Poddymullet

Does make you think about using lures. How many fish out there might be like this. But I’ve never caught one with them in the guts. 

The best part about not working any more is being able to pick the best days of the week to go fishing.  Yesterday was certainly a cracker to be out on the water. Had a little solo trip to the front of the rock wall, leaving the port ramp about 8am.  Pretty quiet with just a few very pretty wrasse, some bream around the 25cm mark and a sole to keep me entertained early. Not a single snapper, which is what I was looking for. 
Decided to move to a spot close by where I often find flatties. Threw a prawn on a bream rig while I tossed plastics around looking for the flathead. The prawn was taken by a winter whiting so I changed hooks and started feeding them half a peeled prawn.  Gathered 19 in no time, and thought that would be enough filleting for one day, so moved into the river to see if I could bag a snap on the outgoing tide. Very quiet to begin with, but came on the chew 30 minutes before I needed to get off the water.  Caught 4 or 5 that were around the 34cm mark and then bagged a decent 45cm model for the esky on my last cast.
Overall a beautiful day on the water.  Interesting too - I saw the Japanese warships and a sunken tinnie tied off to a channel marker. Never a dull moment down there.  Here is a bad picture of a couple of dead fish. Thanks for reading.
 

This may not be a good business for me. Using all the plastic up on experimental new colors for my own trips.😉

Congrats mate..
I will get you to autograph my Gobblers shirt .....
Looking forward to all the lure testing, I can just imagine you saying to Julie " We've got to take these new colours up to 1770."
 

Couldn’t have gone to a better owner Wayne. Your passion for the product is obvious as are the results. Can’t wait to see the changes for gobblers. I’ll be making another purchase soon 🙂

Couldn’t have gone to a better owner Wayne. Your passion for the product is obvious as are the results. Can’t wait to see the changes for gobblers. I’ll be making another purchase soon 🙂

Couldn’t have gone to a better owner Wayne. Your passion for the product is obvious as are the results. Can’t wait to see the changes for gobblers. I’ll be making another purchase soon 🙂

After some negotiation with the owner of Gobblers Lures, my wife and I have purchased the small business.
We will be taking it over in early July and manufacturing from home. (Just in time for me to make a few lures for the Kimberly trip coming up in end of July). 🙂
It will take a few months to find our feet and then hopefully we can start making some small changes to improve the Gobbler experience.
Predominantly my Julie will be manufacturing the lures while I be doing marketing, development etc.
I'm sure there will a special for AFO members when we are sorted.😉
This is why I have been quite on the forum for a little while.

You are most welcome. I didn't even get cig from the giant Spanish. The pelicans had the feed of their lives. haha. 
I gave away a stack of frames to the locals for crab bait too so everyone was happy. 

Here's a couple of pics that I forgot to upload.
Thanks Robbie for dropping over and giving us a hand to clean the fish and also for taking away all of the frames afterwards.

Nice work mate, flathead are a great eating fish, yum!

Thanks mate will try them out. 

that was my favourite lure for a long time
 
nice set of flatties mate

G/Day Panther , Nice fish at the perfect eating size, It looks like you used a Squidgy Wriggler. I find I get 5 x more fish on the squidgy bloodworm wriggler 100mm.
Good job, thanks for sharing. Cheers.

As usual its been a while between posts for me. I hadn't been out in the boat since last year! 😠 I managed to get my newly serviced tinny (with new thermostat 😐) out to the Pine River a few days back, on a solo trip, and managed to land some hard-fought dinner. 
I started the trip by motoring towards the mouth from the deep water bend boat ramp, sounding at a few not-secret-at-all spots but not getting many returns on the Lowrance display. I fluked the tide at the shallow section between the green-red-green markers just south of Dolyes Rocks, which is getting less passable every trip I make to the Pine!? A mate of mine is a Hydrographic Surveyor for the QLD gov, which incidentally doesn't service the Pine, and his thoughts are the Port of Brisbane is saving $$$ by reducing frequency or not dredging some channels anymore.
Long story short, after an hour or so I finished fishing the far-lower reaches with a donut, on both bait and lure. Bad start but not unusual in my experience in this river. The trend almost continued when I headed upstream to the Bruce HWY bridge and wrecks just west of it. I managed a couple of small bream on prawns. So I ventured further upstream as the tide was nearing high, anchoring on a bend and immediately landed plenty of small bream and flathead on prawns. Only when I through a lure did I manage a keeper - on first cast...

10 minutes later, a few more tiddlers on bait followed by...

