ellicat

Well done @ellicatand @Old Scaley.
cracking trip in the back yard. Especially considering all the rain we have had. 
Toooonnnaaaaa!!! one day brother. 

Michelle says I'm too old to be backing up for two days in a row. haha
We'll get there again next opportunity.
Steve's was the 48 Maori and mine was a 42 grassie. Dropped a couple of better fish too (again !). Water was still a bit murky but better than a fortnight or so ago.

Got up early today and picked up @Old Scaley for the journey up to Bongaree boat ramp. Headed up the eastern side of Bribie and stopped at a mark for some livies, but nothing showing so motored on and discovered there were a LOT of tuna bustups going on around us.
Steve rigged a spoon and launched it into the pack. A couple of winds and he was on. Woohoo. Good start. About 10 minutes into the fight he lost it and the spoon... maybe sharked (as it became a dead weight and then nothing) ?? We tried a few more schools without any luck. Never mind, Steve was happy to have had some fun.
We arrived at the spot we were going to bottom bash at. A few lancers were landed and strip baited, only to catch more lancers. I think Steve landed this tuskie before we decided to shift spots.

 
Next spot there were more lancers and whiptails pickering us. Rather than pulling anchor I decided to just let out more rope and drift until we were fishing in a different spot. It was quiet and I was pondering a shift again when a nice 34cm grassie jumped on. Then Steve and I both managed to catch grassies, tuskies, squire and Maori cod. Some were unders but we managed to put a good feed together by the time we decided to pack it in. We also dropped some goodun's.
Steve's nice 48cm Maori.

The feed.

 
On the way back to the ramp we came across more tuna bustups but they were pretty flighty. Eventually we cruised into a school and Steve hooked up once again. A few blistering runs and Steve was getting some line back. We were both thinking this could be the bay tuna that has eluded him for many years.
Unfortunately it wasn't to be, with the treble hooks pulling. We continued to chase them for awhile as well as trolling a 6 metre diver. No success, so we put the throttle down on what was a pretty smooth bay, and made it to the ramp an hour or so later than we planned.
I'll put up some footage of Steve's screaming reel later.
 

Thanks @Nog. I was thinking I might go a bit heavier next time to get them to the boat faster.  Love that first run!

Sharks on Tuna are pretty common these days along Bribie...and elsewhere.  Trick is to fight them hard and get them in early.  Easy saying that of course 🙂
 

Nice session fellas with some tasty varieties there - yum!  I took my boys and Dad out yesterday arvo at Green Island - lots of schools of hardyheads flicking on the surface. Quiet on the fishing front with the wind (hardly any) just enough to push us back towards the island against what was an almost non-existent current which made it slightly harder.
 
Decided to stay til dark and caught a couple of sharks (Liam fought one well) so at least something for the esky. Oh and I also caught an extremely large sand crab on my line 😎. 
Magic arvo on the water (first time since school went back), was a glass out at times. Water was a murky green but better than I expected given we fished the last of the outgoing tide. Would like to have arrived earlier but had our horse (we own one eyelash …. 🤪) run a credible 6th) at Doomben.

This IS a fishing forum Brian!!!!!!!!🤣

Michelle says I'm too old to be backing up for two days in a row. haha
We'll get there again next opportunity.
Steve's was the 48 Maori and mine was a 42 grassie. Dropped a couple of better fish too (again !). Water was still a bit murky but better than a fortnight or so ago.

Nice going. I reckon it's 130+

Michelle says I'm too old to be backing up for two days in a row. haha
We'll get there again next opportunity.
Steve's was the 48 Maori and mine was a 42 grassie. Dropped a couple of better fish too (again !). Water was still a bit murky but better than a fortnight or so ago.

Got up early today and picked up @Old Scaley for the journey up to Bongaree boat ramp. Headed up the eastern side of Bribie and stopped at a mark for some livies, but nothing showing so motored on and discovered there were a LOT of tuna bustups going on around us.
Steve rigged a spoon and launched it into the pack. A couple of winds and he was on. Woohoo. Good start. About 10 minutes into the fight he lost it and the spoon... maybe sharked (as it became a dead weight and then nothing) ?? We tried a few more schools without any luck. Never mind, Steve was happy to have had some fun.
We arrived at the spot we were going to bottom bash at. A few lancers were landed and strip baited, only to catch more lancers. I think Steve landed this tuskie before we decided to shift spots.

