ellicat

I was just trying to ease your pain...honestly...
Yes, like you told me, we moved around a bit today to escape the wee creatures. Kat has promised to donate to my electric motor fund. haha

Very happy with the fish. A bit unhappy with the pickers we had to fight through to get them. Those sharks are driving me nuts.
 

Sure was. My new favourite spot. Only trouble is the weather has to be pretty good to go there in my tub.

@Kat came over to my place at 4am today to get the days proceedings underway. We hit the ramp at Bribie about 5.30 and were on the water heading to our destination at 5.50. First we headed to some bait grounds where Kat jigged up two bite size pike that went to the livewell.
Then we couldn't jag anything except a couple of baby squire so small, you could swallow them whole in place of the usual goldfish. Also a butter bream. So we headed off on the long trek to Caloundra encountering a couple of showers on the way that required the donning of the wet gear.
Eventually we were at the mark and anchored up. We were greeted by some lancers and whiptails. Bad start. About half hour in I got a decent hit and wrangled the first tuskie aboard. Quite a pretty specimen.
 

It went 43 on the lie detector

 
The pickers forced us to move to the second spot after Kat pulled the anchor in 20 metres. (better her than me - I could watch all day).
Onto the second spot where anchoring saw us nowhere near the mark, but we deployed our baits anyway. Up came a 40cm grassie. Kat wasn't on the board yet except for some Lancers, so we (I mean Kat) pulled anchor and we sounded up some new ground. It seemed all the fish were on my side of the boat today. Despite a couple of good hits Kat just couldn't get one in.
Finally Kat did get one in and it was a nice 33cm Spanish Flag / Stripey. Off the donut! phew.
Then I was onto a decent grassie again about the same size as the first before we changed spots again.
It was at this last spot that I hooked what I think was a big snapper (by my standards - maybe 65+). I got it about three quarters of the way in when off it went at a rate of knots. "Damn Damn Damn" I said (or words to that effect). I'd been sharked again. They really are trying to spoil my summer. I had a little sit down to cry, rerigged and sent out another bait. It was getting pickered when suddenly the heavier thump came in. I loaded up and muscled it to the boat before a shark got it. Another tuskie about the same size as the first. Woohoo. Eating well tonight.
I'd sent Kat up the front of the boat to try to cast closer to the mark that we had missed again. Unfortunately that wasn't so successful, so she returned to the stern where she was able to boat another fish - a grassie going 35. Dinner sorted for both of us.
Conditions had been ideal all morning until about 11.30 when the breeze sprung up and the surface started chopping so we called it and ran for home. We raced against this ominous bit of heavy rain to our east.

We beat it and made it safely back to the ramp right on time at 1pm.
So it was a fairly slow day, but we put a feed together and the quality was good. Can't complain about that. Thanks for coming out, Kat. It was a top way to spend the last of the good weather for at least 10 days or more.
Kat will have a couple of pictures to add later.
Here's the extent of my success today -


All fish caught on Cuttlefish heads, except Kat's grassie that was caught on a fresh Lancer fillet.
 
 

Also, I forgot to mention I went fishing with @Old Scaley last week and he caught this remarkable flathead. When we put him on the measure he was just under ...

@Kat came over to my place at 4am today to get the days proceedings underway. We hit the ramp at Bribie about 5.30 and were on the water heading to our destination at 5.50. First we headed to some bait grounds where Kat jigged up two bite size pike that went to the livewell.
Then we couldn't jag anything except a couple of baby squire so small, you could swallow them whole in place of the usual goldfish. Also a butter bream. So we headed off on the long trek to Caloundra encountering a couple of showers on the way that required the donning of the wet gear.
Eventually we were at the mark and anchored up. We were greeted by some lancers and whiptails. Bad start. About half hour in I got a decent hit and wrangled the first tuskie aboard. Quite a pretty specimen.
 

