Another Wazza

Brian, I'm still in awe of your display of pure unluck, its something I haven't seen before, and hopefully never witness again, hahaha. It was still a great holiday in an awesome part of the world.
The channel is an amazing place to see and fish, and I can't wait to get back up there and get amongst it again.

Hahaha, I had noticed a few things didn't make it into your recollection.

Hahaha, I had noticed a few things didn't make it into your recollection.

Hahaha, I had noticed a few things didn't make it into your recollection.

I had a trip to Cairns go a bit pear shaped a few years ago. Mate and myself both battling illness, boat issues and bad weather. We managed a few fish but the trip definitely didn't go to plan.
Unpacking the freezer when I got home, I found some empty (but sealed) vacuum pouches labeled "Brett's Barra".... 
We still laugh about it now.

Brian, I'm still in awe of your display of pure unluck, its something I haven't seen before, and hopefully never witness again, hahaha. It was still a great holiday in an awesome part of the world.
The channel is an amazing place to see and fish, and I can't wait to get back up there and get amongst it again.

Brian, I'm still in awe of your display of pure unluck, its something I haven't seen before, and hopefully never witness again, hahaha. It was still a great holiday in an awesome part of the world.
The channel is an amazing place to see and fish, and I can't wait to get back up there and get amongst it again.

Brian, I'm still in awe of your display of pure unluck, its something I haven't seen before, and hopefully never witness again, hahaha. It was still a great holiday in an awesome part of the world.
The channel is an amazing place to see and fish, and I can't wait to get back up there and get amongst it again.

Brian, I'm still in awe of your display of pure unluck, its something I haven't seen before, and hopefully never witness again, hahaha. It was still a great holiday in an awesome part of the world.
The channel is an amazing place to see and fish, and I can't wait to get back up there and get amongst it again.

Hi all,
This report will be about my recent trip up to Yeppoon. After driving up, I was pretty exhausted, so slept in on the first Monday morning. It was pretty windy that day though, but with tides ideal to fish off Double Heads my dad and I went for a quick arvo fish there. Unfortunately, with some relatively dirty water, and conditions making it a little difficult to fish, we didn't manage any catches. 
The next morning, we were back at Double Heads to try our luck again. Lures of choice were 20, 25, and 30 gram red Flashas, but after heaps of casts we were completely unsuccessful in catching anything. Conditions were pretty bad once again, so after about 1.5hrs of fishing off the rocks we decided to relocate to Ross Creek, because the tide was still pretty low. Here, I caught a small flatty on plastics, but the bite was still pretty quiet all around. That arvo, I was at a bit of a loss as to where to go fishing, but my uncle was going over to our boat in the harbor so I had a quick cast there. Being the middle of the day, I struggled to catch bait, but it was still disappointing that I had a big fat donut to finish the day off. 
The next day was Wednesday, and luckily for us the weather was good. Unfortunately, after a couple weeks of bad weather prior to me arriving, the water was very dirty, meaning most larger fish and baitfish were nowhere to be found. My Dad and I still gave it a good crack though, but I think the only catch was a grinner by my Dad. I fished for about 3 hours that day off the rocks, and was feeling pretty disappointed by the end of it. I can't recall whether or not I went fishing that arvo, but if I did it was probably at the harbor where I caught nothing. 
On Thursday, we were back at Double Heads, and this time I gave it a longer crack. My Dad headed off a bit early after catching nothing, but I managed to land a wolf herring and a couple grinners for the few hours I was out baking on the rocks. Later that day, after a rest at home, my mate asked me if I wanted to go for a fish at the Causeway Lake, so we tried there for a couple of hours. Despite our best efforts and a pretty long walk though, we didn't manage any fish flicking our lures, but it was still a nice way to spend a couple of hours fishing. That arvo, I went fishing off my uncles boat in the harbour again, and being closer to low tide it was easier to net a few herring. With these, I managed to catch one fish off the back of the boat - a solid 45CM cod, which I kept for dinner. 
The next day, I'm pretty sure my Dad and I went for a quick flick off Double Heads, the last time for the trip. Like every other session, it was a dud though, but we did find out someone had caught a couple good spanos and other mackerel off there a few weeks prior (when the water was cleaner). We left feeling disappointed - hopefully next time the rocks are fishing a bit better. 
Later that day, myself and @Coconutdog went for a fish off of Farnborough beach. It was pretty quiet though, and neither of us caught anything using some dead prawns on light line. Hopefully some more fish next time!
For my final session of the trip, I caught myself a few livies at the harbor, and went down for a fish off of my uncles boat again. Things were looking a bit better this arvo though, because shortly after getting there I caught a bream that would have been a solid 35CM, probably closer to 40CM though, on an unweighted bony bream. After that, while I was winding in an unweighted live bony to check it, it got smashed on the way up, and, having my drag set too tight, my ten pound leader snapped immediately. Bugger! Hoping for another opportunity, I sent another bony down, and sure enough, it got walloped by something that screamed off under the boat. The fight was only short lived though, because it broke me off after the first run. I am assuming it might have been a jack or fingermark, but we'll never know now 😞.  
I called it quits after that bustoff, and we drove home on Friday. So far I haven't caught anything good in the river either this holidays so hopefully a big fish soon. 
Thanks for reading, and sorry no photos, not that there is much to show off anyways.
Cheers Hamish

