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rayke1938

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  1. NPD area 3 this morning with glass out that turned into drizzling rain and then fining up. Fish were scattered being located on fad 4 , the floats , the tip of the island and on the drop off near fad 0. 39 bass,one lone yella and 25 southern strain of large mouth barra between 20cm and 57cm. The big ones certainly give you a work out. We could have caught a lot more but Neil objected to them grunting at him. Did out shrimp pots on the way back and disappointed to find most of them empty. Few other boats out so hopefully will see their reports. Some of the photos bit iffy as lens of camera got wet in the rain.
  2. They even talk to you. NPD today. Several captured.
  3. Hinze western arm 7/3/24. Extremely slow day at the western arm today. Plenty of shags roosting on Ians island. After doing shrimp traps we went upstream and could not find a fish in our usual spots. We went up as far as the barrage for 3 isolated bass with largest 37cm and one barred grunter for the eagle that followed us all morning.
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  5. Donuts at western arm this morning. Neils wife packed some chocolate ones so we did not miss out. Shrimp were extremely scarce with a lot of pots empty and only a few had shrimp in them. As a result we had ran out of bait by 9am, 17 bass one tandan ,one eel and only 2 barred grunter for a hungry eagle.
  6. Upstream ? We went downstream a little and water appeared clearer maybe we should have gone to Queen street. Hinze western arm on thursday .
  7. Donut again at Somerset with Rick and Joy, Launched at kirklea went as far as powerlines with live shrimp. Donut result enjoyed pies at Fernvale,
  8. Brian any prawns around islands
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    No Donut,

    Went to NPD this morning/ At least we did better than our disastrous donut trip to the Hinze eastern arm on thursday. Took us 6 hours before the only 29cm bass was boated. 27 forkies kept us entertained prior. Forkies up to 55cm. Quite surprised how clear the water is and very little debris. I fully expected that our shrimp pots would have been swept away but they were all there.
  10. From Ausfish We NEED YOUR SUPPORT once again to have the Mary River and its tributaries Declared a new NET FREE ZONE above the Great Sandy Marine Park boundary ( approx. Beaver Rock upstream ). Please sign this e-petition sponsored by Maryborough's local member Bruce Saunders and share it with all your like-minded family and friends - we NEED 10,000+ signatures from within Qld for this to be tabled in parliament - and this is an election year Sign here :- https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Wo...etails?id=4021 Thanks Scotto
  11. Donut day for 3 of us today at western arm. 6 hours with live shrimp and not even a barred grunter. We did get a wet bum and some windburn.
  12. Four of went to zone 3 to see if we could find some bass on live shrimp. Spent a bit of time foraging for lost shrimp pots that had been displaced in the recent rise. Only one one 17cm bass located at the floats with 29 to 30 cm forkies at every location. We found a school of larger ones in between the 2 islands with quadruple hook ups of 50cm forkies making things interesting. I did not keep a tally but a constative estimate of 60 forkies made,
  13. Another slow day at the eastern arm this morning. We were able to recover our shrimp pots that were submerged when the dam rose, Most of the the shrimp in them were dead and stunk the boat out but we still got enough to have a fish. We initially went upstream but could not find a fish on the sounder so we went downstream and managed to catch 14 bass and 2 tandans. The fish were scattered and between 14 and 30 feet and the only plus hardly any barred grunter to steal our sparse shrimp. Very large flock of shags just seemed to be resting on the water when we were on way back to ramp,
  14. Woke up 2.30 and poked my nose outside and there was a light sprinkle and a bit of lightening out to sea. The radar at NPD didnt look too bad but by the time I had a cuppa I was having a fair bit of pain from my hernia and it was starting to rain heavily so I made a couple of calls to my deckies and called it off and I had a couple of painkillers and went back to bed.
  15. Did not take any photos and forgot about the comp. Had a bit of a drama when I launched. I deployed my ulterra and looked at my remote and saw that all the i pilot was in spanish ( needed Ted ). Finally worked out the basics and got going but a few dramas trying to navigate and stowing the motor instead of turning right . Good thing Joy has quick reflexes and could duck quickly. When I got home dug out the manual which told me how to restore it to english but as all the buttons on the remote were in spanish I then had to work out the english equivalent of the spanish words.
  16. Quantity but no quality at the eastern arm. After doing our shrimp pots and raising the ropes a few feet in anticipation of the dam rising we went exploring. We found a small school of under 30cm bass around one tree and pulled 10 fish until the barred grunter moved in, We did not find any more fish until well above bass bay where we found more under sized bass with the odd larger one mixed in with them. We ran out of shrimp by 11 am with a total of 49 bass between the 3 of us with the best bass going 41cm.
  17. Bit slow today at eastern arm. Could not find quite a few of our new pots that we deployed a fortnight ago as they are now under water. The ones we located were reasonably full but the ones in deeper water the shrimp were all dead. Ended up with 26 bass from different locations but some locations hard to find with the high water levels and marks submerged. Water is a bit murky with all the fresh with visibility around 2 to 3 feet, Best bass 46cm rest varied from 18cm upwards. One spot we thought we were being hit by barred grunter but turned out a school of 18cm bass that we moved on from. Hai had left his rods at home but fortunately he had a 3ft ice rod stashed in the boot and it was interesting watching him land a 45cm bass on it as it was spooled with 3lb mono.
  18. Went back to NPD for the first time for a couple of weeks to see if the fishing has improved. The shrimp traps were mainly chocka except a few that have rusted out. Found a few forkies at the second rock wall so we quickly departed that location. Could not find a fish over the next 2 hours until we found a school on 20 feet of water near fad 0.We quickly pulled 13 bass there until the school moved on to parts unknown. Fish were between 32 and 20cm. I got that excited to actually catch some fish I forgot to tag them. I have just replaced my 24 volt 285 a/h agm batteries for my minnkota bow mount with a pair of 135 a/h lithiums. I was a bit dubious as how they would go as I was told not to run my older kota over 8.5 speed to avoid burn out problems with the armature. I am very pleased with the performance as I have picked up 1/2 a KPH and at the end of the day both batterys indicating they still have 80% capacity
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