aussie123

2 minutes ago, Drop Bear said:

Hopefully it will be good after Tuesday. 

We can only hope Robbie but it looks like a pretty big Southerley change is going to move in mid week at this stage.

5 hours ago, Hweebe said:

@aussie123 just checked out your reeltackle site, will definitely be scoping out what gear i need from there. Site says 12th June and 21st June you will be away. Fishing Trip?

Yes mate, we are heading up to 1770 on Friday for about 10 days of windy crappy looking fishing, lol

Yes we went out deep Hamish.

The fishing was tough but we found a few in the end.

1 hour ago, Ariat Fishing said:

Thanks Aussie - I was wondering how boats at the shelf stayed out at night in such deep water. I'm going to head out to the shelf soon and try for some Blues and maybe on good calm days venture a little wider than the Canyons and Neverfail and look for some Yellowfin.

Water conditions were nice on Sunday with tons of bait everywhere so there should be some Yellowfin out there now.

We never bother to come back in and anchor up for the night.

If we are fishing the shelf in 300m we just shut the engines down and drift for the night unless there is too much current so then we will come in to 60-70m and drop anchor for the night.

Same goes for up North when fishing the reefs off 1770, we anchor up in 60m and chase reds for the night.

7 minutes ago, kmcrosby78 said:

Rub it in Lance ........ 

Sorry Kelvin, lol

1 minute ago, tugger said:

We will show them when we take the bonito up north Lance

Definitely will Mark, we will convert them to red fish.

It's about time Captain Ted got out for a fish although I am surprised (dissapointed) that there is no spew video to watch.

Next time take him to boat rock 

You can tell who catches stuff all fish around here, they all eat the bait 

The main thing out there is your anchor and chain as that is what is going to stop you from drifting, especially after a tide change when your boat changes direction.

I prefer an anchor that is one size bigger than recommended for the boat length plus a boat length of 10mm short link anchor chain.

It may be heavy to pull back up but it is far better than having to reset the anchor in the middle of the night, especially if the wind comes away and it gets rough out there.

If you are anchoring offshore, make sure your all round white light is nice and high and bright so other vessels as well as ships can easily see you.

Also let out plenty of rope to reduce the chance of popping the anchor through the night.

Set your drift alarm on the GPS, cook up a feed, have a few drinks and enjoy the night.

24 minutes ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Hey Hweebe

I wish I was, but I am pretty much powerless to go much further than a couple Kilometre's away from a boat ramp as we are yak based. Good luck when you go out tomorrow

Hey aussie123

Just a question, what will you be targeting tomorrow? Will you be going for deep water species or pelagics? 

Cheers Hamish  

Deep water species Hamish.

We will mostly target Bar Cod and depending on how they are biting as well as the wind and tide we may pop out deeper for a few drops on the Blue Eye and Bass Groper.

1 minute ago, Hweebe said:

Hey @aussie123 still learning our craft for both boating and fishing so sticking to inshore for now but definitely looking to head outside after we have earned our stripes.

Definitely wise to start inshore while getting used to things out there.

We are going deep tomorrow so we will be about 35km outside of Moreton for the day if this wind decides to back off tonight.

We are heading out tomorrow but we will be heading offshore from Moreton.

I cannot see the pictures. 

It would depend on your trailer setp and how much weight you are pulling Brian.

Personally I would probably ask Ray what his winch is as I think it is a cheaper Ebay winch but it has performed brilliantly over a number of years now.

These ones are a new product so I have not even had a chance to look at one yet so I honestly could not recommend them yet.

Currently I only have the more expensive Powerwinches on the website but there is 2 new winches that have just become available so they are not on the website yet.

Check out these 2 links on the importers website.

RELAXN® ELECTRIC WINCH - BOAT TRAILER - 2000LB (907KG) $155.00

https://www.samallen.com.au/index_inner.php?page=100003&searchType=&search=&itemID=17319&category=4

RELAXN® ELECTRIC WINCH - BOAT TRAILER - 3500LB (1588KG)  $190.00

https://www.samallen.com.au/index_inner.php?page=100003&searchType=&search=&category=4&itemID=17320&part=542822

6 minutes ago, ellicat said:

I'll remeasure it first thing tomorrow and let you know early if there's any change. Thanks again.

No worries.

2 minutes ago, ellicat said:

Thanks Lance. I just went and measured it in the dark and I'm pretty sure it's only 6mm, which is what I ordered.

Too easy mate, I will get that out tomorrow for you.

Looks like freezer burn on what we call a Coral Prawn. They are bycatch when trawling for School Prawns in the shallower waters.

I have a brand new Bee's Knees Reel Spooler with the Base Plate that you can have for $140 delivered.

Remember you still have the 1.5m distancing rules on a boat so most tinnies are still only you plus one other OR a group from the same household.

There is still some confusion about numbers of people on boats as some are classing a boat as an enclosed area so same rules apply as being indoors.

Also be vary wary of anything QLD Fisheries are posting up as they have been wrong on a number of occasions.

Right now I am trying to find out the law for travelling outside the current 50km radius as QLD Fisheries have just publicly stated that we can travel further than 50km (Brisbane to 1770) for essential food gathering to feed our families but when I spoke to both the Police and Water Police today, they flatley said no and that QLD Fisheries have got it wrong again.

Water Police directed me to the QLD Health website where I can submit a question to get an answer to my original question and what ever QLD Health say is what the current law is regardless of what Fisheries and the Police say.

I will post up the reply from QLD Health once I hear back from them.

Below is the reply that I recieved from QLF Fisheries 2 days ago.

Fisheries Queensland Lance. 

Hi Lance,

Please see advice from Queensland Health. If you are leaving the house to fish for essential reasons and it is necessary to feed your family, you are permitted to travel over the permitted 50 km, but you must use common sense.

2 minutes ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Hey aussie123

Thanks for that, I can now see how you mean the fading away of bands on one and how they look.

Cheers Hamish  

Yes Hamish, the Greys tend to fade right out after dying where as the Spanish stay much brighter.

Often they are very hard to tell the difference and we were letting all the Spanish go the day we caught these fish but several Spanish found their way into the box by mistaken identity.

We also let go a lot of possible large Greys that day that we could not really identify properly without killing them first so better to be alive and swimming than dead and wasted.

These are definitely not schoolies.

I just found some rough kill shots that show spanish, greys and schoolies all mixed in so you can get an idea on their differences when they are chilling out together.

Benno the Grey Macks have the spanish like bars instead of spots. 

They are often very hard to tell apart from normal Spanish when they first come onto the boat but once they die, the bars on the Greys fade badly where as the bars on the Spanish stay nice and bright.