benno573

Wow mate. Tough day at the office for sure. Maybe the forecast rain in coming days will fire them up. 🤞

Went out with a couple of mates on Tuesday in my mate’s new boat. He wanted to get some hours up on the new motor. So the plan was to tour Moreton Bay and drop a line every now and again. 
Left Victoria Point at the gentleman o’clock (8.30am) to a moderate SW breeze and did a bit of running around the southern Bay Islands. Stopped at one of them for a fish around the last of the run out tide, with a few undersize squire coming over the gunnel and lots of pickers. Moved to Peel where there were more unders before finally boating a legal squire. Only 40cm but we were off the donut. 
Did a lap of Peel, then headed to Blakesleys for a lunch stop and stretch the legs. Then up past Dunwich for a cruise to check out the bar. No intention of crossing, just sightseeing. Saw some dolphins working in the shallows in the exact spot where I saw dolphins herding a school of snapper a few years ago. On the way up we saw a few boats circling around an area in the Rainbow Channel. We thought why should they have all the fun, so motored over and started trolling hard bodies. No luck. I had one paravane in the tacklebox so threw that out and had instant success. Caught 2 decent macs in quick succession, then handed the rod to my mate who dropped 3 in a row. Just unlucky, I guess.
Then as he was dropping the paravane back into the water it was hit before it went more than 10 metres. Fish on before a strange thing happened. The rod tip started bouncing in a weird way for a couple of seconds before the line went slack. The 40lb almost brand new braid had parted just back behind the boat. We can only assume, there was a fish on the spoon, but something else hit the braid accidentally and did the damage? In any case, my only paravane was gone and didn’t float to the top, so if you catch a mackerel in the Bay and there is a paravane attached, let me know. Shame because there was not shortage of hits to keep us entertained.
We headed for home after that. My mate was happy, s few hours up on the motor and some blood in the new boat. We each had a fish for dinner and it was a great day to tour the Bay.
Thanks for reading.
 

they did.  they just were answering a different question. 😆

the red rock cod / scorpion fish are very tasty but certainly require care when filleting.
good to get a few different species there.

the red rock cod / scorpion fish are very tasty but certainly require care when filleting.
good to get a few different species there.

the red rock cod / scorpion fish are very tasty but certainly require care when filleting.
good to get a few different species there.

the red rock cod / scorpion fish are very tasty but certainly require care when filleting.
good to get a few different species there.

the red rock cod / scorpion fish are very tasty but certainly require care when filleting.
good to get a few different species there.

they did.  they just were answering a different question. 😆

nice one mate.  great day at "work" in anyone's books.

nice one mate.  great day at "work" in anyone's books.

nice one mate.  great day at "work" in anyone's books.

they did.  they just were answering a different question. 😆

Having seen today's forecast on Monday, the descion was made to dodge work & head out for a fish, no brainer really. The conditions were prime, albeit a touch brisk,  I made the call to venture up to Harry's in search of a Snapper.

I worked the first spot with the ever faithful pink grub for a couple of hours but couldn't manage anything other than a foul hooked winter whiting, as tempting as it was to rig him up as a live bait I decided against it as it would've required re rigging a rod, and the feeling in my fingers wasn't quite there yet.
With the tide having turned, I motored off to another spot and sent down a lightly weighted 5" plastic, it got hit on the way down and after a brief tussle up popped a nice Squire.

Into the esky he went, I stayed for another hour or so before heading down to West Peel to try my luck. Having left my sunnies in my car I didn't want to be out for too long squinting today so a few drifts through a section of West Peel produced a couple more nice fish, a few undersized, and a just legal one that I didn't need to keep, the chase bait flick prawn did all the damage through there, great fun on a 6lb setup

All in all, it was a fun little session and by mid morning the Bay had completely smoothed off making for a quick run back to the ramp.

they did.  they just were answering a different question. 😆

they did.  they just were answering a different question. 😆

my whole work life is dealing with truckwits... NOTHING would surprise me mate... 

awesome stuff mate.  well worth the frost bite on the beard for those.

my whole work life is dealing with truckwits... NOTHING would surprise me mate... 

my whole work life is dealing with truckwits... NOTHING would surprise me mate... 

awesome stuff mate.  well worth the frost bite on the beard for those.

awesome stuff mate.  well worth the frost bite on the beard for those.

awesome stuff mate.  well worth the frost bite on the beard for those.

Just found some lost videos on my phone, I'll post a couple over the next few weeks   , here's one  spinning for Tailor at Fraser Island last August using my faithful old 499 Mitchell Spinning  Reel  , Live Fibre Surf Rod and a 85g Raider lure.
Enjoy me nearly falling over dragging it up the beach.
Neil
 
 
Tailor sm.mp4

Oh don't worry, I remember... still plotting my revenge.
great fish there though guys, you didn't try the fugu on the BBQ as well @AUS-BNE-FISHO?