )

[Doyley]

My efforts for Team Northside.  Got a few hours in the Passage this morning.

Flatty @  47cm 

 

Bream @ 29cm

 

[Richy]

Will be heading out in the morning, will Monday still count?

[Luvit]

5 minutes ago, Richy said:

Will be heading out in the morning, will Monday still count?

I believe it finishes at 7pm tonight. It's for bragging rights so post your pics anyway. 

 

[timtam_]

@Doyley I love your work. 

[Old Scaley]

54 minutes ago, kmcrosby78 said:

  Well done on the squire @Old Scaley - what's the lure?

It is a zerek ripper diver, Kelvin. There is still one out there. I got sliced off twice and found the lure floating once so I reckon the other one is floating out there somewhere.

[Luke Landrunner]

.......that's all you've got Soufsiders ?

[benno573]

8 minutes ago, Luke Landrunner said:

.......that's all you've got Soufsiders ?

Ummm...

bass goes to @Dinodadog (north)

tailor to @Luke Landrunner (north)

snapper to @Old Scaley (south)

bream to me (south)

flathead to me (south)

 

so yeah, that's all we've got. And it's all we need! 

[Old Scaley]

9 minutes ago, benno573 said:

Ummm...

bass goes to @Dinodadog (north)

tailor to @Luke Landrunner (north)

snapper to @Old Scaley (south)

bream to me (south)

flathead to me (south)

 

so yeah, that's all we've got. And it's all we need! 

Never in doubt really. 

[kmcrosby78]

Q.What's the difference between a Northsider and a Southsider (well, apart from the obvious ones .....)?

A. Three ..........

 

Southsider!!!!  Well done @benno573 and @Old Scaley (oh and @ellicat for getting out of bed in time ....).

 

[Luvit]

Congratulations Mexicans. 

Looking forward to the next round when all our injuries woes have passed. Back to full strength. 

[Doyley]

  arrggh soo close again.  

[Luke Landrunner]

Yes um well done. 

I thought @Doyley had the longer bream..... A tight 1/2 cm. 

[kmcrosby78]

16 minutes ago, Luvit said:

Congratulations Mexicans. 

Looking forward to the next round when all our injuries woes have passed. Back to full strength. 

Thanks Wayne  Rumour has it the New South Wales selectors are considering a raft of changes with many unperformers heads on the chopping block .......

[kmcrosby78]

Just now, kmcrosby78 said:

Thanks Wayne  Rumour has it the New South Wales selectors are considering a raft of changes with many unperformers heads on the chopping block .......

Woops I meant Northside selectors, bit of a typo there, not sure how I got them confused (I mean, as much as I hate them, NSW has actually won a game in recent-ish memory ......... )

[Luvit]

I was so looking forward to participating this round and if the boat was not running behind I was in. 

So keen for tomorrow. 

[kmcrosby78]

Yeah it's actually got me wondering if, given the low-ish participant numbers, we should look at running it over a longer period. One whole week, two weeks or possibly even the whole period between each actual (football) State of Origin games. There are advantages either way, but might include/tempt more people and would give us more of an excuse to go fishing ....  @christophagus - thoughts?  On the flipside doing this may mean people forget about it and don't take the required photos, so maybe if it's not broken, we don't fix it?

[Luvit]

Just extend it to Monday for Richy. (And me)

[kmcrosby78]

3 minutes ago, Luvit said:

Just extend it to Monday for Richy. (And me)

Hmmmm, tempting, but NO!!!!

[Luvit]

1 minute ago, kmcrosby78 said:

Hmmmm, tempting, but NO!!!!

Rules are rules. 

I knew you were scared. 

[kmcrosby78]

2 hours ago, Luke Landrunner said:

My contribution is for the Tailor category....

Over a few sessions on the yak I managed to land 5 fish and lose atleast that again and 3 bite offs.

All fish were 40-43 cm, couldn't land a 50+  The foul hookup on this beast left a few battle scars on it.

Pretty stocky looking tailor Luke. On surface?

[Luke Landrunner]

Yep. 

I just can't stop with surface lures and some of the hits the tailor were putting on were huge. 

Glad to be sending some down deep tomorrow. 

[kmcrosby78]

1 hour ago, Old Scaley said:

It is a zerek ripper diver, Kelvin. There is still one out there. I got sliced off twice and found the lure floating once so I reckon the other one is floating out there somewhere.

Thought it might have been one of those - will have to get some. Were you at Mud or front rockwall? I should really do it a bit out of Mud to try and suss the place out better (still feel like I don't really know it's layout well - which is codeword for I can't bl00dy work out where all the fish are!!).

Found navigating hard last night - my torch gave up on me, I thought my handheld GPS was lying to me and then realised it wasn't, but I'm still not sure I got as close to the island as I'd planned (same spot we went to that time). Had it all to myself and then over an hour period three boats came in between me and the island with bright lights (presumably squidding) making PLENTY of noise. One of them idled past barely 10m from the nose of my boat - can't have missed my anchor rope by alot. Amazing!!

