Junky

You have marks for wonky holes? Keep that quiet....although I'm happy to review them. I live in Brisbane so no chance of me fishing there, often. Like DB said...you should be slaughtering the fish. Rigs. Float lining on the drift is imo the best way to fish because I hate pulling anchors in and plastics work better on the drift. Also....you'd be surprised how many (honey pots) or good spots you will find when drifting. Check the sounder every 30sec or so when drifting. I tie about a rod length of leader onto the end of my braid using the FG knot. That then gets a running sinker on it (sinker size depends on drift speed, current) and a swivel tied on. Then about half to a meter of the same leader tied on and a hook or gang of your choice. Make sure the sinker isn't a heavy bomb. You want it to sink to the bottom but not bomb down. Dont stop letting line out either. Occasionally you can lock the spool but only for a short time. I do the same with plastics. Light as possible but still getting down there. Drift speed can play a big part too. Up there it gets windy. Wind against tide is a @#$% to fish in. There are parachutes designed for fishing that will hold you in the current better and stop the wind blowing you around. This then allows your bait to get down and present better. What sounder have you got? Get a good sounder with 500kw+ traditional chirp transducer. Learn to use it and actually sound up the fish before you drop. If I'm in a new area I will drive around till I start sounding fish, sometimes this may take more than an hr. Split the screen so you have full depth on one split and either bottom lock or zoomed mode on the other split. In 50m of water you won't see much on full view but the zoomed view will show good returns. However full view may pick up a bait school or fish returns outside of your zoomed in view. I always have full view showing just in case. If you haven't got a good GPS with all the contours then don't fear. Try this Chart. All you need right there. How wide do you head out? I have friends up that way (rosslyn) and they stay at Humpy Is. all the time. He cleans up on trout, nannys etc not far off the island. Believe me, I get the photos as proof. Exactly where I have no idea but like I said above...a good sounder set up properly won't take long to find the fish. I think we're heading up in Nov. I haven't been out of Rosslyn before. If our friends can't fish with me then I'd be happy to take you. We'll be in Rosslyn though. Not far as I understand. Still not a defenant yet. However if I do then I plan to do exactly what I've posted above. Drive till I find fish. Good luck.

Nice fish. Hard to tell just on bottom lock. Send me the coordinates and I'll check it out for you'z.

Download map18 Capricorn bunker group. Gives you all of the green zones around the area. Plenty of fishing to be had around there. Massive lagoon to anchor in. Map 18 I've never stepped foot on the island as such so can't comment there but the fishing is good around it. Not hard to get a feed. That time of year should see good weather too. Latley the weather has been terrible. Only very small pockets to head out. This week coming up looks good but I have to work. Hopefully it holds off till the following week.

Me either.

Nooo. Surely not. Squid jigs would be able to get down there though.

A mate had his bucks 4 weeks ago. Charter off DI. Was good fun. I have nothing for activities up stanthorp way but as pranks he had to use a spin reel with left hand wind cause he is right handed, he had a pink too too, pink mullet wig, florrel bra, and when we got off the boat one of the boys managed to get a 14lb bowling ball with about 80mm of 10mm anchor chain dyna bolted to it. When the buck wasn't ready it was padlocked to his ankle so he had to drag it around all afternoon and night. Funny as to see. Poor bastard had a bruised ankle the next morning, and we hid the key when we were extremely inebriated so finding it was fun too. Good luck...and make sure it is one to remember.

I wish I could get out for 120 days every year. Offshore not effected though, is it? If this rubbish passes that is.

Wow. That is amazing. Hahaha. Had to try one of these gif things. Never noticed it before.

Nomad Nomad sportfishing Reality charters Reality charters.

Loved it. They looked just like the dream team when they had NSW on the line and the crowd was behind them for that 10min or so. Awesome to see. My guess is we are looking at the new dynasty of QLD players. YEEWWWWWW!

We call them "scaffolder cod"

Olay. 1. Because knitting sucks. 2. Charged with adrenalin/excited. 3. A smoko shop offshore. That would be cool. 4. See ya later.

Just had another look at your cat. I love KC's. Do you lose rods at any time out of the rocket launchers when travelling? Man they're racked back. Been in plenty of kevla's and never noticed the launchers to be so raked. I know they ride smooth as silk so this may be your saving grace. My mates old reef boss had launchers like that and rough weather they would bounce out. I always left my rods on the deck when travelling. Must also find it difficult to cast without a collision of rods.

Hussar 39. Moses. 26.

Geez, only 6:18am and already I've learnt enough for 5 days. What a great thread. Be interested to see the results reg the age. Never eaten hussar, always traded them in but that one would yeald some nice fillets. That Moses looks like a beast. I wouldn't have let out the camera trick secret.

Maybe have a chat to someone like Arnolds fiberglass. I know he is very familiar with those hulls. I would be renewing the transom at the same time if you go the bolt on pod option. The weight of the jacking plate won't be anywhere near as bad as moving the motor back 500mm. The plate only weighs about 30kg from memory. But that motor going back 500mm will need more weight up front to counter it.....or else the vessel may/will porpoise. That motor would nearly be that hulls max hp. Things get realy touchy on those older hulls when making big changes like moving engines.

That's a mission building a pod and a lot of time off the water. You can get jacking plates for around $800. That will do the trick....no moding the hull either.