rayke1938

Knitting needles are what old blokes call them.

Western arm again this morning with Rick and Joy. Bit brisk until the sneaky westerly dropped off around 9am. We are still having problems doing the shrimp traps with the falling water levels getting hung up on submerged logs. The fish were not plentiful but a good size up to 45cm. We ended up with a tally of 34 bass and the eagle had a good feed of banded grunter, Hope the water cools quickly and slows down the grunter

Started off looking a bit grim with wind and rain when I left home at 4.15 but I had faith in BOM and it turned out to be a cracker of a day after 9 am when the sun came out and it started to warm up a bit. Bass were elusive at first with us only boating 10 bass and 18 forkies by 10am. I started to slowly move around the main basin and pulling up on any shows on the sounder only to discover more forkies until we struck gold over towards the original far marker. Between 10 am and midday when we knocked off we boated 73 bass from the one school. See fad 5 has re emerged but the one opposite the fig tree seems to be gone. If you study the photos a couple of clues to location but who knows how long the school will hold there. Hai was timing how long it took to catch a fish. 26 seconds on the video between the bait hitting the water and boating the bass. 343472611_6129764827115123_8940452003882799548_n.mp4

Go local wilson or gary howard.

Until I was 14 it was my job to get up, light the wood stove and milk the cow. Never had powdered milk and when we got rid of the cow due to urbanisation never drank straight milk again.

Had a good day at the western arm despite some rain. I can report that my rain jacket did a fantastic job of absorbing every drop that fell on it. Will have to proof it when it dries out. Had a few heavy showers and a nice rainbow but no pot of gold. There were plenty of small bass at first until we found some better quality bass between 38 and 45 cm. Watched a toga trying to catch what looked like a small barred grunter with both fish leaping out of the water about 6 times before the toga finally caught the fish mid leap. Finished up with over 50 bass and donated a good feed of barred grunter to the eagle

Suggest you talk to someone with mercruiser experience. Michael at Coorparoo marine may be able to help his father used to do a lot of work on mercruisers.

Dam level dropped about 6 feet.

After 5 weeks we finally got back to the Hinze western arm for a rather breezy day. We spent a lot of time recovering shrimp pots with a lot of them high and dry on the bank with the ropes tied off 12 feet in the air. Took us nearly 3 hours to do 12 pots. It was impossible to fish quite a few of our normal spots due to the wind and waves making it very uncomfortable. The eagles enjoyed our trip feasting on numerous barred grunter. Bass were a bit scarce . Final tally was 42 bass and we did not count the barred grunter. As normal Joy and Mark who were in the bow outfished Rick and Myself.

Still not real fit when a 30cm bass gives you curry.

Finally got back on the water after a bit of a layoff. Had Rick and Joy to help me wind in the biguns. Shrimp were a bit scarce with small redclaw outnumbering the shrimp. We found a few fish on the point opposite the old fridge but we left looking for larger ones. There were plenty of schools on the sounder but they all turned out to be hungry forkies.Not a thing on the floats but we found a school of small bass on the tip of the island. We tried a few spots between the islands that were productive 3 weeks ago but not even a forky there. We ended up with 35 bass between 18 and 37cm and 15 forkies. Seq water were doing a burn off behind the sailing club.

they did not know it was me as it only took one small crow to start it off.

Thanks for kind words. Coming good it has been a bit of a rugged week. 6 hours waiting for ambo. merry go round between 3 hospitals, 4 days in ICU. Care levels from Ambos and in hospitals incredible. Bit like putting your car in for a service now have heart murmur, hardened arteries and half one lung not working to be followed up on. Hats off to the nurses at Redlands, Mater and QE2 you are doing an incredible job and still smile every day.

As a kid if I woke in the middle of the night I would crow like a rooster and set off all the other neighbourhood roosters and the occasional dog in the area. Worse thing was when the occasional fox got in the mongrel things would kill every chook just for the sake of killing.

The freshwater SIPS scheme is a shining example on how a permit scheme should be applied. There are a couple of niggles in it but in the main it works really well and I would fully support something similar in the salt. The hardest part would be working out an interaction with the pro fishers,

The old pile light?

How did you go?

Bit wet this morning but we persevered under our umbrellas and did our shrimp traps and headed off down towards the floats. It stopped raining half way just as Hais umbrella collapsed. It took about 10 minutes for the bilge pump to clear all the rain water from the hull. When we arrived at the floats all we could catch was 20cm bass which was good for our tagging numbers but we were after something more substantial so off to where the fish have been holding between the islands. No big schools and we moved about 5 times just locating the fish on the sounder. Final tally was one forky,one yella,6 tandanus and 44 bass for a midday knock off. Hai was not too happy about the forky which gave him a bit of curry and when he went to rebait his reel fell into pieces.

I had originally planned on going to the Boaties Market and then have a fish at NPD but on reflection I thought if I was late at the dam I would miss out on one of the good parking spots and would have a long walk up the hill so I rocked up at the gate at 5.20 to meet Craig and it turned out I made the correct decision and possibly saved money by not buying gear that I do not need. After doing our shrimp pots ( Couple of them had dead shrimp and redclaw in them and they were in 10ft of water) we headed down to the floats where we did not stay long as only 20cm bass and smaller forkies stealing our precious shrimp. Next stop was between the islands in roughly the same spot as last time. ( Between the 2 stumps) We moved a couple of times when the fish went off the chew but only around 40 or so feet. Ended up with 70 bass ,2 tandans and around 14 forkies with a few rod busters in amongst them. Can someone please explain why people in the bow always outfish the stern fishos. Last trip Joy outfished everyone else and today Craig was in the gun spot.

Hamish check your messages cheers ray

Found some better fish today. Plenty of fish showing on the sounder as soon as we left the ramp bay but they were all forkies between 10 and 50cm. Couple of spangled perch and more forkies at the floats so we went between the islands for around 30 bass with about 10 of them under. They went off the chew around 10 am and we stopped at the floats on the way back for a good sized yella. Few signs of pigs down Koala straight. The eagle had a bit of a problem with one of the forkies as it was too big for it to lift so it waited till the wind blew it to the bank and dragged it up the bank before it spent over an hour demolishing it.

Hardly anyone fishing today must have been something else on. I went straight to the floats for 2 forkies and 2 spanglies and lost quite a few shrimp to the small forkies so I moved between the islands and found bass in 2 different spots both in 16 feet of water. No size to the bass so I had a little explore in a few old spots for zilch. Arrived back at the floats around 10am for a last look before knocking off and the sounder lit up so i stayed till midday and the final tally was 58 bass, one tandan, 2 spanglies and 2 forkies '. All fish released with varying degree of care.

Quite a few over the years, on the road in , near the gate , a couple had a roo bailed up in the water on the edge of the dam and next day roo floating in the water.

Short post and no photos. 3 or us went to western arm on Thursday morning launched at 6am by 10 am we had only caught 5 bass all under 30cm in our usual spots so we went exploring and lucked on a school that was in tight to a submerged bush where we increased the tally to 32 bass and 3 tandans. Stew who was in the bow caught the majority of the bass.

SEQ water has a regular 1080 programme around quite a few of their dams and a lot of councils will give the baits free. Quite a rigorous process to use 1080 to prevent bycatch.