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Sounds like a nice day out anyway Robbie regardless of the fish. in the end.
Pics are fine on my pc today but i have had issues before with your pics.

Nice feed of fish there, especially those Moses.
Cracking looking weather out there too.

Hey welcome back Henry.
It will be good to see you around the place again.
I hope the family is well mate.

Thanks Brian.
I think you may have been the very last AFO'er that I seen before this little issue popped up so I can blame you for it now,lol
Hopefully this will see the end of it for a while so a bit of recovery time ahead and then back in to it.
 

Thanks Brian.
I think you may have been the very last AFO'er that I seen before this little issue popped up so I can blame you for it now,lol
Hopefully this will see the end of it for a while so a bit of recovery time ahead and then back in to it.
 

Thanks Brian.
I think you may have been the very last AFO'er that I seen before this little issue popped up so I can blame you for it now,lol
Hopefully this will see the end of it for a while so a bit of recovery time ahead and then back in to it.
 

Thanks Brian.
I think you may have been the very last AFO'er that I seen before this little issue popped up so I can blame you for it now,lol
Hopefully this will see the end of it for a while so a bit of recovery time ahead and then back in to it.
 

The deep water game is going well mate, still out there till recently when that curb jumped up at me a couple of months ago again.
Iv'e just been relased from hospital on Monday night after a 23 day stay and some emergency brain surgery but hopefully things will be all good for a while now and in a couple of months time I will be back out there chasing something in the deepwater along the coast somewhere.

The deep water game is going well mate, still out there till recently when that curb jumped up at me a couple of months ago again.
Iv'e just been relased from hospital on Monday night after a 23 day stay and some emergency brain surgery but hopefully things will be all good for a while now and in a couple of months time I will be back out there chasing something in the deepwater along the coast somewhere.

Thanks Hamish

The deep water game is going well mate, still out there till recently when that curb jumped up at me a couple of months ago again.
Iv'e just been relased from hospital on Monday night after a 23 day stay and some emergency brain surgery but hopefully things will be all good for a while now and in a couple of months time I will be back out there chasing something in the deepwater along the coast somewhere.

The deep water game is going well mate, still out there till recently when that curb jumped up at me a couple of months ago again.
Iv'e just been relased from hospital on Monday night after a 23 day stay and some emergency brain surgery but hopefully things will be all good for a while now and in a couple of months time I will be back out there chasing something in the deepwater along the coast somewhere.

Hey welcome back Henry.
It will be good to see you around the place again.
I hope the family is well mate.

Kingfish are very susceptible to going soft if not iced down or slurried quick enough.
Opening the gut cavity and icing them down is a good way to treat Kings as you need to lower their core temp asap,much the same as Tuna.
The Kingfish that go soft after killing them is caused from an infection of microscopic Kudoa which lives in the flesh of the fish.
It gives the flesh a soft and mushy appearance which we call Milky Kingfish.
The parasite only causes the flesh to turn milky after the fish has died over a period of a few hours so there is no telling if the Kingy has it when you first catch the fish.
Icing the fish heavily as soon as you catch it is the only way to prevent the parasite from destroying the flesh but this does not always stop it if the infection is bad enough.
Once dead for a few hours you can tell by pressing firmly on the side of the fish in a fleshy area and you finger marks will remain as deep depressions in the flesh.
A good fish the depression will mostly disappear immediately.
When I fished for Kings commercially it was only 1 fish out of several hundred that we would find with this Kudoa Parasite and I would not know until we took the fish to the co op later that day as it took quite a few hours in the ice box for the parasite to do its work on the flesh.

Yes well that saves you stuffing the measurements up,lol.
Iv'e had at least half a dozen customers fit their rod holders at incorrect spacings now and the only way around it is to move the rod holders or build them a new board with leg spacings that fit their rod holders which costs them a lot more in the long run as it becomes a custom build.
So far only 1 guy has tried to blame me for his board not fitting his rod holders that he fitted himself, lol

Yes well that saves you stuffing the measurements up,lol.
Iv'e had at least half a dozen customers fit their rod holders at incorrect spacings now and the only way around it is to move the rod holders or build them a new board with leg spacings that fit their rod holders which costs them a lot more in the long run as it becomes a custom build.
So far only 1 guy has tried to blame me for his board not fitting his rod holders that he fitted himself, lol

That looks awesome Brian.
Good to see that you got the rod holder spacings correct, so many people miss it by this <-> much, lol.
As soon as those brackets come back into stock, I will shoot one straight over to you.

If anyone thinks that these are genuine Shimano reels, you will be horribly disappointed when or if they arrive.
These are chinese knockoffs and have been floating around for a while now.
Also be prepared for customs to sieze them if they suspect them to be Shimano copies.

Go for it Cam.
Pick your weather and you will have no issues at all going the the areas that you mentioned.

If anyone thinks that these are genuine Shimano reels, you will be horribly disappointed when or if they arrive.
These are chinese knockoffs and have been floating around for a while now.
Also be prepared for customs to sieze them if they suspect them to be Shimano copies.

If anyone thinks that these are genuine Shimano reels, you will be horribly disappointed when or if they arrive.
These are chinese knockoffs and have been floating around for a while now.
Also be prepared for customs to sieze them if they suspect them to be Shimano copies.

Nice bag of fish Jon considering the issues you had out there.
I imagine Shane's motor had a few hours up on her now, absolute shame but a new repower will be nice, especially for those long range trips.

