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[rayke1938]

We launched at 6am and checked shrimp traps and commenced searching for some bass. Pretty barren first off with the odd bass and forky as we headed downstream. We found fad number 2 up on the bank and recovered it so it could be repaired and relocated. The ring on the bottom had completed rusted away so it may be a good idea to check the other fads. I noted  that the fad was missing a couple of weeks ago and am surprised that it was not found previously. Around 9 oclock we found a school that was quite productive and we finished up with a tally of 108 bass and 8 forkys and back at the ramp by midday where we left the fad and a bunch of emptys that would not fit in the recycle bin. Not many photos as we were too busy catching fish. Tally would have been a lot higher but we were tagging which takes up a fair bit of time. There was quite a few fish undersize and looking at my tag records aprox 70% of the bass were over 30cm with the largest 46cm.

[Dinodadog]

Good to see them coming back.

[Junky]

Good day. 

Still surprises me that you get 108 fish by lunch. 

360 minutes / 108. 

1 fish, every 3 minutes. 

That includes reeling it in and rebaiting. 

You must look like those tuna pole fishing boats, just throwing bass on the deck everywhere. 

 

 

Oh, and you have a drinking problem. That's a big bag of cans for 6hrs work....

Your blood sugars must be off the chart. 

PS. I know what you meant.

 

Cheers 

Damo. 

[Bretto77]

Tagging Forky's even ... or was it just a little scone massage before sending them back

[Angry51]

Looks like a softening up was the idea Brett.

[Bretto77]

35 minutes ago, Angry51 said:

Looks like a softening up was the idea Brett.

Tenderised for the benefit of others???

[rayke1938]

We give them a little kiss with either a hammer or a blessing with a bit of steel.

[Bretto77]

1 minute ago, rayke1938 said:

We give them a little kiss with either a hammer or a blessing with a bit of steel.

Bless you

[Neil Stratford]

Good to see you getting some good numbers out of NPD again.
 The individual fish icons  with accompanying  numbers  on the smaller hummingbird appears to be depths that they are sitting at.

My Furuno comes with a mode called , accufish ,  this measures the length of individual fish and shows a similar display. 
Does Hummingbird come with a mode that displays lengths instead of depths? If it does , it might help at Hinze to sort the bass from the barred grunter.

Well done . 

 

Regards 

Neil

[rayke1938]

only depths as far as i am aware.

[kmcrosby78]

Great session Ray and well done for returning the FAD and all those cans.

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Great session Ray. 

[Rebel]

Top report.

Great photos.

Well done.

[Doughnuts]

Nice work on the cricket score Ray.

None of the birds have a mode to measure the length of the fish.