 
Next spot there were more lancers and whiptails pickering us. Rather than pulling anchor I decided to just let out more rope and drift until we were fishing in a different spot. It was quiet and I was pondering a shift again when a nice 34cm grassie jumped on. Then Steve and I both managed to catch grassies, tuskies, squire and Maori cod. Some were unders but we managed to put a good feed together by the time we decided to pack it in. We also dropped some goodun's.
Steve's nice 48cm Maori.

The feed.

 
On the way back to the ramp we came across more tuna bustups but they were pretty flighty. Eventually we cruised into a school and Steve hooked up once again. A few blistering runs and Steve was getting some line back. We were both thinking this could be the bay tuna that has eluded him for many years.
Unfortunately it wasn't to be, with the treble hooks pulling. We continued to chase them for awhile as well as trolling a 6 metre diver. No success, so we put the throttle down on what was a pretty smooth bay, and made it to the ramp an hour or so later than we planned.
I'll put up some footage of Steve's screaming reel later.
 

Got up early today and picked up @Old Scaley for the journey up to Bongaree boat ramp. Headed up the eastern side of Bribie and stopped at a mark for some livies, but nothing showing so motored on and discovered there were a LOT of tuna bustups going on around us.
Steve rigged a spoon and launched it into the pack. A couple of winds and he was on. Woohoo. Good start. About 10 minutes into the fight he lost it and the spoon... maybe sharked (as it became a dead weight and then nothing) ?? We tried a few more schools without any luck. Never mind, Steve was happy to have had some fun.
We arrived at the spot we were going to bottom bash at. A few lancers were landed and strip baited, only to catch more lancers. I think Steve landed this tuskie before we decided to shift spots.

 
Next spot there were more lancers and whiptails pickering us. Rather than pulling anchor I decided to just let out more rope and drift until we were fishing in a different spot. It was quiet and I was pondering a shift again when a nice 34cm grassie jumped on. Then Steve and I both managed to catch grassies, tuskies, squire and Maori cod. Some were unders but we managed to put a good feed together by the time we decided to pack it in. We also dropped some goodun's.
Steve's nice 48cm Maori.

The feed.

 
On the way back to the ramp we came across more tuna bustups but they were pretty flighty. Eventually we cruised into a school and Steve hooked up once again. A few blistering runs and Steve was getting some line back. We were both thinking this could be the bay tuna that has eluded him for many years.
Unfortunately it wasn't to be, with the treble hooks pulling. We continued to chase them for awhile as well as trolling a 6 metre diver. No success, so we put the throttle down on what was a pretty smooth bay, and made it to the ramp an hour or so later than we planned.
I'll put up some footage of Steve's screaming reel later.
 

Got up early today and picked up @Old Scaley for the journey up to Bongaree boat ramp. Headed up the eastern side of Bribie and stopped at a mark for some livies, but nothing showing so motored on and discovered there were a LOT of tuna bustups going on around us.
Steve rigged a spoon and launched it into the pack. A couple of winds and he was on. Woohoo. Good start. About 10 minutes into the fight he lost it and the spoon... maybe sharked (as it became a dead weight and then nothing) ?? We tried a few more schools without any luck. Never mind, Steve was happy to have had some fun.
We arrived at the spot we were going to bottom bash at. A few lancers were landed and strip baited, only to catch more lancers. I think Steve landed this tuskie before we decided to shift spots.

 
Next spot there were more lancers and whiptails pickering us. Rather than pulling anchor I decided to just let out more rope and drift until we were fishing in a different spot. It was quiet and I was pondering a shift again when a nice 34cm grassie jumped on. Then Steve and I both managed to catch grassies, tuskies, squire and Maori cod. Some were unders but we managed to put a good feed together by the time we decided to pack it in. We also dropped some goodun's.
Steve's nice 48cm Maori.

The feed.

 
On the way back to the ramp we came across more tuna bustups but they were pretty flighty. Eventually we cruised into a school and Steve hooked up once again. A few blistering runs and Steve was getting some line back. We were both thinking this could be the bay tuna that has eluded him for many years.
Unfortunately it wasn't to be, with the treble hooks pulling. We continued to chase them for awhile as well as trolling a 6 metre diver. No success, so we put the throttle down on what was a pretty smooth bay, and made it to the ramp an hour or so later than we planned.
I'll put up some footage of Steve's screaming reel later.
 

