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Congrats Brian!!! Finally got the legal snapper off the list. Now they'll come flooding in mate.

I've found soaking a cotton ball in vinegar and leaving it on the contacts over night cleaned off my green corrosion pretty easily. Then I kept up with spraying lanox/im6 on the contacts after each fishing session and that has kept it clean since.

I'll let the wife know.
The trailer is hers apparently.

Had the new caravan away down at Tallebudgera caravan Park over Xmas holidays and I was up and down with work but the family staye most of the holidays. I got out a couple of times on the palm beach reef chasing the mackerel and my son hit up the marlin a few times. 
My son Brock had his best day going 4 from 5 on good size black marlin up to 100 kg fish. We had a couple of good days on the mackerel only minutes from where we stay at the park on the palmy reef.


The new van is getting a good work out with plenty of trips since we got it in September last year. Soon setting up roof racks for my roof topper tinnie for trips with the van, bring on more time touring then.

Decided to brave the wet and the chop today with @Old Scaley and hit up Spot X at Mud Island. I was keen to tryout my new Daiwa BG 4000 loaded with 24lb WTF Gliss !
Steve kicked off with a breambo and some unders squire. My lead was too light so I changed to a rod with some more weight and joined in on the unders squire. Then it happened again, just like the other day and I got owned big time on a fish that took a long run, hesitated briefly, then ran me into some reef. 20lb. Not good enough. Put some more weight on my Gliss WTF ! rod and had the same happen again although not quite as long a run. Leader busted.
Steve also had a good hit from a suspected cod, but didn't hookup. Then he got owned by something decent as well. He also had a smaller fish get sharked which played him for a few minutes before snipping him.
Landed a couple of grassies that were getting close to legal, but not close enough.
Somewhere amongst all of that a couple of fellas in an open tinnie approached us stating they were lost. So pointed them in the right direction and off they went. Visibility wasn't great especially when the rain got a bit heavy. Didn't see them again so assume they made it back to port ok.
With conditions not really improving we decided to head back in too around 11 am. The run back was better than the run out, now with wind and tide together. Got into the river and it flattened out so we decided to drift around Clara Rock area.
Steve got a good hit and landed a snapper about 48, then another a notch smaller as well as a cod. Me - nothing just some timid bites. Finally the rod buckled and I finally landed the legal snapper that has eluded me for a long time. I was chuffed even though he only went 38. Steve landed another legal and we both got a couple of just unders before the chills from being saturated through all morning got the better of us and we left them biting. Only 2 other trailers at the ramp when we got back.
It was a good day despite the conditions with both of us getting a feed. Thanks Steve for sharing one.
 
Oh yeah, forgot to mention the snapper ate Steve's rod.

 

