Nog

1 hour ago, Drop Bear said:

Good on ya nog. Are you still fly fishing? 

Is there any other way to frustrate yourself ?
 

Done, but I love surveys, they fill in the time between doing my head in with my work

Remember, Aaron is only a Year 11 so lets help this generation by giving some of our time and hopefully acquired wisdom

Damn, you would list after I've dropped my monthly bundle on fly fishing crap.  That Terez/Tynos would be a great slow jig setup  I'm guessing.

Nog

Can you load Genesis Community maps?

Portable sounder for my yak. The transducer is fixed to a piece of flat alloy bar that is bent into a U type shape. One end is inserted into a rod holder tube whilst the other end is fixed to the transducer.

Any birds about mate?

11 hours ago, Hweebe said:

Side by side of mud island Navionics with “fish n chips” turned off. Cmaps is the chart with the dots.

Like @Nog said with fish n chips on navionics provides even more contour detail then the attached pic.

I haven’t found either map to display green zones well and have resorted to mapping waypoints and trails around green zones so it is very clear for me.

 

 

 

 

You stole my squid WayPoints

I have the Navionics "Fish n Chips" card, and has fine detail for Moreton Bay. For example the sou-west part of Mud Island looks like a bunch of spastic spaghettiti. 

I assume C-map can do the same but I'm running AutoChart Live on mine to map in greater details areas I'm intereste din

So that's where "the" school was.

Are you catching them or jagging them :0)

Nice set of assist hooks you got going there Dennis

secondhand polycraft, either the 4.10 which is more estuary, the 4.50 can hadle the bay on good days and get you home on bad days.

They are a wet boat, but goggle how to fix it

Think of the dude that  found Oz

The other island

Bloody Moreton Bay.

I went out Wednesday and did not see a scale, clocked up 120klms.......

That's Tuna.

I got to the dam at 4:30 and snoozed in the car

Got half-a-dozen before I went exploring new ground.  Sat on a stacked up school at one stage that refused everything I threw at them.....Go figure

Now worries mate. Get out there whenever you have a chance (Mine are teenagers now so I remember Dad duty well).

Norm

Awesome stuff James. Bream are not an easy target on fly so kudos to you mate.

"Gratuitous plug" .  If you want to improve your casting you would be most welcome to come to our club as we have many excellent casting instructors. https://www.facebook.com/BrisbaneFFC/

In fact our first meeting for the year is tonight at 6:30pm at the Wilston-Grange AFL club in Stafford.

There is also a club down the Gold Coast if that's closer, SEQ FlyFishers. Also a really great bunch of guys.

Keep at it mate, it's the only "proper" way to fish

Cracking day on fly yesterday. Schools everywhere and eager. 

Eventually they started to shutdown so I just slowed the retrieve rate to suit.

Not that it's a contest but Dad (that's me) scored 30+ on fly whilst the boy only managed 9 on lures

You could replace your starter/house battery with a big deep cycle down the back. Just make sure you use heavy gauge wire (minimum 6AWG) up to the leccie as it draws lots of amps at full tilt.

I have the Bird 9 and love it. All sounders are good I think it's just personal preference and budget. Mine is linked to my Minn Kota which is even groover ( but that option mighty put you over there 1K mark on a 7.

Hey @Benasi

I've been a passenger in both boats and own a 5.5 Galey (so compeltely biase dof course).  The Haines is probably a better riding hull as it's also a bit heavier from memory but has lower freeboard. In the bay I'd feel safer in a Galey but it can be a bit wet.

In the dams, maybe the Haines as it won't be so wind effected.

To be honest, both are great, the older Galeys are a bit rough around the edges but probably cheaper to buy.

The Galey can run pretty shallow (~ a foot), not sure about the Haines.

Norm

Nice one mate. Good to see they're still around. What's your secret bait?

I use a 7000 for throwing 60-80 lures up on Fraser. Matched to a Snyderglas FSU 4120 rod. Perfect match and really cheap if you can find one.

Great stuff guys. I was on the Eastern side with similar results with a 43cm gold spot....yummy:)

Although the sledging was limited to fart jokes with three 15yo boys on board.

2 hours ago, Drop Bear said:

That's lousy! What was the fine etc. if you don't mind me asking? 

No fine, just being asshats by trying  to intimidate me. There was no legal reason I could see for being harassed, I was well outside the exclusion zone........or maybe the sudden appearance of a large moon got them all excited

That's what I was looking for

Nice fishes mate.

We popped out Saturday arvo from Fisherman's, (got charged by obviously very bored water cops for being too close to  the SS Reagan....). We were 30 metres away from the exclusions buoys by the way. Anyway the kids had some excitement.  

Picked up a reasonable Goldspot on a live Pike and a thousand baby Snaps and various on servo-prawns (kids loved that).

One son got a but queasy so we bailed before the sun went down too far over the horizon