Shame it was belly up though; don't really want or need to keep anything that big.
 

Michelle says I'm too old to be backing up for two days in a row. haha
We'll get there again next opportunity.
Steve's was the 48 Maori and mine was a 42 grassie. Dropped a couple of better fish too (again !). Water was still a bit murky but better than a fortnight or so ago.

Sunday morning incoming tide on the beach; castnet scored half a dozen big prawns and three legal whiting - all but one whiting were blacktip and hammerhead food in quick time.
Last whiting got snaffled and got a glimpse of what looked like a largish shovelnose; so was not being particularly conscientious fighting it. Finally got it close enough to see - turns out was an estimated 120-130 salmon (lost my tape measure so just a guess). 

Was lip hooked and I don't need something that big, but just stayed belly up trying to swim it - which we seem to get most of the time for the bigger kings on the beach, so home it came. I think they fight themselves to death because at the end of the fight they're basically dead when they hit the beach, whereas the smaller ones just swim off immediately. Big barra just swim off immediately too.

Two other guys fishing; both got a king salmon over a metre straight after so there must be a few around.

Sound like awesome fun!  When's your next deckie cancelling last minute so I can get an invite?  Tomorrow morning lol.  Sounds like a really exciting trip - what was your biggest and what was the water quality like?

Nice feed fellas 👍

Got up early today and picked up @Old Scaley for the journey up to Bongaree boat ramp. Headed up the eastern side of Bribie and stopped at a mark for some livies, but nothing showing so motored on and discovered there were a LOT of tuna bustups going on around us.
Steve rigged a spoon and launched it into the pack. A couple of winds and he was on. Woohoo. Good start. About 10 minutes into the fight he lost it and the spoon... maybe sharked (as it became a dead weight and then nothing) ?? We tried a few more schools without any luck. Never mind, Steve was happy to have had some fun.
We arrived at the spot we were going to bottom bash at. A few lancers were landed and strip baited, only to catch more lancers. I think Steve landed this tuskie before we decided to shift spots.

 
Next spot there were more lancers and whiptails pickering us. Rather than pulling anchor I decided to just let out more rope and drift until we were fishing in a different spot. It was quiet and I was pondering a shift again when a nice 34cm grassie jumped on. Then Steve and I both managed to catch grassies, tuskies, squire and Maori cod. Some were unders but we managed to put a good feed together by the time we decided to pack it in. We also dropped some goodun's.
Steve's nice 48cm Maori.

The feed.

 
On the way back to the ramp we came across more tuna bustups but they were pretty flighty. Eventually we cruised into a school and Steve hooked up once again. A few blistering runs and Steve was getting some line back. We were both thinking this could be the bay tuna that has eluded him for many years.
Unfortunately it wasn't to be, with the treble hooks pulling. We continued to chase them for awhile as well as trolling a 6 metre diver. No success, so we put the throttle down on what was a pretty smooth bay, and made it to the ramp an hour or so later than we planned.
I'll put up some footage of Steve's screaming reel later.
 

Got up early today and picked up @Old Scaley for the journey up to Bongaree boat ramp. Headed up the eastern side of Bribie and stopped at a mark for some livies, but nothing showing so motored on and discovered there were a LOT of tuna bustups going on around us.
Steve rigged a spoon and launched it into the pack. A couple of winds and he was on. Woohoo. Good start. About 10 minutes into the fight he lost it and the spoon... maybe sharked (as it became a dead weight and then nothing) ?? We tried a few more schools without any luck. Never mind, Steve was happy to have had some fun.
We arrived at the spot we were going to bottom bash at. A few lancers were landed and strip baited, only to catch more lancers. I think Steve landed this tuskie before we decided to shift spots.

 
Next spot there were more lancers and whiptails pickering us. Rather than pulling anchor I decided to just let out more rope and drift until we were fishing in a different spot. It was quiet and I was pondering a shift again when a nice 34cm grassie jumped on. Then Steve and I both managed to catch grassies, tuskies, squire and Maori cod. Some were unders but we managed to put a good feed together by the time we decided to pack it in. We also dropped some goodun's.
Steve's nice 48cm Maori.

The feed.

