queensland Been A While

[jon]

Been a few months since I’ve put the boat in the water so with some time off work I made the call to do a solo mission, over night out of spb last week. Headed across the bar around dusk and hunted for for some Spanish with no luck. After the sun had set I decided to find a nice spot to anchor for the night and set the lights on the water to gather my live bait for next morning. Got half a tank full of yakkas and three arrow squid so was confident I could convert that to a feed at sunrise. Decided to hit the hay but couldn’t resist leaving a livie out while I napped. Pretty good call as I nailed my PB Jew at 120 cm

 Mornings fishing was tough due to the moon phase and the fact there was  a million boats out there driving over my preferred drift lines but hey what can you do. Ended up with a couple of squire and a few Moses perch for my efforts.

Decided to have another crack  With my mate two days later but this time no over nighter. Got up at birds fart and ran my pots on the way to the bar. Got our bag of small squire in a short period of time but unfortunately nothing with any size about it spent next few hours for some random reefies and then made the call to go and check the pots. All in all was a great weather and a pretty tasty feed too!

 

Edited April 30, 2020 by jon

[ellicat]

Congratulations on your PB. Did you get to sleep before it made you spring into action ?

Shame the bigguns weren't out to play, but a good feed nevertheless.

[jon]

 No lol, truth be told it may have took two rude awakenings from my precious slumber due to pesky grey suits but the third time was a charm. Gotta love being solo and wanting to take a good photo in the boat, but ended up just bleeding it and rocking off to sleep with the slight sense of satisfaction

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Hi jon

Great job on the PB, that is a bloody massive jewie! It doubles my PB, LOL.  How good/long was the fight?

There are some nice snaps and moses as well as the pearlie and cod. Great feed of sandies too.

I dream to be able to catch that many fish one day in the bay, hopefully I'll have a job at 14 then I can buy a small tinny when I'm 16 and start trying to take it out on the bay (probably capsizing or sinking in the process).  

Cheers Hamish

[jon]

Cheers mate, going off your reports you’ll be catching plenty of stonkas in no time. Especially once you have access to a boat. I like reading your reports because many moons ago I started off spending plenty years of brissy river bank fishing hunting sharks, threadfin and  bream-too!

Edited April 30, 2020 by jon

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

4 minutes ago, jon said:

Cheers mate, going off your reports you’ll be catching plenty of stonkas in no time

Hey jon

Thanks for that, I hope so!  We might be going to the Fisherman's Island area if my Dad has finished work by Saturday and Sunday, so now I'm feeling inclined to putting pots out to try my luck. I suppose it'd be pretty easy for someone to nick them though... (We are going to test out the sounder on the kayak). 

Cheers Hamish  

[jon]

Yeah port can be real bad for pot tampering. The first green marker just out from the ramp is a good place to drop one for the odd sandy. A fair hike in a kayak but straight out and head right to the other side there is a few creeks and drains that will get muddies if pots are left a few metres back from the mouths. Beware if you see some pro pots in the water as I’m not sure if he still works this area but the dirty dog has a habbit of checking recko pots and slashing them rendering them useless. Good luck

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Hi jon

Righto, thanks a lot for the tip. If I see pro pots I'll make sure to keep an eye on mine, but saying this he could probably out run us with an engine. I'll just get him on film if I see them tampering with mine, and then get him busted! (hopefully)  Thanks for the spots to, we'd be absolutely clueless otherwise.

Cheers Hamish

[kmcrosby78]

Couple of fruitful sessions there Sef, congrats on a thumping jewie, well done!

[benno573]

Nice one mate. Few good feeds in that one fish!

[jon]

On 30/04/2020 at 6:49 PM, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Hi jon

Righto, thanks a lot for the tip. If I see pro pots I'll make sure to keep an eye on mine, but saying this he could probably out run us with an engine. I'll just get him on film if I see them tampering with mine, and then get him busted! (hopefully)  Thanks for the spots to, we'd be absolutely clueless otherwise.

Cheers Hamish

No one should touch them if your around and in sight, it’s more so if you leave them unattended over night

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

50 minutes ago, jon said:

No one should touch them if your around and in sight, it’s more so if you leave them unattended over night

Hey jon

Alright, thanks for the tip. If we do end up going out (my dad might be to busy with work, but I hope not) I'll make sure I keep the pots in sight.

Cheers Hamish