The other week, @Another Wazza and I headed up to Lucinda, with boats in tow, to meet up with @crazywalrus for 7 days of fishing.
The first 5 or 6 days the weather was rubbish. We tried to get offshore, but with 2 metre waves at the jetty we were turned away. The estuaries were where it had to be and there is plenty of rivers and creeks to explore.
On the 2nd day, at the mouth of the Herbert River, on the way back to the ramp, I ran into a sandbar. Slowly as it was only 40cm deep in the narrow way through. Unfortunately I sucked in some sand and the motor began to overheat. Wazza, who had made it through about 20 minutes earlier, came back and gave us a tow home.
The next morning the three of us all worked on getting the sand out by dropping the leg. A lot of sand came out, but when we put her back together there was no water coming from the tell tale. The impeller was in good nick.  I got on the phone to Mick at Coorparoo Marine. He ran us through some extra tricks to get the sand out. We got more out, but again when we put it back together the water wasn't flowing where it should. Bugger!! That afternoon we looked to get out again in Ted's 6.7M boat but it was still rubbish conditions outside, so we just fished the channel.
The trip wasn't panning out so well and after another dud day with Ted and I in his boat fishing the channel and Wazza fishing the creeks/rivers things were looking bleak. Then we got the message from Wazza with a picture of a Jack. Then another picture of a Jack. He was having a good time where we couldn't get to.
So, the next morning Ted decided to go home, as he had plenty of work on, and allow Wazza and I to fish out of his boat. That day Wazza and I decided to have a day off fishing. We put our heads together and Wazza raised some logic about my motor not getting water to the top but getting water out the bottom. The pump was working.
We dropped the leg again and repositioned a nylon sleeve that the water pipe wasn't seated into properly. Magic. The water was now coming out the top and I was back in action.
The next day we launched both our boats and headed for the creeks, as the wind was still rubbish. Wazza was into more Jacks. On the other hand I was struggling as my electric motor was now playing up. Spotlock would not hold and kept cutting out at low prop speeds. When I tried to drive it manually, it would not steer unless I turned the prop off. So I tried driving it by pointing the head in the direction I wanted, then turning the prop on, then turning the prop off and turning the head then turning the prop on, then off again etc etc. Very difficult and frustrating. Also at speed 9 it was barely moving the bow. I decided to go for a troll instead.
Trolling was slow and a tad on the boring side, but eventually I had a good hit and hooked up to something that was playing up nicely. I got maybe 8 winds and 10 seconds of excitement before the hooks pulled. Maybe a good Jack or smaller Barra.
The weather had turned the corner with good conditions forecast for the two day drive home, so we decided to stay an extra couple of days - stretching the trip to 9 days 'fishing'.
I pulled the prop off the electric to find a broken sheer pin. I carry spares, so I replaced that and was hopeful that was the cause of the other issues. The next day I headed out to the jetty while Wazza focused on the estuary again. The electric dramas were not fixed, so I motored around the jetty marking shows and throwing vibes and plastics for the poor result of 1 approx 25cm GT on the Squidtrex. Off the donut...just. There were a lot of boats out in the morning but most left by the afternoon.
Meanwhile, Wazza had added to his tally of Jacks, Cod, Queenfish and Barra.
 6 jacks 35 - 40cm
 2 cod 20 to 42cm
 1 queeny
 1 barra - 62cm
(from memory)
The last day had the best forecast and it turned out to be spot on. We both fished the jetty. I caught nothing, while Wazza was able to come up with a finiscad and some type of trevelly. Neither desirable, but way better than nothing. Some of the workers told us wher the GT's were, so we both threw stick baits at them, but they had lockjaw. I finished the session with a decent troll around hoping for a Spanish, but no cigar.
 
It was not the trip I was hoping for. I should have been able to read the tea leaves when the day before we departed, the accommodation I organised and paid for in December 2022 was cancelled. A mad scramble saw us find a replacement about 12 hours before we left. Anyway, I'd go back there for revenge. Next time a bit later in the year.
I think I have sorted the electric problem - a battery not holding charge. Hopefully, with a new one next week, the electric will function as it should.
 

