queensland Hinze 8/10/08

[rayke1938]

Launched at Western Arm with John Ford at 5am.THe track in has been graded.

Ramp is very ordinary you have the choice of jackknifing trailer and launching off steep bank or launching into 4 inches of water over 4 inches of mud. I made the mistake of the shallow option and had to straighten the transducer on its bracket.

Fished till 1200 for 8 legal bass and a tandanus around 50cm. One bas that was bleeding from gills was kept everything else released.

Nothing on lures or spinnerbaits.

Plenty of fish on sounder but they were not hungry.I caught all the fish in the one spot in 22ft of water.John didnt get a touch. Dunno why he didn't smile all day and just kept on saying sh!t.

Wind was all over the place varying from east to west up to 15k then dead calm.

Sorry no photos.

There was one other boat out and he went all the way down to Ians Island and didn't get one hit using lures and sps.

Cheers

Ray

[Death Ray]

Thanks Ray,

I was thinking of going out there this afternoon. Maybe I'll wait till the weekend.

Cheers

[rayke1938]

Apparently there is new ramp at eastern arm with a good parking area. Turn off is at top of hill.

Cheers

Ray

[Aaron H]

It is excellent at the moment but drops off steeply so when water drops could be interesting, but it has plenty of parking room compared to the old water tower ramp

[Rocket75]

Bring on some heat so the bass start firing on the lures!

Funny how you can both be using the same bait and get such different results.

Thanks for the ramp update, I'm keen to get down there soon.

Rocket

[Dinodadog]

well done getting the 8 on bait, I got a grand tally of 1 at NPD plus another snake up at the forgans end

[Brian D]

You only take John to show off cause he never catches fish :woohoo:

I only say this cause he never views the site:blush: