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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 ...

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.
 
 

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

I’d be happy with those. Nice tuskies. Pity about the bloo….dy sharks!

Nice work Kat and Brian! I’m glad you got onto a few decent fish. It’s a real shame about the big snapper though. 
Was that in a similar area to where you fished with Benno the other week?
That flatly is so tiny I could hardly make it out in the photo 😂. At least you didn’t donut, @Old Scaley.
Cheers Hamish
 

@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 ...

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.
 
 

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50%part A polyurethane + % of desire micro balloon (max 15/20 %)
50%part B polyurethane + % of desire micro balloon (max 15/20 %)
 
The percentage of micro balloon on the Part A and on the Part B must be the same 
The percentage of micro is depending of the buoyancy you desire , and position of the lure in the water you want , you'll have to do your own tests until getting the right position desired , it could be long and you may have to throw away a lot of lure before getting the perfection ( or almost) 

Went with Mark and his brother and his wife from Townsville this morning. Shrimp were a bit light on but we finished up for the day with 54 bass and 3 Tandans. Merle took line honours with a 48cm bass. Cheers Ray

Very nice. How did you overcome the buoyancy issue ?
Don't be shy - post up a picture of your huge GT !

Thanks for your comments….
as I loved  to do my own, and many friends ( and friends of friends) asked me to do some for them …I create à FB page 
https://www.facebook.com/LDP-lures-104185238081000/

Thanks all for the welcome!

Hi! Thanks!
Yeah this is the biggest cat I've got so far. A lot of them around in the passage and river mouths, especially through summer.
No I avoid the bridge, usually too busy. I prefer to find somewhere quiet.

Here are The beasts , they were not been catched in Australia 

Very nice. How did you overcome the buoyancy issue ?
Don't be shy - post up a picture of your huge GT !

You're safe.....just. We like to have people to poke fun at around SoO time.

Mate they look brilliant, glad to see you reached your goal. And congrats on the 57kg PB - awesome fish. Caught in Australia or somewhere else? Got a pic?

And we may not even mention that period of time when one horse managed to win the two-horse race eight straight years …… 🤔🤪

You're safe.....just. We like to have people to poke fun at around SoO time.

Hi Everyones
After a long time I'm back !
I'm back to show you the result , after o lot of tests, a lot of mistakes , now they are not so bad ..... Could get opportunity to test my popper on giant GT on many destination , and they work very very fine !
Between 150 and 190 gr 
 
Result : 57 kg personnal  record