It went 43 on the lie detector

 
The pickers forced us to move to the second spot after Kat pulled the anchor in 20 metres. (better her than me - I could watch all day).
Onto the second spot where anchoring saw us nowhere near the mark, but we deployed our baits anyway. Up came a 40cm grassie. Kat wasn't on the board yet except for some Lancers, so we (I mean Kat) pulled anchor and we sounded up some new ground. It seemed all the fish were on my side of the boat today. Despite a couple of good hits Kat just couldn't get one in.
Finally Kat did get one in and it was a nice 33cm Spanish Flag / Stripey. Off the donut! phew.
Then I was onto a decent grassie again about the same size as the first before we changed spots again.
It was at this last spot that I hooked what I think was a big snapper (by my standards - maybe 65+). I got it about three quarters of the way in when off it went at a rate of knots. "Damn Damn Damn" I said (or words to that effect). I'd been sharked again. They really are trying to spoil my summer. I had a little sit down to cry, rerigged and sent out another bait. It was getting pickered when suddenly the heavier thump came in. I loaded up and muscled it to the boat before a shark got it. Another tuskie about the same size as the first. Woohoo. Eating well tonight.
I'd sent Kat up the front of the boat to try to cast closer to the mark that we had missed again. Unfortunately that wasn't so successful, so she returned to the stern where she was able to boat another fish - a grassie going 35. Dinner sorted for both of us.
Conditions had been ideal all morning until about 11.30 when the breeze sprung up and the surface started chopping so we called it and ran for home. We raced against this ominous bit of heavy rain to our east.

We beat it and made it safely back to the ramp right on time at 1pm.
So it was a fairly slow day, but we put a feed together and the quality was good. Can't complain about that. Thanks for coming out, Kat. It was a top way to spend the last of the good weather for at least 10 days or more.
Kat will have a couple of pictures to add later.
Here's the extent of my success today -


All fish caught on Cuttlefish heads, except Kat's grassie that was caught on a fresh Lancer fillet.
 
 

@Kat came over to my place at 4am today to get the days proceedings underway. We hit the ramp at Bribie about 5.30 and were on the water heading to our destination at 5.50. First we headed to some bait grounds where Kat jigged up two bite size pike that went to the livewell.
Then we couldn't jag anything except a couple of baby squire so small, you could swallow them whole in place of the usual goldfish. Also a butter bream. So we headed off on the long trek to Caloundra encountering a couple of showers on the way that required the donning of the wet gear.
Eventually we were at the mark and anchored up. We were greeted by some lancers and whiptails. Bad start. About half hour in I got a decent hit and wrangled the first tuskie aboard. Quite a pretty specimen.
 

It went 43 on the lie detector

 
The pickers forced us to move to the second spot after Kat pulled the anchor in 20 metres. (better her than me - I could watch all day).
Onto the second spot where anchoring saw us nowhere near the mark, but we deployed our baits anyway. Up came a 40cm grassie. Kat wasn't on the board yet except for some Lancers, so we (I mean Kat) pulled anchor and we sounded up some new ground. It seemed all the fish were on my side of the boat today. Despite a couple of good hits Kat just couldn't get one in.
Finally Kat did get one in and it was a nice 33cm Spanish Flag / Stripey. Off the donut! phew.
Then I was onto a decent grassie again about the same size as the first before we changed spots again.
It was at this last spot that I hooked what I think was a big snapper (by my standards - maybe 65+). I got it about three quarters of the way in when off it went at a rate of knots. "Damn Damn Damn" I said (or words to that effect). I'd been sharked again. They really are trying to spoil my summer. I had a little sit down to cry, rerigged and sent out another bait. It was getting pickered when suddenly the heavier thump came in. I loaded up and muscled it to the boat before a shark got it. Another tuskie about the same size as the first. Woohoo. Eating well tonight.
I'd sent Kat up the front of the boat to try to cast closer to the mark that we had missed again. Unfortunately that wasn't so successful, so she returned to the stern where she was able to boat another fish - a grassie going 35. Dinner sorted for both of us.
Conditions had been ideal all morning until about 11.30 when the breeze sprung up and the surface started chopping so we called it and ran for home. We raced against this ominous bit of heavy rain to our east.

We beat it and made it safely back to the ramp right on time at 1pm.
So it was a fairly slow day, but we put a feed together and the quality was good. Can't complain about that. Thanks for coming out, Kat. It was a top way to spend the last of the good weather for at least 10 days or more.
Kat will have a couple of pictures to add later.
Here's the extent of my success today -


All fish caught on Cuttlefish heads, except Kat's grassie that was caught on a fresh Lancer fillet.
 