How about that? Redland City Bulletin Jan 27

Hey All, 
Been a while since I have posted about a fishing trip,  Been heaps slack,  not doing much fishing since around late September and with work being very hectic found myself with barely any time to get on the water.  
Left the ramp early around 4am Australia Day morning headed for some ground south of Cape Moreton with intentions of Chasing a Black Marlin & maybe a offshore snapper if they wanted play the game .  Good run across the Northern Bay in the dark although very shallow in a few areas causing some detours around some white water 😞. 
Anchored up around 545am ish in some wonderful conditions ,  1st few baits we had some mac tuna hammering our floating baits  which helped wake us up and get the blood pumping . 
After deploying some burley and the mac tuna thankfully going away - I was up first with a good hook up on what felt like a nice snapper,  only to pull the hooks  - I quickly retied a new hook on and put another bait out and instantly hooked up to what I called a good snapper - this thing went super hard for the structure and had me in the bottom for a few tense moments,
Bit of rod work and up came a nice size Jew.  around the 9kg mark,  which was released to fight another day.   Kept at is for about another 15mins with a few runs and a few bust ups, 
My mate hooked a good fish which ended up being a nice spangle emperor around 6kg mark and despatched quickly to the esky, I was up again this time with a nice snapper around 5kg which went in the ice slurry as well. another 10mins past and I was blown away 2 more times on 40lb O/head gear with not much else I could do , felt like a passenger holding a fishing rod. re-rigged again, wound the drag up on the Talica 16 and sent another bait back in the burley trail but not as far back to the structure as normal and stopped it , let is float there in the current for a bit and the it started screaming off, this fish was no where near the caliber of the of beast from previous hook ups but still good,  bit of a tussle and up popped a nice snapper around 5kg - it went straight to esky also,  Seems I was on I fire with hook up and the deckie not getting a single bite.  I put another bait out and locked the rod in the holder set ready to go again. 
I decided to chuck a bit of sunscreen on as the sun was coming out from behind the clouds and was heating up,  whilst doing this my rod screamed of again. I asked the deckie to grab this one and sort it out ,  this fish fought well and in no time  I slid the next under a nice snapper around 5-6kg . Straight to the esky he went.  
By this stage is was getting to around 8am and we started hearing some radio chatter about Marlin to the North of us around the Caloundra Wide area. So we rigged up out last baits set them back around similar distance and I started cleaning all the boat up and the deckie started getting the trolling rods ready , after about 10mins stuffing around ,  my rod went absolutely nuts.  locked it into gear and I was howling - got to work on pretty quick and went hard trying to turn this around. This thing played stale mate and ran hard along the bottom and literality pulling me to the back corner of the boat - Unsure if this was an even bigger Jew or snapper, once I had him coming up I started playing it safe and let my rod do the work. Deckie was on the net & ready and done a top job getting this bad boy in the boat - PB for me for Spangled Emporer going 8kg on Popey's scales last night.
From there we headed North Trolling for Marlin managing to hook one out off Caloundra around 11.30am. Jumped off pretty quick,  pretty happy to get a bite considering my 1st attempt ever at trolling for marlin.. 
Headed for home around 1pm in nice conditions.  
Few pics below 
Cheers Josh <><
 
 
 
 

TwinPowers used to be 1 step below a Stella. Not sure if shimano has brought anything in between in the last few years. Maybe the vanquish?
Ive only got a 1000 twingpower mg and rarely use it since its meant to be freshwater only and ive got it spooled with that silly 2lb flouro. Unfortunately, if i was going to buy new, i would just buy a stella. But if a bargain new or 2nd hand twinpower turned up, i would buy it.

Yeah mate. Honestly, that 2lb flouro was just the best way to fish in most of the NPD waters. I did end up tieing on 10lb leader to stop getting bitten/rubbed off when the bass would swallow the hook.
The 2lb was not ideal however around some of the fads and underwater logs etc.
Got dusted a few times but it was honestly super enjoyable. The bigger fish were a great fight and put the rod and reel to the test.

Yep. So no matter what size you get them at or how many you get, the only thing you can do is take them home and add butter and garlic to a saucepan and eat them :D
Doing it for nature. All selfless I swear.

Yep. So no matter what size you get them at or how many you get, the only thing you can do is take them home and add butter and garlic to a saucepan and eat them :D
Doing it for nature. All selfless I swear.

Yeah mate. Honestly, that 2lb flouro was just the best way to fish in most of the NPD waters. I did end up tieing on 10lb leader to stop getting bitten/rubbed off when the bass would swallow the hook.
The 2lb was not ideal however around some of the fads and underwater logs etc.
Got dusted a few times but it was honestly super enjoyable. The bigger fish were a great fight and put the rod and reel to the test.

TwinPowers used to be 1 step below a Stella. Not sure if shimano has brought anything in between in the last few years. Maybe the vanquish?
Ive only got a 1000 twingpower mg and rarely use it since its meant to be freshwater only and ive got it spooled with that silly 2lb flouro. Unfortunately, if i was going to buy new, i would just buy a stella. But if a bargain new or 2nd hand twinpower turned up, i would buy it.

Yeah mate. Honestly, that 2lb flouro was just the best way to fish in most of the NPD waters. I did end up tieing on 10lb leader to stop getting bitten/rubbed off when the bass would swallow the hook.
The 2lb was not ideal however around some of the fads and underwater logs etc.
Got dusted a few times but it was honestly super enjoyable. The bigger fish were a great fight and put the rod and reel to the test.

