Moreton Bay weather for Saturday 25 June 2022 - Mint

[Hweebe]

It's mid week....time to get interested in the weather forecast for the weekend of boating / fishing.

Check out all the green . Saturday sunrise and high tide coinciding at around 6:30am. Ideal for an early run to spot X.

Expecting some mint conditions and lots of boats out with all my weekend warrior friends.

Mid week fishos/retirees need not attend (given all the great mid week weather) or risk some boat ramp madness.

 

Nice morning westerly (only slightly blowing against the incoming tide). Expecting a comfortable morning cruise out with the tail wind behind me.

 

Hardly a South-Easterly for the arvo run home with the breeze dropping off further compared to the morning.

Expecting mint arvo conditions. Might anchor up for a nice lunch / afternoon tea on the water after a days fishing.

 

 

[Old Scaley]

Hope the weather holds for all you taxpayers. I haven’t had a chance to get out this week so hoping that the weather can hold into next week. Good luck @Hweebeand anyone else who can get out this weekend. Deep breathing may be required at the ramp.

[STKE]

Hardest part is going to be deciding where to fish. 

[Hweebe]

4 minutes ago, STKE said:

Hardest part is going to be deciding where to fish. 

I dare say with the westerly in the morning there will be some more boats venturing out and around the cape, where there should be good cover until the wind changes direction.

Will be a good day to try wider.....except with fuel at $2.20+ hope everyone is fuelled up already.

[Angry51]

2 hours ago, Hweebe said:

....except with fuel at $2.20+ hope everyone is fuelled up already.

Went to town today and paid $2.32 litre for diesel.

Some places $2.39 litre.

[Ed.]

I filled up mine today and paid $2.26/L for Shell Premium at Pialba.

81L later, I am going to have to ask the bank for a loan!

Ampol was $2.32/L

[Another Wazza]

Saturday is looking mighty fine @Hweebe, and I reckon your spot on about the amount of boats that’ll be heading out.

Fuel is definitely out of control at the moment, I paid the princely sum of $27 to go fishing today, not to mention the bag of ice to keep my drinks cool, Hahahaha, the thought of fuelling up a big rig sends shivers down me.

[Angry51]

35 minutes ago, Ed. said:

I filled up mine today and paid $2.26/L for Shell Premium at Pialba.

81L later, I am going to have to ask the bank for a loan!

Ampol was $2.32/L

Seen on TV that if you steal a set of # plates you can just slip

them over your plates and do drive offs when you fuel up.

Might have to do a trip to" midnight spares"  to get a set.

Fuel prices aren't pensioner friendly. We do 190 klms to go shopping.

[ellicat]

The Bay has been special for a week now and it's looking good until next Tuesday. Have a good one @Hweebe.

[Ed.]

3 hours ago, Angry51 said:

Fuel prices aren't pensioner friendly. We do 190 klms to go shopping.

Your way up North aren't you?

[Angry51]

Yeah Ed, go shopping Charters Towers.

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Good luck Hweebe, I hope you can manage some nice fish!

[Ed.]

7 hours ago, Angry51 said:

Yeah Ed, go shopping Charters Towers.

Have you thought about getting off acreage and moving towards the coast and closer to a large town, plenty of places where you can get a 1/2 to 1 acre block, milder temperature and more infrastructure?

[Angry51]

12 minutes ago, Ed. said:

Have you thought about getting off acreage and moving towards the coast and closer to a large town, plenty of places where you can get a 1/2 to 1 acre block, milder temperature and more infrastructure?

NO. Very happy and content here with our cows and chooks.

We're 6 klms out of Ravenswood so we don't have traffic noise and neighbour problems.

Ann would never move and we don't

 worry about doctors/hospitals as we

are serviced by the RFDS. ( Flying doctors ).

[Ed.]

Fair enough! Will have to visit if we ever come up your way to do some gold fossicking.

[Angry51]

Yeah, give us a yell.

Dont think there is much lying on top of the ground

anymore.

The mine here is open cut, biggest gold mine in QLD.

We have just sold a mine lease to this mob here, so they'll be mining here for another 20 years.

[Ed.]

Thanks will do.

[Drop Bear]

On 22/06/2022 at 10:31 AM, Old Scaley said:

Deep breathing may be required at the ramp.

haha yep. I will be launching from Amity on Saturday so won't be a problem.

 

[Drop Bear]

Perhaps an offshore trip is in order. hmmmm

[Angry51]

8 minutes ago, Drop Bear said:

haha yep. I will be launching from Amity on Saturday so won't be a problem.

 

Amity is between Mingela and Woodstock  and there wont be much water there on Saturday

or any other day.

Hang on I've got the wrong end of the state.

[jon]

Might head out tomorrow before all the weekend crowds get in on the action

 a report to come

[Hweebe]

Update from Saturday - Grinners Galore 

Aim was to water test the boat after all the major maintenance i had done and get onto some winter whiting.

The night before doing some final pre-checks / loading the boat I found my Inshore flares well and truly out of date - That put a stop to the 1st light launch.