 

Just under the measure.... we couldn't find it for awhile.

I was just trying to ease your pain...honestly...
Yes, like you told me, we moved around a bit today to escape the wee creatures. Kat has promised to donate to my electric motor fund. haha

Just under the measure.... we couldn't find it for awhile.

Yes, we did. However it is a funnier story to just show one pic. haha

Also, I forgot to mention I went fishing with @Old Scaley last week and he caught this remarkable flathead. When we put him on the measure he was just under ...

@Kat came over to my place at 4am today to get the days proceedings underway. We hit the ramp at Bribie about 5.30 and were on the water heading to our destination at 5.50. First we headed to some bait grounds where Kat jigged up two bite size pike that went to the livewell.
Then we couldn't jag anything except a couple of baby squire so small, you could swallow them whole in place of the usual goldfish. Also a butter bream. So we headed off on the long trek to Caloundra encountering a couple of showers on the way that required the donning of the wet gear.
Eventually we were at the mark and anchored up. We were greeted by some lancers and whiptails. Bad start. About half hour in I got a decent hit and wrangled the first tuskie aboard. Quite a pretty specimen.
 

It went 43 on the lie detector

 
The pickers forced us to move to the second spot after Kat pulled the anchor in 20 metres. (better her than me - I could watch all day).
Onto the second spot where anchoring saw us nowhere near the mark, but we deployed our baits anyway. Up came a 40cm grassie. Kat wasn't on the board yet except for some Lancers, so we (I mean Kat) pulled anchor and we sounded up some new ground. It seemed all the fish were on my side of the boat today. Despite a couple of good hits Kat just couldn't get one in.
Finally Kat did get one in and it was a nice 33cm Spanish Flag / Stripey. Off the donut! phew.
Then I was onto a decent grassie again about the same size as the first before we changed spots again.
It was at this last spot that I hooked what I think was a big snapper (by my standards - maybe 65+). I got it about three quarters of the way in when off it went at a rate of knots. "Damn Damn Damn" I said (or words to that effect). I'd been sharked again. They really are trying to spoil my summer. I had a little sit down to cry, rerigged and sent out another bait. It was getting pickered when suddenly the heavier thump came in. I loaded up and muscled it to the boat before a shark got it. Another tuskie about the same size as the first. Woohoo. Eating well tonight.
I'd sent Kat up the front of the boat to try to cast closer to the mark that we had missed again. Unfortunately that wasn't so successful, so she returned to the stern where she was able to boat another fish - a grassie going 35. Dinner sorted for both of us.
Conditions had been ideal all morning until about 11.30 when the breeze sprung up and the surface started chopping so we called it and ran for home. We raced against this ominous bit of heavy rain to our east.

We beat it and made it safely back to the ramp right on time at 1pm.
So it was a fairly slow day, but we put a feed together and the quality was good. Can't complain about that. Thanks for coming out, Kat. It was a top way to spend the last of the good weather for at least 10 days or more.
Kat will have a couple of pictures to add later.
Here's the extent of my success today -


All fish caught on Cuttlefish heads, except Kat's grassie that was caught on a fresh Lancer fillet.
 
 

Sure was. My new favourite spot. Only trouble is the weather has to be pretty good to go there in my tub.

@Kat came over to my place at 4am today to get the days proceedings underway. We hit the ramp at Bribie about 5.30 and were on the water heading to our destination at 5.50. First we headed to some bait grounds where Kat jigged up two bite size pike that went to the livewell.
Then we couldn't jag anything except a couple of baby squire so small, you could swallow them whole in place of the usual goldfish. Also a butter bream. So we headed off on the long trek to Caloundra encountering a couple of showers on the way that required the donning of the wet gear.
Eventually we were at the mark and anchored up. We were greeted by some lancers and whiptails. Bad start. About half hour in I got a decent hit and wrangled the first tuskie aboard. Quite a pretty specimen.
 