Also, I caught this,anoyone got an ID? Looks like a deep sea species?

Also had a rather strange thing happen - had two rods out, one with a prawn on a circle hook and the other a large herring on two ganged hooks. Got a fish on the circle hook, reeled in an undersized grassie, noticed it had collected the other line as I got it into the boat, then went to remove the hook from the fish and noticed that the ganged hooks (minus the herring but there were no signs of a bite?) had caught around the circle hook (ie. were dangling beside the fishes mouth). You'll see in the photo that one of the ganged hooks has been crushed. So I'm left wondering what went on? My only (or most logical) guess is possibly that a mud crab has grabbed it and managed to bend the hook?

Unfortunately there was alot of phosphorescence around which I think made things quiet. There was however alot going on on the surface - upon reflection there was a lot of weed floating around due to the large tides so I'm wondering if the fish were attacking small shrimp and fish that were hiding amongst this?

[benno573]

Pretty sure that's a bullseye @kmcrosby78

no, it's not a darts joke, that's actually what they're called. I've caught several around mud in days gone by.

 

re the bent hook - giant toadfish? They do weird things to hooks.

[kmcrosby78]

Cheers for the ID Benno - strange looking creature and seemed to skitter off on the surface when I let it go (after contemplating turning into one or two large snapper baits ........ ). 

Yeah toadie is the other likely one, just strange that the rod didn't go off?

[Fishaman]

11 hours ago, kmcrosby78 said:

Yeah it's actually got me wondering if, given the low-ish participant numbers, we should look at running it over a longer period. One whole week, two weeks or possibly even the whole period between each actual (football) State of Origin games. There are advantages either way, but might include/tempt more people and would give us more of an excuse to go fishing ....  @christophagus - thoughts?  On the flipside doing this may mean people forget about it and don't take the required photos, so maybe if it's not broken, we don't fix it?

I only have two days a month that are a lock for me so having it open for one month gives me a better chance to participate. 

[Fishaman]

So is the official winner the Southerner's for round 1?

[The Mad Hughesy]

14 hours ago, kmcrosby78 said:

Yeah it's actually got me wondering if, given the low-ish participant numbers, we should look at running it over a longer period. One whole week, two weeks or possibly even the whole period between each actual (football) State of Origin games. There are advantages either way, but might include/tempt more people and would give us more of an excuse to go fishing ....  @christophagus - thoughts?  On the flipside doing this may mean people forget about it and don't take the required photos, so maybe if it's not broken, we don't fix it?

im happy to do a full week if everyone else is?

[The Mad Hughesy]

well done team south...Guess the sayings are true

"nice guys finish last"

and "first the worst, second the best"

[Richy]

iTechnically a bit late but this mornings catch at lota, after not understanding the rules with Saturdays catch. And a couple of muddies.

representing  murrarie, recently moved up from the goldy. 

 

 

[Tybo]

Bring on round 2! I tried all weekend to find a window to get out, but was swamped with an assignment due and a new baby. Well done to South, and everyone else that got out and amongst them.

[Old Scaley]

6 hours ago, christophagus said:

im happy to do a full week if everyone else is?

A week is a good idea. It gives access to more people.  Thanks for organising this @christophagus.  These sorts of little things add a lot of interest and activity to the site and this helps feed us afoholics. 

[kmcrosby78]

Yeah a week sounds good to me - offers most a chance to get out but short enough it still feels like an event  

[kmcrosby78]

10 hours ago, Tybo said:

Bring on round 2! I tried all weekend to find a window to get out, but was swamped with an assignment due and a new baby. Well done to South, and everyone else that got out and amongst them.

Congrats on the bub Ty - boy or girl?

[kmcrosby78]

Geez you've got the flathead sussed @Richy   Did you set pots for the muddy or catch it by hand?

[kmcrosby78]

On ‎28‎/‎05‎/‎2017 at 7:45 PM, Doyley said:

  arrggh soo close again.  

 

On ‎28‎/‎05‎/‎2017 at 7:46 PM, Luke Landrunner said:

Yes um well done. 

I thought @Doyley had the longer bream..... A tight 1/2 cm. 

Geez, Northsiders caught short by half a cm again ..........  

[kmcrosby78]

Just now, kmcrosby78 said:

 

Geez, Northsiders caught short by half a cm again ..........  

Actually that's a low blow from me, apologies, I should keep this thread focussed on fishing .........   

BTW @Doyley - on a serious note, nice mixed bag mate

[Fishaman]

Is the next one this weekend? This weekend I can actually fish

[Richy]

Yeah the channel out the front of lota is producing the a lot of 33-38cm flatties. Between Saturday and Monday pulled out 20 odd. Kept two legals on Saturday and the rest went back. 

Had crab pots in, three pots with the two keeper males and plenty of big females that went back