 
On the way back to the ramp we came across more tuna bustups but they were pretty flighty. Eventually we cruised into a school and Steve hooked up once again. A few blistering runs and Steve was getting some line back. We were both thinking this could be the bay tuna that has eluded him for many years.
Unfortunately it wasn't to be, with the treble hooks pulling. We continued to chase them for awhile as well as trolling a 6 metre diver. No success, so we put the throttle down on what was a pretty smooth bay, and made it to the ramp an hour or so later than we planned.
I'll put up some footage of Steve's screaming reel later.
 

Thanks for another great day out @ellicat. Lots of action and some nice table fish to top it off. It would have been great to get at least one of the tuna into the boat, but great fun anyway.

Sounds like a good day, and got a decent feed of fillets.
Well done fella's.😄

Got up early today and picked up @Old Scaley for the journey up to Bongaree boat ramp. Headed up the eastern side of Bribie and stopped at a mark for some livies, but nothing showing so motored on and discovered there were a LOT of tuna bustups going on around us.
Steve rigged a spoon and launched it into the pack. A couple of winds and he was on. Woohoo. Good start. About 10 minutes into the fight he lost it and the spoon... maybe sharked (as it became a dead weight and then nothing) ?? We tried a few more schools without any luck. Never mind, Steve was happy to have had some fun.
We arrived at the spot we were going to bottom bash at. A few lancers were landed and strip baited, only to catch more lancers. I think Steve landed this tuskie before we decided to shift spots.

 
Next spot there were more lancers and whiptails pickering us. Rather than pulling anchor I decided to just let out more rope and drift until we were fishing in a different spot. It was quiet and I was pondering a shift again when a nice 34cm grassie jumped on. Then Steve and I both managed to catch grassies, tuskies, squire and Maori cod. Some were unders but we managed to put a good feed together by the time we decided to pack it in. We also dropped some goodun's.
Steve's nice 48cm Maori.

The feed.

 
On the way back to the ramp we came across more tuna bustups but they were pretty flighty. Eventually we cruised into a school and Steve hooked up once again. A few blistering runs and Steve was getting some line back. We were both thinking this could be the bay tuna that has eluded him for many years.
Unfortunately it wasn't to be, with the treble hooks pulling. We continued to chase them for awhile as well as trolling a 6 metre diver. No success, so we put the throttle down on what was a pretty smooth bay, and made it to the ramp an hour or so later than we planned.
I'll put up some footage of Steve's screaming reel later.
 

Great work Brian and Steve - I’m glad you guys had some fun today and got some good fish.
It’s a shame about the tuna Steve but it sounds like you had a good time fighting them!
Cheers Hamish 

Got up early today and picked up @Old Scaley for the journey up to Bongaree boat ramp. Headed up the eastern side of Bribie and stopped at a mark for some livies, but nothing showing so motored on and discovered there were a LOT of tuna bustups going on around us.
Steve rigged a spoon and launched it into the pack. A couple of winds and he was on. Woohoo. Good start. About 10 minutes into the fight he lost it and the spoon... maybe sharked (as it became a dead weight and then nothing) ?? We tried a few more schools without any luck. Never mind, Steve was happy to have had some fun.
We arrived at the spot we were going to bottom bash at. A few lancers were landed and strip baited, only to catch more lancers. I think Steve landed this tuskie before we decided to shift spots.

 
Next spot there were more lancers and whiptails pickering us. Rather than pulling anchor I decided to just let out more rope and drift until we were fishing in a different spot. It was quiet and I was pondering a shift again when a nice 34cm grassie jumped on. Then Steve and I both managed to catch grassies, tuskies, squire and Maori cod. Some were unders but we managed to put a good feed together by the time we decided to pack it in. We also dropped some goodun's.
Steve's nice 48cm Maori.

The feed.

 
On the way back to the ramp we came across more tuna bustups but they were pretty flighty. Eventually we cruised into a school and Steve hooked up once again. A few blistering runs and Steve was getting some line back. We were both thinking this could be the bay tuna that has eluded him for many years.
Unfortunately it wasn't to be, with the treble hooks pulling. We continued to chase them for awhile as well as trolling a 6 metre diver. No success, so we put the throttle down on what was a pretty smooth bay, and made it to the ramp an hour or so later than we planned.
I'll put up some footage of Steve's screaming reel later.