It went 43 on the lie detector

 
The pickers forced us to move to the second spot after Kat pulled the anchor in 20 metres. (better her than me - I could watch all day).
Onto the second spot where anchoring saw us nowhere near the mark, but we deployed our baits anyway. Up came a 40cm grassie. Kat wasn't on the board yet except for some Lancers, so we (I mean Kat) pulled anchor and we sounded up some new ground. It seemed all the fish were on my side of the boat today. Despite a couple of good hits Kat just couldn't get one in.
Finally Kat did get one in and it was a nice 33cm Spanish Flag / Stripey. Off the donut! phew.
Then I was onto a decent grassie again about the same size as the first before we changed spots again.
It was at this last spot that I hooked what I think was a big snapper (by my standards - maybe 65+). I got it about three quarters of the way in when off it went at a rate of knots. "Damn Damn Damn" I said (or words to that effect). I'd been sharked again. They really are trying to spoil my summer. I had a little sit down to cry, rerigged and sent out another bait. It was getting pickered when suddenly the heavier thump came in. I loaded up and muscled it to the boat before a shark got it. Another tuskie about the same size as the first. Woohoo. Eating well tonight.
I'd sent Kat up the front of the boat to try to cast closer to the mark that we had missed again. Unfortunately that wasn't so successful, so she returned to the stern where she was able to boat another fish - a grassie going 35. Dinner sorted for both of us.
Conditions had been ideal all morning until about 11.30 when the breeze sprung up and the surface started chopping so we called it and ran for home. We raced against this ominous bit of heavy rain to our east.

We beat it and made it safely back to the ramp right on time at 1pm.
So it was a fairly slow day, but we put a feed together and the quality was good. Can't complain about that. Thanks for coming out, Kat. It was a top way to spend the last of the good weather for at least 10 days or more.
Kat will have a couple of pictures to add later.
Here's the extent of my success today -


All fish caught on Cuttlefish heads, except Kat's grassie that was caught on a fresh Lancer fillet.
 
 

I was just trying to ease your pain...honestly...
Yes, like you told me, we moved around a bit today to escape the wee creatures. Kat has promised to donate to my electric motor fund. haha

Just under the measure.... we couldn't find it for awhile.

Also, I forgot to mention I went fishing with @Old Scaley last week and he caught this remarkable flathead. When we put him on the measure he was just under ...

@Kat came over to my place at 4am today to get the days proceedings underway. We hit the ramp at Bribie about 5.30 and were on the water heading to our destination at 5.50. First we headed to some bait grounds where Kat jigged up two bite size pike that went to the livewell.
Then we couldn't jag anything except a couple of baby squire so small, you could swallow them whole in place of the usual goldfish. Also a butter bream. So we headed off on the long trek to Caloundra encountering a couple of showers on the way that required the donning of the wet gear.
Eventually we were at the mark and anchored up. We were greeted by some lancers and whiptails. Bad start. About half hour in I got a decent hit and wrangled the first tuskie aboard. Quite a pretty specimen.
 

It went 43 on the lie detector

 
The pickers forced us to move to the second spot after Kat pulled the anchor in 20 metres. (better her than me - I could watch all day).
Onto the second spot where anchoring saw us nowhere near the mark, but we deployed our baits anyway. Up came a 40cm grassie. Kat wasn't on the board yet except for some Lancers, so we (I mean Kat) pulled anchor and we sounded up some new ground. It seemed all the fish were on my side of the boat today. Despite a couple of good hits Kat just couldn't get one in.
Finally Kat did get one in and it was a nice 33cm Spanish Flag / Stripey. Off the donut! phew.
Then I was onto a decent grassie again about the same size as the first before we changed spots again.
It was at this last spot that I hooked what I think was a big snapper (by my standards - maybe 65+). I got it about three quarters of the way in when off it went at a rate of knots. "Damn Damn Damn" I said (or words to that effect). I'd been sharked again. They really are trying to spoil my summer. I had a little sit down to cry, rerigged and sent out another bait. It was getting pickered when suddenly the heavier thump came in. I loaded up and muscled it to the boat before a shark got it. Another tuskie about the same size as the first. Woohoo. Eating well tonight.
I'd sent Kat up the front of the boat to try to cast closer to the mark that we had missed again. Unfortunately that wasn't so successful, so she returned to the stern where she was able to boat another fish - a grassie going 35. Dinner sorted for both of us.
Conditions had been ideal all morning until about 11.30 when the breeze sprung up and the surface started chopping so we called it and ran for home. We raced against this ominous bit of heavy rain to our east.

