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Hi All, Quick report, Headed out the other night to try for a another snapper & to see if I could get one a bit closer to that magical double digit mark, Left the Ramp at 5.30 and on anchor just after 6pm, Had the whole place to ourselves Started to deploy the burley and 20minutes later the first fish hit the deck nice snapper around 83cm - Things where looking good, Kept plugging away and releasing another 6 fish in the high 70cm bracket. , we re-anchored after the tide changed and started the burley and putting baits back out and the decky's rod goes of very slowly, Sets the hook and just about get pulled out the back with serious fish running hard for the ledge. My 1st thought was a shark but the tell tale sign of a nice snapper started in the rod tip. Decky sorted it out pretty quick and I slid the net under another good fish. This was somewhere in the 94cm back, and went 8.2kg on the lie detector, Thing didn't fit in the 80L esky. Race home on a glassed out bay around 10pm... Hope you all took advantage of the good weather over the weekend. Cheers Josh <><

Nice sounder shot mate, it will be interesting to see what you can catch off it .

Mate it was devastating, nothing worse,

Water Police have been grabbing every body mate, they have boarded me 3 times in 3 Trips, Last Saturday & Sunday night as well as Friday night just gone. Cant seem to get away from them, Cant wait to get my kids out on the water more often, they love eating fish, just no so keen on going fishing ,

Least you caught something , its a hard place to work out and go to at the correct time, even then those times you can catch more sharks than ever, Unlucky with the water police mate, I have had 3 visits in my last three trip from them.

Thanks mate, How many did you get. ?

Floatlining baits using a 1 , 2 or 3ball sinker depending on tidal flow and just keep letting line out with the current.

Yeah mate 1st time at this spot we have had a snapper sharked and we suspect it was a tiger shark approx 11-12ft judging by the bite radius on the half snapper

Plenty of sharks there mate. That's the main species that frequent that area and there generally too big to put in the boat. Search the outside edge areas of the sink hole drop off as there are few nice little ledges and rocks that produce fish. But it's a tough area to work out and find success at.

Hi all. Headed out after work last night with a mate to see if the snapper where still around. Launched at 5.30pm and on the anchor by 6pm burleying up and putting some baits out. Took about 1hr but slowly they the came on the chew Caught 6 around the 70-75cm mark with 4 being released. Then the sharks rocked up and took the body of a solid fish in the mid 7kg bracket. So we up anchored and headed for home as we didn't want to see any more fish destroyed by sharks. Good to spend a few hours on the water again. Hope to get out again in the coming days. cheers Josh <><

Thanks @Poddymullet bag limits limited us to keeping any of the other fish , But normally this area will only produce 1 or 2 good fish in a session. Fished the SE area of the Bay mate, Glad you like the photo ,

Good mixed bag mate, those spangles go hard hey, Would had been a interesting experience watching the whales

Lucky he left a few minutes before I did, LOL

Haha , the guys in the small 4m tinny in the back ground pics who rocked up at the same time I was anchoring had followed me from jigging live bait grounds and anchored to the west of me and fished and I did not see them turn a reel all arvo. . I think they where swearing at us when I was throwing 5kg snapper back because we couldn't keep anymore. Whole yakkas , rigged on single 10/0 Gamakatsu Octopus hooks, on 30lb & 40lb mono mainlines,

definitely, not one fish come on live bait or fresh dead bait,

all fish come on yakkas that had been sitting in the bottom of my freezer for over 12 months, they smelt really bad once they had thoued out.

Hi All, Its been a while since my last fishing post and a long time since I last had a fish to be honest I think Australia Day was my last fish . Headed out with a mate from Tasmania who has not ever caught a decent shallow water bay snapper before , So the pressure was on . Lucky me, with literally months off the water and know knowledge of fish on the chew any where the search was on. Headed out for a quick bay snapper session Saturday arvo leaving Clontarf around just after 1pm to grab some live baits and then find some nice hard rubble bottom to anchor up on and burley in hope of a July snapper, After spending a couple of hours searching for live baits and finding some nice rubble bottom with a little drop off we anchored up about 3.45pm and started to burley up , send some baits back hoping some fish would come on the chew, After waiting close to 1hr (5pm), the 1st rod got lit up and the decky was into a nice fish with good head shakes, few tense moment as the fish ran for drop off with great intent , but some nice rod work and Ben had his head turned and coming to the boat nicely, few more small runs and I slid the net under a great fish , as we were dehooking this fish and getting ready for a few happy snaps - the other bait-runner went off hard , so I set the hook with it still in the rod holder - struggling to get this one out of the holder, I was now onto another nice fish which I felt running hard along the bottom almost straight away., after some back and forth action I slowly had nice snapper in the net and on the deck of the boat yay me, trip successful, So we quickly rest the baits and went about a few photos, after getting a shot of Ben holding both fish , both rods went off again with a big double hook up on 2 more cracking snapper at 75 & 78cm - which went back - I went checked the esky had a quick measure and with a 81cm & 84cm in the ice box I realized we where wasting out time. Ben had set another 2 baits out and whilst holding my Snapper for a photo we had another double hook up, Ill put the photo up of myself looking away at the back of the boat holding my fish with a concerned look of holy geeeeezzzzz. . We had another crazy 20minutes with about 5 more fish hooked and released totaling 11 for the session and taking the 1st 2 home for a feed, Both fish weight 6.0kg & 6.1Kg . Hope you all enjoy the read Cheers Josh <><

Freeboard is good mate, Some might say a little shallow but I found reaching over the side to gaff or net fish to be a good height , The extra wide deck gunnels make you feel safer also

BMT trailer packer is 1230Kg, Very soft riding boat mate, little wet in side on stuff, 45Degree Dead Rise in the mid ship & 21Degree @ Transom I fished all winter for bay snapper in conditions up-to 20knots with out an issue, Traveling around 32-35km per hour in head and following seas, If you fill the water ballast your will do 40kmph easy and could push a lot harder if you like. 100ltr tank of fuel will see 220-235km pretty easy at 42km cruise speed with 3 POB,

I know a lot of people who would like to keep it in there back yard and take good care of it while we are away, Yeah Camper trailer with boat on top of that or a roof top tinny,

HI All, Its a bit unfortunate , but putting the Surtees up for sale , Going back to a small 12-13ft tinny for the next few years and saving up for a 21-24ft Hard Top of some description, Also going around Australia for 6-7 Month's and cant take it to most locations we are heading. Details as Follows 2017 Surtees 575 Profisher Centre Console ( 5.75m of 18ft 3inch) 2017 115 Yamaha 4-Stroke approx. 60Hrs ( just had annual service) Lowrance HDS 9 Sounder with Total Scan Transducer Lowrance Elite 9ti GPS with Navionics Card 100lt Fuel Tank Live Bank Tank Reef Anchor with float retrieval , Over sized Danforth Anchor, 250m Rope & 8m of Chain 2 x large kill tanks Approx. 150lts in total Epirb and All Safety Gear ( Life Jackets, V-sheet etc. ) Rego just renewed till August 2020 PM me if you want more info or contact Can arrange water test , no tyre kickers please Neg: $55,000 Cheers Josh <><