...and 'NO' it's not the same fish photographed later!
Stuck around for 30 mins until high tide, then decided to leave with just enough flatty tails for the family for dinner that night. Hard work but worth the trip.

Great trip and fish as always.
Good to know in 25kts winds you can still fine shelter out there.

Lance and I left Brisbane Sunday morning and headed up the highway rolling in to Agnes Waters just after 2pm. We fueled up and got plenty of ice launching by 3pm we pointed the boat towards our final destination.
 
The boat travelled over some very calm conditions with a forecast of mint weather for our 1st couple of days. We reached the reef we wanted to fish just after sunset but not much biting around dusk surprisingly.
 
We ended up moving over to our overnight anchorage and cooked a hot dinner. The sea was like glass and the stars had a mirror image on the water, going to bed you could not hear the water lapping on the hull.
 
After a perfect night sleep we were greeted to more of the same weather and the fish were hungry. The 1st area we targeted Red Emperor and both Lance and I lost a couple of big Reds blowing us away. I did hook a Red before they all shut down landing a 60cm Red beast.
 
Jumping down to the next spot was easy with the sea state and each new spot gave up some quality fish. Coral trout, Red throat emperor, Venus tuskfish, Hussar, Moari cod and Red Emperor were filling the box. By 3pm the box was nearly full as we got close to our baglimits so we anchored up for a well earned rest so we thought.
 
We cracked a few beers and I set a floating bait for any lurking pelagic. Well it didn't take long for a Spanish mackerel to hit peeling line at blistering speed. The gaff shot was made but this fish new how to fly jumping off the gaff and winning it's freedom.
 
No sooner I had set another floating slimie mackerel out the rod buckled again. Lance battled this Spanish calling it for a beast after a dogged fight even looking at 1 stage to running around the anchor rope it did turn and come back eventually coming into gaff range it hit the deck. This Spanaird was just under 140cm and around 18 to 20kg.

 
We even got coral trout while we were anchored while sinking a few coldies at the end of the day. The wind picked up after dark but we were tucked in on the Lee side of the reef. About 5am the wind swung around as forecast and it got a bit lumpy so we pulled the anchor and moved to the Lee side of the neighboring reef.
 
The next anchorage was perfect for the southerly wind which got up to 20 to 25knots. The sea was still flat where we were tucked in behind this reef and you know what there was fish to catch.
 
Setting another floating slimie mackerel the line was pulled out of my hands so I slammed the reel in gear and held on. The reel screaming another Spanish was to blame soon the Spanaird in the box had company.
 
The wind was strong through to midday but dropped right out giving us our freedom from behind the reef. The next area produced our last couple of fish for our total finfish bag. I got a good Maori cod but Lance landed our 2nd legal Red Emperor and last fish so we pointed the boat for home.

 
Getting to the ramp just after dark we stopped at a local caravan park for a sleep. The next day was a lot easier driving home well rested thanks Lance for a great trip and thanks Robbie with the help cleaning and bagging fish up.

Sounds delish mate. Fresh fish is always good. There is always a method somewhere to make any fish taste great. I’ll have to give that one a go. 

Sounds delish mate. Fresh fish is always good. There is always a method somewhere to make any fish taste great. I’ll have to give that one a go. 

I went to the boat show for a look. They do it well wit the free park n ride from movie world. But after going for the past 3 years I'll take a break for the next one.
Seems some comapnies need to give thier sales staff a swift kick in the rear. You can be looking at a big money boats looking as interest as you can and they are more interested talkng to each other.  Always making sure they don't make eye contact or they may have to offer assisatnce.
See this all the time and for the money they spend to be there they are letting opportunities go by. I do these sort of shows in my own business (and don't particualy like them) but, you don't let potential customers walk away without asking what you can do for them.
 
 
 
 
 

Ate the bonito last night (yummy done Mediterranean style with olives, tomatoes, olive oil and lemon in the pan with the fish, also works well with tailor) and had the mackerel tonight. Have frozen all the shark - it will turn into tacos and probably curry. Will let you know.

I had to look that up.
Pedant, a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning.
Sounds nothing like me.
 

I woud guess with its mouth🙄

Nice report @kmcrosby78, sounds like something for everyone in the family.  I know your boys want to take that grinner mantle away from you, but I think @benno573 is the new holder of that title.  He and I had a good session over at Mud on Saturday morning and he landed some stonker grinner, most of which ended up in the crab pots. No time to do a report today (and no photos) but we (more specifically Benno) ended up with a good cod, one good pan sized snapper, a 50cm flathead, a couple of legal tuskies and 3 sandies out of 8 pots.

Nice one mate. Looks like a great day. Top report. How did the shark eat?