We beat it and made it safely back to the ramp right on time at 1pm.
So it was a fairly slow day, but we put a feed together and the quality was good. Can't complain about that. Thanks for coming out, Kat. It was a top way to spend the last of the good weather for at least 10 days or more.
Kat will have a couple of pictures to add later.
Here's the extent of my success today -


All fish caught on Cuttlefish heads, except Kat's grassie that was caught on a fresh Lancer fillet.
 
 

I was just trying to ease your pain...honestly...
Yes, like you told me, we moved around a bit today to escape the wee creatures. Kat has promised to donate to my electric motor fund. haha

Just under the measure.... we couldn't find it for awhile.

@Kat came over to my place at 4am today to get the days proceedings underway. We hit the ramp at Bribie about 5.30 and were on the water heading to our destination at 5.50. First we headed to some bait grounds where Kat jigged up two bite size pike that went to the livewell.
Then we couldn't jag anything except a couple of baby squire so small, you could swallow them whole in place of the usual goldfish. Also a butter bream. So we headed off on the long trek to Caloundra encountering a couple of showers on the way that required the donning of the wet gear.
Eventually we were at the mark and anchored up. We were greeted by some lancers and whiptails. Bad start. About half hour in I got a decent hit and wrangled the first tuskie aboard. Quite a pretty specimen.
 

It went 43 on the lie detector

 
The pickers forced us to move to the second spot after Kat pulled the anchor in 20 metres. (better her than me - I could watch all day).
Onto the second spot where anchoring saw us nowhere near the mark, but we deployed our baits anyway. Up came a 40cm grassie. Kat wasn't on the board yet except for some Lancers, so we (I mean Kat) pulled anchor and we sounded up some new ground. It seemed all the fish were on my side of the boat today. Despite a couple of good hits Kat just couldn't get one in.
Finally Kat did get one in and it was a nice 33cm Spanish Flag / Stripey. Off the donut! phew.
Then I was onto a decent grassie again about the same size as the first before we changed spots again.
It was at this last spot that I hooked what I think was a big snapper (by my standards - maybe 65+). I got it about three quarters of the way in when off it went at a rate of knots. "Damn Damn Damn" I said (or words to that effect). I'd been sharked again. They really are trying to spoil my summer. I had a little sit down to cry, rerigged and sent out another bait. It was getting pickered when suddenly the heavier thump came in. I loaded up and muscled it to the boat before a shark got it. Another tuskie about the same size as the first. Woohoo. Eating well tonight.
I'd sent Kat up the front of the boat to try to cast closer to the mark that we had missed again. Unfortunately that wasn't so successful, so she returned to the stern where she was able to boat another fish - a grassie going 35. Dinner sorted for both of us.
Conditions had been ideal all morning until about 11.30 when the breeze sprung up and the surface started chopping so we called it and ran for home. We raced against this ominous bit of heavy rain to our east.

We beat it and made it safely back to the ramp right on time at 1pm.
So it was a fairly slow day, but we put a feed together and the quality was good. Can't complain about that. Thanks for coming out, Kat. It was a top way to spend the last of the good weather for at least 10 days or more.
Kat will have a couple of pictures to add later.
Here's the extent of my success today -


All fish caught on Cuttlefish heads, except Kat's grassie that was caught on a fresh Lancer fillet.
 
 

Also, I forgot to mention I went fishing with @Old Scaley last week and he caught this remarkable flathead. When we put him on the measure he was just under ...

I was just trying to ease your pain...honestly...
Yes, like you told me, we moved around a bit today to escape the wee creatures. Kat has promised to donate to my electric motor fund. haha

Last spot I show you @ellicat… very very rude of you to send me photos of tuskies while I’m run of my feet at work.
 
glad you got a few decent fish though mate. You have to chip away constantly but there are almost always good fish there somewhere!