Yep. So no matter what size you get them at or how many you get, the only thing you can do is take them home and add butter and garlic to a saucepan and eat them :D
Doing it for nature. All selfless I swear.

Yeah mate. Honestly, that 2lb flouro was just the best way to fish in most of the NPD waters. I did end up tieing on 10lb leader to stop getting bitten/rubbed off when the bass would swallow the hook.
The 2lb was not ideal however around some of the fads and underwater logs etc.
Got dusted a few times but it was honestly super enjoyable. The bigger fish were a great fight and put the rod and reel to the test.

Yep. So no matter what size you get them at or how many you get, the only thing you can do is take them home and add butter and garlic to a saucepan and eat them :D
Doing it for nature. All selfless I swear.

Yep. So no matter what size you get them at or how many you get, the only thing you can do is take them home and add butter and garlic to a saucepan and eat them :D
Doing it for nature. All selfless I swear.

The fad shutdown so we moved our way to the fishing water limits. Taking in the sights on the way there.



 

a few small bass were picked up


 
and then Ray stepped up with a whopper

Ray will have a better pic, but you can see it hit the 50 mark.

So with the shrimp collected, we moved our way to the first spot which was a fad and we were quickly on. I think it was the 2nd fish boated and I was onto a fat yella.

You can see the shrimp still inside its gob.
and it went a good 43cm. So not one of those epic footballs but went hard on 2lb flouro all the way through :)
 

First up - get the deckies to earn their keep 😄 Collecting shrimp and re-baiting for Rays next trip back. For anyone keen to make these very successful shrimp traps, don't forget there's a post from Ray on how to.

This pot hadn't been checked in a while and had some pre-cooked shrimp in there. Lucky they didn't stink too bad. Hai was having a laugh warning us about the smells of a dead water rat that you occasionally get in a red claw trap 🤢🤮
Speaking of redclaw - we got a few little ones in amongst the shrimp. Even though they were small, you can't chuck them back. So my brother kept them to make an entree 😄

But we ended up with a fair amount of shrimp. Probably somewhere between 100-150 once we had done our round. Here's 1 net load of a few being transferred from the collection bucket to the keeper esky.

 

When Ray posted up that he needed a laptop to keep him busy while he's laid up post knee surgery, it was a no brainer to rebuild an old laptop of mine to give him for his browsing needs. While Ray and I were discussing logistics of getting the laptop to him, I thought I'd be cheeky and offer him a swap of the laptop for a seat on a trip to one of the dams. It has been ages since I've been on the water with Ray.
So yesterday it was a trip to NPD. One of Rays planned deckies wasn't able to make it and so he kindly offered it to my brother who was super excited to say yes.
Up at 3:40am, picked up my brother and headed off to meat Ray and Hai at the gates at 5:20. A quick chat and Ray reminded me that it may have been almost 10 years since I was last at NPD with him. Sheesh... where does time go?
How good is the classic BFO shirt? 🙂
We made our way along the waters taking in the beautiful sights. It really is magical being on the water with no sounds of a petrol engine in earshot.

For a man who sees this 2-3 times a week, you can tell he's happy to be on the water.

 
 
 

We picked up a few Tandans, bass and yella's throughout the day. I think the tally ended up around 80-something fish landed.



 
 
We were off the water at around 1:15pm and hit Strathpine KFC by 1:45pm. It's like a ritual for my brother and I to have KFC after a fishing session.
Overall a great day. The fish were on, the views were amazing and the company was top notch and entertaining. Thank you again Ray for the deckie spots. I hope I get another chance soon to get on the water with you mate. Sometime before another decade passes 😄

We picked up a few Tandans, bass and yella's throughout the day. I think the tally ended up around 80-something fish landed.



 
 
We were off the water at around 1:15pm and hit Strathpine KFC by 1:45pm. It's like a ritual for my brother and I to have KFC after a fishing session.
Overall a great day. The fish were on, the views were amazing and the company was top notch and entertaining. Thank you again Ray for the deckie spots. I hope I get another chance soon to get on the water with you mate. Sometime before another decade passes 😄