Old Scaley

Note for future generations of AFO members.
Just for the record, all of the above fish were caught by me, except for those where other people are showing in the photo. 
cheers
Greg

Not jealous, Ted. Really, not jealous! Well, maybe just a little. 

Not jealous, Ted. Really, not jealous! Well, maybe just a little. 

If you know someone with the same unit, see if you could plug your head unit into their transducer. Then you will know where the problem originates. 

Roosters played as well as I have seen them for a few years and luck didn’t follow the Broncos. Seems like the way to beat them is to get off to a hot start and play up tempo football. They still get a bit rattled when they aren’t controlling the pace of the game. Early days yet. Plenty of feeling in that match should make for an interesting rematch, especially if the grub (Hargreaves) is not suspended at the time. 

Roosters played as well as I have seen them for a few years and luck didn’t follow the Broncos. Seems like the way to beat them is to get off to a hot start and play up tempo football. They still get a bit rattled when they aren’t controlling the pace of the game. Early days yet. Plenty of feeling in that match should make for an interesting rematch, especially if the grub (Hargreaves) is not suspended at the time. 

If you know someone with the same unit, see if you could plug your head unit into their transducer. Then you will know where the problem originates. 

Getting some serious boat envy with @Cobiaaddict and @GregOug upgrading their boats. Some seriously nice rigs. Might need to start a new post to gather ideas from AFO members on how to fund my next boat....
Anyone know anything about crypto 😀, NFTs, ETFs, Shares, Debt recycling, Investing or just general financial planning for a new boat? I wonder if a boat is allowable as a lump sump payment from super?

Once you reach your allocated retirement age and have actually retired you can use all your super if you wish. Mind you, you’d then have to depend on catching a lot of fish in order to keep eating!

Not jealous, Ted. Really, not jealous! Well, maybe just a little. 

Yeah baby !!

Had a very unexpected catch today, I got a big hit while dead sticking a hardbody, big head shake followed by a powerful pull, I was expecting a cod but ended up landing a damn carp.
I've never caught one on a big hard body like that before, I guess things are getting hungry.

 

Cracker boat! Cracker fish! Nothing more to be said. 

Cracker boat! Cracker fish! Nothing more to be said. 

Cracker boat! Cracker fish! Nothing more to be said. 

Cracker boat! Cracker fish! Nothing more to be said. 

Normally shallow fried in panko crumbs ,  but of late we have been cooking them in coconut cream with Thai green curry paste and putting the fillets in oven 

Cracker boat! Cracker fish! Nothing more to be said. 

Few more pics from this Saturday just gone, this one went 9.4kg 

We head out today with Declan to make the most of the fortnight he is up.  The forecast was somewhat confounded for Wednesday. I got up at 3.30am and checked the live readings and the Bom Radar and nearly called it. I stayed true and we head out. It was a little lumpy going out, but that was the worst of it and it was a beautiful day and a lot better then the forecasts.  We fished in a lot of depths and the bite was difficult, the almanac did say it was going to be a poor day.  When we did manage to hook up, the Taxman 🦈 took his cut very quickly which gave us a lot of frustration.   
Anyway Declan caught his PB Red Bass and pulled out of 135m, manually. He was puffing a bit when he got it up.  It is a pitty that we can not eat these fish on the East Coast.

Well done. I think you managed to catch plenty of other people's Christmas too😜👍

My boys came up for Christmas. They where supposed to fly into cairns the day Jasper hit the coast but they managed to fly in on the Thursday before the airport flooded.  
 
We sat around the house for a week watching the rain and the mould grow and we head out on the first day we could get out. The almanac was telling us it was going to be good and boy we could not go wrong. We hit the known grounds for the first two days landing several Nannies and an awesome dogtooth tuna on a light 20lb outfit. 
 
For the  third day out Declan wanted to chase some Reds. Not having any ground off Cairns, we went prospecting and we found some incredible ground  

All,
Got the new boat on the water end of October 2023 and what a ride it's been, done plenty of trips to break her in, mainly chasing squid and chasing Tuskies which I loved doing in my teens with my Dad.
1st trip was on the tuskies was 2 weeks before I got my boat,  i headed out with a good mate in his boat to see if any of my old hunting grounds still held the elusive blackspot and wouldn't you know it 2nd drop with a rather large sleepy crab wich spells big trouble at this spot in some rather ordinary seas off Moreton Island I was on,  under locked drag, with 80lb braid and 120lb leader I was hooked up to a dinosaur of a blackspot Tuskfish that was running hard for the coffee rock ledge, after some very intense spool thumbing and some grunting I'd managed to to turn this fish and have it heading my way until it decided it wanted that rock some more ,  with a few ugly rod angles and a few more grunts I managed to get him boat side for netting and my 1st blackspot in 20 + yrs was on the floor of the boat and we was in absolute awe of the colours this fish went, ended weighing in at a modest 10.2kg after being bled. 
Enough rambling, I'll let everyone enjoy the pics
Cheers Josh <><
 

Information I could have used this morning 😂 Anyway here is a pic of a 35cm bream caught today. So good to have photos back. 

Nice tub Greg, looked at buying one myself but I was just on $210,000 short so settled for a 4.2mtr Renegade, also it would be somewhat of a problem getting too far up Ningi Ck, even on high tide, hope you catch plenty