Allnighter

@ellicat as soon as that bloody northerly came up Brian, we were outta there ! Weird how it backed off shortly after, it normally rolls on and on into the night. Keep going with the fresh baits mate.

@matty74 lol..... 

13 hours ago, matty74 said:

Easy when you have good gps marks 

Hahaaa im not so sure about that statement ?? ..... " easy"  it took me 30 years to figure out different spots in the bay matty, there is no "secret spot" that i am aware of.....   we just spent hours and hours of fishing different well known gps marks , and a few new marks of our own to find out for ourselves the better times to fish them.

And these are all spots in 6 metres or less close to bay islands

Ive had countless donut trips over the years.

Honestly, sometimes there are other boats fishing the same places no further than 20 metres away..... ( which is part of the reason we dont bother on weekends)  if you look closely in one of the pics you can see another boat not too far from us, he was drifting past us more closely a few times flicking plastics, but after a few drifts he pissed off unsuccessful. ( my point is that he would assume the spot wasnt holding snapper). I could blab on and on forever because im quite passionate about bay snapper tactics, so trust me, i have earnt every snapper that comes over the side and into the boat these days, and yes a reasonable amount are released too  

 Of course im proud of our catches and when i post pics it makes me all warm n fuzzy, but i have also enjoyed giving others a few tips along the way, without being too specific, anyway enough ranting lol..... 

Decided to get out here before the rain

Nice boat Kat !

Years ago i too had a formosa centre console and it never let me down, it was a great boat and very safe.

Just some free advice on the bimini......

 i left my bimini on the whole time, i had some "clears" custom made for the front and the sides attached to the bimini and straps.

The clears at the front had a zipper in the middle. The clears buttoned along the front to the aluminium.

Most of the time the whole bimini and clears stayed down in the folded position to the front of boat and rested behind anchor well, it was out of the way.

In cold windy weather or a storm or anchored on a cold night i would simply pull the folded down bimini up into position with the clears already attached and it would instantly convert into a huge half cab sort of idea, you could still see all around because of the clear vinyl - it worked a treat.

We would sleep either side of centre console on rolled up foam mattresses.

Snug as bugs in rugs !!

On the way home

Tried sum new banks for whiting closer to ramp but no great success

Omfg wat a beauuuuutiful day ! 

Kept one snapper at 75cm, released 2 similar models

Checked by water police, all good here occifer

Lovin the holidays and time off work, off to try for sum whitings

Time for a relaxing drinkies then home

Hicccc

Oh and a cigar with it just for brian @ellicat

And an 80cm at magic hour

A nice 75cm bay snapper caught 30 mins ago on a nice monday arvo, this one was released to swim another day

Well,  headed out to Green Island solo today to see if the snaps have arrived yet.

Water starting to clear after all the recent rain and water temp dropping nicely.

It wasnt exactly flat this afternoon, the northerly seemed to kick up a bit more than predicted or so it seemed.

Was a bit of a hard slog to gather bait though, i spent 4 loooong hours before scraping together enough bait for a snapper session.

4 hours gathering bait, for a 2 hour fishing session at spot x in 6 metres of water.

Well the good news is the snaps are back around the bay shallows again ! 

 1 @ 65cm and 1 @ 80cm...

Happy with 2 for a feed, so i decided to head back in before dusk.