You can use them as a substitute for tying a dropper loop 

Went out to the fads on friday, just took some time to write a report.  Got to the ramp at about 5:40 and headed out to get some livies.  picked up about 12 in about 30 minutes so headed out, on the way out we ran over a huge bomby and put a mark on it (Foreshadowing) and continuted out to the Fad 6.  after bludging out way through the swell we finally had it in sight, and what do you know there is a massive school of mahi mahi.  The rush to put out a live bait resulted in a circle hook through my thumb that was not fun to pull out as it went well past the barb in but we carried on. after about 1 hour of not catching we hooked one on a subiki on a 2-4kg bream raider.  then it was just fish after fish.  we boated about 9 or 10 and kept 5 for a good feed.  on the way back in we stopped back the the big bomby we ran over, dropped a squidtrex down on it (about 50 or so metres) and after a few drifts and a couple coral trout (undersize), i hit a brick wall, about 25 metres down on a fast jig up, it took off, peeling line and heading to the bottom, i put the hurt on it with my saltiga and grappler combo and got it to the surface where it took off about 100-150 metres across the surface; after about 10-15 minutes dad gaffed the mighty cobia, it ended up going just over a metre and 8kg.  we decided to take it but relised that we had taken a bit to much fish so off to my mates house to drop off 2 dollies, (gave them to this mate because he and his family really apreciates fish and respects it).  got some really nice fillets of them, all of the dollies were 60-70cm
cheers (I'll add photos when its working again)

I know @Another Wazza. I have been busting to put up a photo of the 110cm Cobia I caught under the Indooroopilly Bridge last week. Not sure I will be able find it again when photos come back!

Hey @Hweebe, this issue was raised by @Luc53 in June, I think most people have just made peace with it, but now that there’s no photos, I fear the natives are getting restless 

Hey @Hweebe, this issue was raised by @Luc53 in June, I think most people have just made peace with it, but now that there’s no photos, I fear the natives are getting restless 

Hey @Hweebe, this issue was raised by @Luc53 in June, I think most people have just made peace with it, but now that there’s no photos, I fear the natives are getting restless 

Hey @Hweebe, this issue was raised by @Luc53 in June, I think most people have just made peace with it, but now that there’s no photos, I fear the natives are getting restless 

Hey @Hweebe, this issue was raised by @Luc53 in June, I think most people have just made peace with it, but now that there’s no photos, I fear the natives are getting restless 

Dragged the family along for a trip on the bay for my fathers day present, selfishly! haha! any chance to get on the water for mine even if it involves persuading the missus, a 3 and a 5 year old its a good idea.! anyway all aboard the 3.85 tinny for a bash on the northern bay with hopes of a snapper or two. fishing wasnt exactly going off for us, but we were throwing 3" holt prawns and 3.75" zman streakz around reefy areas in the northern bay. the missus was first to strike with a sub30cm snapper that went back swiftly then my 3 yr old boy got a little bar tailed flatty that was too small aswell. no action for yours truly and the 3yr old was letting me know about that "dad wheres your big snapper?! dad wheres all your fish? dad you fish alot what are we going to fillet?! the nerve!!!
anyway persistence paid off when on our third and final drift (kids werent lasting any longer) my holt prawn got an enquiry hopped off the bottom and i hooked up solid to a fish that cut 20m or so of water in a hurry!! when i got tight it felt like there was a bit of weight an after a tussle we had a ripper of a barred javelin in the net and up on the front thwart grunting its head off to the kids amusement...a first for me and a great surprise after years of wanting to cross paths with one.

 

My 1st Decky went back home with a nice lot of red fish and my brother and his wife joined us for the second week of our holiday.Fortunately we got another weather window ,so we  set a plan to fish shallow for RTE ‘s  .
Again , we found some real quality fish pretty easily. Strips of Iodine Bream , Mac Tuna and whole squid were the go to baits. 
By about 11am we had a good box of  RTE’s  , then decided to move out off the shallows  and fish some deeper ledges to top up with a few more red fish .
We struggled with some Reef Sharks , Spanish mackerel , and Bludger Trevally  taking fish and baits till about 2pm, but got a few trout , Venus tuskfish and my brother even managed to extract   a  nice red  emperor .
I caught my fish Barramundi Cod, and had a massive Red Bass shortened by a shark ,after I had the fish beaten on the surface . It’s head and shoulders would have been about 4 kgs.Unfortunately  the attached picture doesn’t really show the true size of this magnificent fish .
The sea conditions had flatten some what and we had the wind up our stern, so we called it early to run for home. We ditched our left over bait frames and videoed the not so small  reef sharks making short work of it .
We sat on 25knots most of the way home   and got back  in an hour and 15 minutes. I’ll attach some photos and a video of the sharks  that you can hopefully view when the site allows viewing again.
Regards
Neil
 
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I think I know what’s going on here, @Angry51was cleaning out his shed and stumbled upon some old school powdered milk, the packaging & label are quite tatty and impossible to read as it’s been in there for 30+ years, being the frugal bushy that he is, he’s trying to work out just what brand it is so he can jump online and bring up the MSDS, that way he can ascertain if it’s still good to use in his cuppa, or his breakfast, Hahahaha,
My only advice to you @Angry51is it’s not worth the risk, treat yourself to some brand new powder.

Be careful searching for 3 ways on YouTube, never know what might pop up …. 🙄🤪🤣

You can use them as a substitute for tying a dropper loop 

You can use them as a substitute for tying a dropper loop