Tip 1 - Check your flares or have a sticker / note on your dash with Flare expiry dates

Quick search online and earliest place open (6am) with sales of flares was Manly Coast Guard for a very reasonable $70. BCF was the next option but opening time was 7am - $79.99

Launched from Manly boat ramp - around 6:20am - probably an hour after i would have liked if the flares were not an issue.

Car park was starting to fill up but still plenty of space and almost no queue to the ramp - Maybe it was a bit too cold??

Cruised past Harry's, looked like there were a few overnighters

 

Thon onto fish Rous (coastguard tip) and then onto Fishermen's gutter drifting all the usual whiting patches I've had success before.

Bait of choice was a mixture of squid / pippie / prawn pre-cut the night before into hook sized slithers.

No matter where i fished, or what bait we tried it was grinner after grinner in places we had good success for whiting.

After collecting 10 for the vegie patch we threw the rest back. We fished until about lunch time before heading back early. Probably hooked about 30 grinners in the session. Plague proportions. 1 solitary whiting was collected and promptly shallow fried as a snack before actual dinner  

Thinking next trip will be mud / green and 6 hours in the one spot like @Allnighter

 

[ellicat]

Cheaper than fertiliser, but what a pain in the butt. So were there a lot of grinners at Fisherman's Gutter as well as the Rous ? I was thinking of hitting it up during the Snapper closure.

[kmcrosby78]

Crikey, even Steve aka 'Grinner King'  @Old Scaley would be happy with that haul ........  Shame the whiting weren't more plentiful for you. Many boats chasing them?

[jon]

Got out on Friday and then a again on Sunday mixed bag of reefies from boat rock on both days. Plus a few squid in the bay on the way home.Sunday was hard going due to the amount of boats deciding to drift close enough to shake hands to where we were anchored every time. Pulled hooks on a good mackerel near the boat due to no gaff but was good to get out again it’s been ages.

[benno573]

nice @jon.  few good feeds, some decent sized squid and a bit of fun on the toooona as well.  what is the red fish that is not a moses perch in the first photo? black tip rock cod?

[ellicat]

Good to see you got out. Looks like a scrumptious box.

[Drop Bear]

Went out Yesterday. 10 knots southerly turned into 10 knots Westerly. 

We fished some coffee rocks around Moreton about 6 miles north of the bar. 

Plenty of livies but only one hit on them from one Mackerel. 

I caught 2 slateys and a few bonnies but didn't get any photos sorry. 

Nice day out and great to get offshore again. looks like I should have gone to Boat Rock... 

[Angry51]

5 minutes ago, Drop Bear said:

 but didn't get any photos sorry. 

Didn't happen MATEEE!!!!!!!

[Hweebe]

18 hours ago, ellicat said:

So were there a lot of grinners at Fisherman's Gutter as well as the Rous ?

More Grinners at Fisherman's than Rous, but this may change by Snapper closure season in my experience.

[Hweebe]

14 hours ago, kmcrosby78 said:

Shame the whiting weren't more plentiful for you. Many boats chasing them?

There were about 10-15 boats drifting around rous and fishermans and about 10 anchored up in Rous itself.

The tell was the boats were not tending to congregate and constantly moving to find new drift lines in search of the whiting - so not so much luck all round

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Good work @jon!

[Drop Bear]

3 hours ago, Angry51 said:

Didn't happen MATEEE!!!!!!!

Ok I asked for that one haha. 

[Junky]

5 hours ago, Drop Bear said:

Went out Yesterday. 10 knots southerly turned into 10 knots Westerly. 

We fished some coffee rocks around Moreton about 6 miles north of the bar. 

Plenty of livies but only one hit on them from one Mackerel. 

I caught 2 slateys and a few bonnies but didn't get any photos sorry. 

Nice day out and great to get offshore again. looks like I should have gone to Boat Rock... 

Go out and try that Mark I gave you mate. 

Sounds like you were in that sort of area. 

[kmcrosby78]

9 hours ago, benno573 said:

what is the red fish that is not a moses perch in the first photo? black tip rock cod?

I was going to ask the same thing. Couple of nice hauls of tasty fish there @jon, you'll be eating well .

[jon]

10 hours ago, benno573 said:

nice @jon.  few good feeds, some decent sized squid and a bit of fun on the toooona as well.  what is the red fish that is not a moses perch in the first photo? black tip rock cod?

Gday Benno, tbh I was never really sure what to call these ones . Catch them all the time but they are always sub 20cm. This one was pushing 40 . Fisheries reckons they are  called chinaman rock cod. No size limit but 4.5 stars eating.

[Ed.]

Don't think it is a Chinaman rock cod, had a quick look online and most of the images that come up show them as having vertical orangery / brownish wide bands on the body, that one looks a bit like one of the wrasse family to me.

[jon]

On 28/06/2022 at 9:02 AM, benno573 said:

4 hours ago, Ed. said:

Don't think it is a Chinaman rock cod, had a quick look online and most of the images that come up show them as having vertical orangery / brownish wide bands on the body, that one looks a bit like one of the wrasse family to me.

They come in all different colours depending On What part of Australia

 

but don’t think it’s part of the wrasse family they go by many other names to like what Benno said ie black tip 

[Ed.]

Yep, it does make it a bit harder to identify when they are different colours, just couldn't see any of the bands on that one.