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More traffic on the water and a growing whale population. 
 

More traffic on the water and a growing whale population. 
 

More traffic on the water and a growing whale population. 
 

What don't you like about your motorguide? 

Nooice. I have a xi5 going on this week 😁

I would have gone motorguide as well to link up with my HDS live however in a cabin boat i wanted auto deploy so had to go minn kota.
 

Nooice. I have a xi5 going on this week 😁

Hardest part is going to be deciding where to fish. 

Hardest part is going to be deciding where to fish. 

Hardest part is going to be deciding where to fish. 

Hardest part is going to be deciding where to fish. 

Hardest part is going to be deciding where to fish. 

Form ply mate, lasts almost forever. 

Form ply mate, lasts almost forever. 

Hi All
 
Since Saturdays looking like it's going to be a cracker, I'm looking at streching my comfort zone a little and heading off to fish the reeds of cape moreton.
 
I've done a few trips over to moreton (tangalooma) and i've done the **** 2.5 hour trip back in garbage weather. But I'm wondering based on what the Winds doing Saturday 5~10 knots westelys swinging to northlys, if I trip like that would be worth it? 
 
Should add i've got a 04' 5.2 formosa
 
 

Just the one school mac. Plenty of current, hard to stay on the bottom in 20m of water. 

Just the one school mac. Plenty of current, hard to stay on the bottom in 20m of water. 

@benno573
Managed to go out on Saturday without a drama. I used about a tank which is 70l for 120k's of travel. I did suggest to the wife about sleeping the night @ bulwar, but didn't. However comming across the bay at 3 in the morning. There we so many boats anchored up for the night it looked like christmas lights on the water. 
 
Conditions were great, was a bit lumpy out on the reefs. 

@benno573
Managed to go out on Saturday without a drama. I used about a tank which is 70l for 120k's of travel. I did suggest to the wife about sleeping the night @ bulwar, but didn't. However comming across the bay at 3 in the morning. There we so many boats anchored up for the night it looked like christmas lights on the water. 
 
Conditions were great, was a bit lumpy out on the reefs. 

@benno573
Managed to go out on Saturday without a drama. I used about a tank which is 70l for 120k's of travel. I did suggest to the wife about sleeping the night @ bulwar, but didn't. However comming across the bay at 3 in the morning. There we so many boats anchored up for the night it looked like christmas lights on the water. 
 
Conditions were great, was a bit lumpy out on the reefs. 

@benno573
Managed to go out on Saturday without a drama. I used about a tank which is 70l for 120k's of travel. I did suggest to the wife about sleeping the night @ bulwar, but didn't. However comming across the bay at 3 in the morning. There we so many boats anchored up for the night it looked like christmas lights on the water. 
 
Conditions were great, was a bit lumpy out on the reefs. 

@benno573
Managed to go out on Saturday without a drama. I used about a tank which is 70l for 120k's of travel. I did suggest to the wife about sleeping the night @ bulwar, but didn't. However comming across the bay at 3 in the morning. There we so many boats anchored up for the night it looked like christmas lights on the water. 
 
Conditions were great, was a bit lumpy out on the reefs. 

70l,  but on bigger trips like that i'd take a 20l spare, mabye a second. 
Worst case, See half left on the guage and turn around with a jerry spare (good ol' Jerry) 

70l,  but on bigger trips like that i'd take a 20l spare, mabye a second. 
Worst case, See half left on the guage and turn around with a jerry spare (good ol' Jerry) 

Well I am back and may edit this post as there is SO much to cover...
The trip was amazing and so much more than I hoped it would be. Baia is simply phenomenal offering so many river and bluewater opportunities. The lodge itself was top notch and the fishing was out of this world. Way more surface action than the last trip as well which is always a highlight.
Sef, Henry and myself headed to the furthermost river for our first days foray to cast up some blacks... The blacks were there in good numbers and so were a lot of quality jacks...


On the way to the Torio there were also some good bluewater captures including mahi mahi and yellow fin...

The next day we hit the Pandi which turned out to be a river we frequented. This river is ALL about the surface with log jams and lay downs everywhere making throwing diving lures tough. Although there were plenty of blacks at the mouth, this river was home to tonnes of monster spot tails as well...

After spot tail mania we had a fairly so so day in the Langa Langa river. Awesome hits but conversions to big bass were a little slow. In saying that we did have some fun out the front among some birds hooking into countless trevs, queenies and mack tuna.

So for our last day we decided to once again concentrate on the Pandi River. More spot tails abounded but you have seen enough of those, I will out up however Henry's beast and the biggest for the trip. If things were recorded this could easily be a world record as Henry caught in on a 8/14lb Nordic Stage Cheater with a 2500 sized reel and 16lb braid. Just unheard of over there. The guide said not only was it one of the lightest rods he had ever had in the boat... It was the largest spot tail bass he had ever seen. It measured in at 36.5lb (not a guess actually weighed).

After the trip had officially ended Henry and I were lucky enough to stay on for two more nights as guests of Riccard the owner of Baia.
We headed up into the headwaters of the Kulu river on the first day and caught a collection of JP's and Spot Tails on bream sized gear (actually our new prototype Nordic Stage Loki rods). This was heaps of fun and ended in a blow up mattress ride back down the river selectively ignoring the warming signs...

Our last day was spent bluewater and snorkeling. Some good trevs and doggies were hooked with smaller ones coming in. I was grossly under gunned for doggies but it was fun to give it a crack! Snorkeling was just world class.

And that was that! Back to the real world!
After a few early inquiries it looks like I will be doing this again in 2016 so feel free to contact me if you are keen to get on board.
 
Cheers.
 
Angus