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You can cook for me anything Robbie

For an alround fish definitely a red emperor they are brutes to fight and sensational to eat so it is at the top of my list for sure

Yeah toss up between trout and red emperor for my favourite table fish

That's how you blood in a new boat with mackerel well done

That will be 1 trip to remember I bet the arms are a bit longer now

My boat has a toilet it's called a bucket

Thanks Kelvin would love a boat like that but till then my tinnie still gets me where I want to go.

Thanks Robbie I did explain the wind at night we get normally but it just stayed mint the whole trip

Plenty on our sounder to just wouldn't chew.

Thanks natang

What little wind was from the north west that could account for the deep water turned off. Otherwise we weren't to disappointed about the fishing.

Headed up to 1770 with a mate in his boat on Thursday destined for a few days on the great barrier Reef. We stayed in town that night got all the fuel and ice topped up then left the ramp early Friday. The forecast was for great weather and we weren't disappointed, my mates 670 Bar crusher cruised easily to our fishing grounds. We dropped baits down and were rewarded with a few good tuskies and red throat emperor on our early spots. It was Graham's 1st time up there so a lot of the fish were PBs then he bagged his 1st coral trout. The fishing continued at a steady pace of quality fish caught, we went wide looking for red emperor but found the deeper reefs dead. Back in closer it picked up again and mid afternoon the trout really come on along with quality red throat that Graham couldn't believe how hard these fish fight all the way to the boat. Before the sun set we anchored up on a nice reef drop off in a sheltered position behind the reef. The red throat emperor and Moses perch got thick after dark and we had some fun in the shallows. We put some floating pillies out for a Spanish Mackerel on dusk but that didn't turn a reel. The next morning we headed out deep again but it was still shut down so reefs under 50m were where the fish was. By late morning we decided to run down to Fitzroy lagoon for lunch and a swim. We hooked up to a mooring bout and jumped straight in. Graham didn't want to leave and sat on his duck board legs in the water knocking back a few cold beers. We finally left heaven and headed back to the ramp at 30 knots and stayed another night in town before driving home. received_839565710237602.mp4 Already can't wait till I'm back on the reef.

Fitzroy lagoon at its best in the Bunker group on the Great Barrier Reef was our last stop before heading back to the ramp.

Thanks Hamish

That's awesome congrats on your PB, I'm going up there soon but it will be cooling off by then.

That boat would be a good fishing platform

It sure is Kelvin

Flat pack I have for the van

Went to a camp called trinity islands at Burrum heads for a week. It is a 100 acre property on the Burrum river but has a man made lake that spans a bit over 11 acres. There was 4 caravans in our crew and we all camped together. There are 3 islands left in the middle of the lake with land bridges' so you can camp on them. The lake is stocked with yellow belly and barramundi but as we found the tilapia were easier to catch. We fished the river with our kayaks and got plenty of bream but this trip was more about just chilling by the lake and river. We did get offshore as a mate brought up a big boat that 4 of us fished the southern gutters up in northern Hervey bay. Here we caught grassy sweetlip, stripies, spangled emperor and lost good coral trout to sharks. We did barefoot bowls 1 arvo and had a blast in town followed by a top feed at the club. We did see the barra in the lake and could here them at night as we sat around the camp fire each night. We went to Hervey bay for a day walked out to the end of Urangan pier, took the young kids to the water park and hung out at the beach. I would recommend this camp ground to anyone they supply kayaks for each camp to use on the lake.

Getting closer for me to get up your way now Callum fingers crossed for some good weather

Awesome colours on those cod I've seen them in photos but yet to catch 1 I reckon it's the boats fish to be shared.

That's an awesome day on the briney happy birthday, a birthday milestone and some fishing ones to.

I got the Navionics HD app brilliant on large devices like tablets or iPads and you can share between devices so I have it on my phone, my son's phone and my Samsung 10inch tablet all on the 1 subscription. It automatically sends our marks between devices would not be without now.

I love Amity and miss the trips over there every year in winter renting a house for a week in Amity.