Nice bag of fish Jon considering the issues you had out there.
I imagine Shane's motor had a few hours up on her now, absolute shame but a new repower will be nice, especially for those long range trips.

If your speedo only goes to 80kmh you will need to watch the speed on your GPS to see your proper speed readings.
The 0-80 graduations are a maximum reading for that guage so you cannot get any speed readings beyond the 80kmh.

Hi all
Today was the day I had my charter for my b'day. It was at the Gold Coast, around the Jumpinpin/GC Seaway area. I was fishing onboard Coastal Spot Fishing Safaris, which is owned by Thomas Seabach. It was my third time going out with him.  We certainly had our hopes high, as each other time it had been great fishing. Here is a link to their website - 
http://www.coastalsportsfishing.com.au/
I went to bed early last night so I could wake up early, as we were driving there in the morning. I managed to wake myself twice over the night, once at 11:00PM, and the other time at 3:30AM. My clock eventually went off though, at 4:30AM. After preparing everything, we were out of the house by five. It took a bit over an hour to get there, and we were eventually at the Runaway Bay boat ramp, waiting for Thomas. 
He got there, at 6:30AM on the dot, and we were on the water at about quarter to seven. The first part of the day was to catch live bait. We motored into the first location, and saw some rises, but unfortunately after he did a few casts of the net we had nothing, so to the next canal we went. Yep, you guessed it - nothing after about 20 more minutes in this canal... We finally found an OK spot, up one of the side canals. As well as herring, there were some big mullet being chased, and something really big chasing them. Jack? Trevally? 
Bait was eventually caught, which consisted of some big herring and a lone silver biddy. We motored out to the first spot, the GC Seaway (mouth). It wasn't very nice here, but I was feeling OK. I dropped the first bait down, and in about ten minutes, I got a good hit. It either spat the hook, or I pulled the hook, but no hook hooked it. I was told it was most likely to be a jew, because of the strike. Bugger! I really wanted a legal jew today. 

Something far smaller began picking it after, and I set my circle hook in the mouth of a bream. It wasn't that big, 26cm, but we like our bream, and while we get little meat off it, it is still good. I quickly pulled up another one, but it was to borderline to keep so back he went. My dad had still gotten nothing - surprising. This spot we normally pull up lots of big, solid, breambos but right now, it was quiet. 

At least i got something! 
I started to feel sick, and since it was just us onboard, and i was told to go back if I even felt slightly crook, we reeled our lines in and went to drift for flatties. My dad's line actually had a small one on, which turned out to be a sand flathead. Cool! That was the first one of them I've ever seen. 
At flatty spot number one, we managed a grand total of... Nothing! 🙂 The guide was flicking a little blade, while we were still drifting. He managed a couple though. A flatty, one or two centimetres under legal size, and a flounder, which unfortunately spat the hook as it was coming into the boat. The next spot was similar for us,  but there was still some action. Thomas was getting the odd hit on his lure, and while I was caught off guard my line went off. I missed the strike completely though, and lost what would've been an OK fish. Sigh! 
The last spot we shot off to was another flat area. Thomas said there is good structure, weed patches, that is. That means it's good for squid, as well as flatties. We started our drift, and down went our live herrings. It was quiet for quite a while, and we had some choc-chip biccies,  but then I got a hit. I struck hard, and probably started pulling up my catch to eagerly. It just so happens this was a squid, and the second it saw us, it dropped the hook 😠. It was apparently an OK one too. (Thomas saw it). I love calamari. That was disappointing. We kept up the drift though, and in the last five minutes of the days session, I struck, and I WAS ON! Woohoo. A short fight ensured an OK flatty coming up, which looked very borderline legal. We measured it, and it was 38cm... Ahh, that was disappointing. One keeper for the whole day! 

It wasn't happy to see us - tried to run away from the boat twice! (On the surface!). 
We got back to the ramp, and I took out the left over herring (not many) for freezer baits. We chucked the bream and herring in the esky, and after saying thank you and our goodbye's to Thomas, we went on the journey home. It really was a nice day out. Just enough wind to keep us at a good temperature, good boat, good food... The only disappointing thing was that we struck out on the fish 😞. 

Me looking depressed with a 26cm keeper 😞 
I cleaned the fish when I got home, which is pretty hard when it is so small. In hindsight, I should've scaled, gutted, and just kept the rest of the body on the maximise meat but I knocked some fillets off and did a dodgy bone removal job. I need to improve my filleting! 

(Tomorrow's dinner)
Here are the stats of the trip - 
Trip stats - 
Tide: High tide, 8:35AM, 1.26M, Low tide, 3:10PM, .37M
Moon Phase: 56% full, so not the strongest run
Tackle used: I'm unsure on most of it, but we had large-small ball sinkers (depending on current), small circle hooks, and small lines. 
Fish caught: Yellowfin Bream x 2, Sand Flathead x 1, Dusky Flathead x 2, Flounder x 1
Bait caught: Herring and biddy
Bait used: Herring
Water Temp: 17.5 degrees Celsius
Air Pressure: 1017
Overall Success Rate: 50% - A good day out at least
Hope you all enjoyed this report, because it'd done now. We certainly didn't do as good as expected, but at least we got onto a couple of fish in the whole day. Sadly for me, my hols are over, but they's been great fun, with lots of fishing... Oh yeah, and there are still three mor BR sessions to be reported (not that they are that exciting though). 
Cheers Hamish 🙂