queensland Family Mixed Bag Sun 26/4

[kmcrosby78]

We decided to take advantage of the fantastic weather on Sunday and join half of Brisbane out on Moreton Bay ........ wife and kids luckily got to the north ramp at Manly Harbour first and rang me while I was on my way to inform me it was overflowing, so luckily there were some spare trailer parks (that weren't taken up by cars without trailers ........) at the south ramp so we were all good. Was my first run with the new Suzuki DF100B engine so good to start running it in.

Set anchor and got the teams lines in and Liam had an undersized grassie in the boat in no time. I started working on filling the scaling bag with berley (a bit of an assortment) and once it was deployed and shaken a few times I exclaimed that I reckoned the action would soon pick up - about 5 seconds later I had a run on my baitrunner and brought in a legal grassie, so one keeper in the esky . Things went quiet during the tide change (I was hoping to be there earlier ....) with just rat squire coming in, but as the tide started to turn the action picked up again with a couple of flounder caught (one kept), Liam got a keeper bream and also a legal tusky as well as an undersized tusky (geez they play up once netted - feisty buggers .....).

George (5 years old) early on in the session decided today was the day he started baiting his own hooks and to his credit he continued the whole session, specialising (and requesting ...) with the head half of the bait, threading the hook through the eye of the bait and then in his own fashion securing the hook back into the bait. Not the best presented baits, which detracted from his hookup rate, but very proud of him for giving it a go. Liam quite a few times offered for George to reel his fish in and when he wasn't doing that, he did a great job at netting fish so everyone was kept busy . I will have to start getting better of getting action shots of the boys as I'm afraid I've only got a 'kill shot' of dead fish again - they'll turn into a yummy mixed feed of fish though  

We set one crab pot (was meant to be two but I again forgot the uprights for my larger pro pot ...) in about 6.5m of water but no reward. Very busy back at the ramp but luckily the crowd was reasonably well behaved and we were out of the water in about 15 mins so not too bad. One guy after me seemingly forgot to trim/tilt his motor up prior to trailering it and it was horribly close to the bitumen .....  Thanks for reading.

[ellicat]

It won't be long and the boys will be men and taking YOU fishing. Enjoy it while you can.

Not a bad feed. Does Liam get first dibs on which one he gets ? haha

[ellicat]

PS

How'd the new motor go ?

[kmcrosby78]

42 minutes ago, ellicat said:

It won't be long and the boys will be men and taking YOU fishing. Enjoy it while you can.

Not a bad feed. Does Liam get first dibs on which one he gets ? haha

Yep, I'm starting to realise that Brian  I just hope they still want to fish with me when they are in their 20's. Liam is pretty keen on getting stuck into the tusky - was meant to be tonight but time got away so tomorrow night .

41 minutes ago, ellicat said:

PS

How'd the new motor go ?

Only nursing it at this stage during the break in period but good, nice and quiet. 

[ellicat]

My old man is 85 and I bait his hooks and sometimes cast out for him. He says it was only like yesterday he was doing it for me.

Remember to get some pics of them fishing next time.

[Old Scaley]

Nice little mixed bag there @kmcrosby78. 

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Hi kmcrosby78

That's a great mixed bag there, they all look very tasty. Pity there were no crabs, but that is still a good haul.  

I take my Dad fishing now, he loves the fact that I haven't stole one of his fish for a while...  

Cheers Hamish

[benno573]

Liam knows a good thing when he sees it - i’d go straight for the tusky as well and then debate about whether to go the flounder or grassy next.

 

cracker day out on the water mate. Weather was off the scale good, quality time with the offspring and a few fish to boot. Living large!