I’m house sitting in Manly for a couple of weeks. I want to take the young fella out fishing somewhere we can catch easily. Not looking for trophy fish, just somewhere to him happy. We have 4.2 tinny.
Looks like a great trip. Was talking to a mate from Cooktown the other day and he said the access to Cape Melville has been closed.
Which is a shame, amazing spot.
Just an update that might help people in the future. I called "minnrepairs" as recommended by elicat and it was suggested I get the battery tested first up. Turns out the battery was screwed, not enough amps to perform two functions at once.
Just an update that might help people in the future. I called "minnrepairs" as recommended by elicat and it was suggested I get the battery tested first up. Turns out the battery was screwed, not enough amps to perform two functions at once.
Just an update that might help people in the future. I called "minnrepairs" as recommended by elicat and it was suggested I get the battery tested first up. Turns out the battery was screwed, not enough amps to perform two functions at once.
Just an update that might help people in the future. I called "minnrepairs" as recommended by elicat and it was suggested I get the battery tested first up. Turns out the battery was screwed, not enough amps to perform two functions at once.
Earlier this year I had the annual service on my Honda 60 motor and gearbox done by Mobile Marine Medics. They also fitted a new water pump impeller and a new steering cable.
Did a good job of all these and at what I thought was a very fair price.
Will be getting them to do the next service when it's due.
Can't remember the business name but used a gent by the name of Shane to fix my 25hp 2 stroke merc. It wouldn't start and over the phone he guessed what the problem was, then came and fixed it. It was exactly what he suspected - a dirty carb that just needed a clean. He was at my house at 7am and had it sorted by around 730.
0447 759 409.
My Minn Kota Terrova has developed a problem, if someone can point me in the right direction I will have go at fixing it before paying for repair.
The steering has stopped working when the prop is spinning. Stop the prop and steering works. The problem appears to be triggered by turning right??
Cheers
Hi all
Here's the report for my last two sessions. None of them were particularly successful, but I still caught an OK fish 🙂 Normally I would be out this morning, but the tides were completely out and I'd stayed up late watching a movie yesterday night. Luckily I'm going yakking THIS arvo, but not a serious fishing trip. My dad and my mate want me to try out the sit in kayak, so while my dad will be in the yak with my sister I'll be in the sit in. I'll make sure my dad has at least one rod, probably just rigged with a lure 🙂
The first session took place at the Botanic Gardens on the river. I brought my telescopic rod along, in hope of some bream or cod. I have caught one bream there before, fishing hard up against structure with unweighted bread. I got left the alone with my brother for about 40 minutes as my mum needed to go and grab my car, as we were mainly doing some shopping in the city. (Parking ticket otherwise).
I fished unweighted bread for about 20 minutes - I just let it naturally drift down in the current on both sides of the mangrove tree I was fished. The structure certainly looks fishy, and I'm sure there'd have to be some OK fish hanging around in it. Then again... I suppose it's in the middle of a very crowded place.
Alright I look a bit creepy in that second photo
Since bread wasn't working, I tried walking the rock wall with a hard vibe lure the Sam Steele gave to me. I knew I was going in the right spot, as I could feel my lure getting snagged/bumping along on the rocks. I certainly would've found it tempting if it fluttered over my head, that's for sure! I walked about 100M down the first time, then back, then 100M down the other way, so in total I would've done about 500M-700M of walking. Sigh! (I did it numerous times in case you're wondering how 100 + 100 = 500 😉)
Here are the stats of that short city sesh -
Tide: High, 1:50PM, 2.1M, Low, 8:16PM, .5M
Moon Phase: New Moon, so a bit of run
Bait used: Bread
Lure used: Ecogear small hard bream vibes
Tackle Used: Shimano Telescopic Rod and reel combo, 10lb mainline, 20lb leader, small bait holder hooks
Weather: Cloudy and windy
Time fished: About 1:40PM-2:20PM
Overall Success Rate: 30% - a newer spot fished
Now, the second sesh took place yesterday arvo at the local park like usual. I rocked up at around 2:30PM, and just as I got there my mate arrived. Since it was a very high tide (still rising) I didn't bother throwing the cast net first up but instead got the left over prawns I had and baited up. A group of ladies had come down, who were quizzing me on everything I knew in the area (like what was the big building across from us, where this path went, blah, blah, 😉), but then the rod went off!
I picked it up, and the fish had some go in it. While the fight wasn't very long, I still got some OK fun out of it, as it was darting around all over the shop. I saw a flash of silver, and low and behold up comes a solid bream. My mate held the rod while I bent over and netted it, which was quite easy seeing as though the tide was so high! I pulled him/her up, got a quick measure after some struggle de-hooking, and put the fish back. It was 30cm on the dot, but wasn't a very chunky fish (probably because it just spawned).
Brag Mat Shot - BMS (no I did not break my scale)
Nice piccy - almost worth chucking on the wall
After that bream, I was a bit more eager to re-bait and got the line straight back out. I should mention I was trying for early season bullies today, so one of the lines I had out was rigged with two dead poddy mullet in hope that I could manage something. The salmon line was rigged with a dead herring, and the line that was normally out where the shark line was got dropped right into structure with two herring in hope for a cod.
I gave the cast net a couple more throws (I was using the ten footer today), but to no avail. It is very annoying when I can't collect livies here, so what I may need to start doing is going to somewhere with my pushy where I can get livies, then coming back here to fish. That might have to wait 'till I fashion a 🥁 🥁 (drumroll)... PUSHY FISHING CART! (OK that's a bad name Lol).
The bite had gone really quiet, and for the next hour or so I literally got nothing - not even a single nibble (this was around tide change). I gave the net one throw just before the tide change though and got a small live prawn which was good size bream bait, so I put it back down. In about 2 minutes, that line went screaming off. I ran over, tightening the drag, but unfortunately the fish didn't get hooked. It went back for second, which was a rather big hit, but I didn't manage to hook up on this one either. Bugger!
Once it was tide change, I was out of good fresh/live prawns, so I went to herring with this line too. It seems the pickers only move in when the tide is changing, so maybe fishing with a bit of run is better in the structure. I find it frustrating to be holding the rod, and not even be able to hook up to them because there mouths are to small for the hook (yes, I've even tried tiny whiting hooks for no result - my guess is either miniscule bream or tadpole toadies!). I got one glassy in the net around this time as well, which is better than no glassies... I placed it on the salmon line with low expectations, and fortunately for him he swum off at the end of the session fine.
Bloody Pickers!
In about another 45 minutes, my dad came down. He gave the net a quick throw, and by now it was about 5:15PM. Since the tide turned just about nothing had happened, except for the fact that another glassy was given to the salmon line. My dad and sister we getting killed by the midgies (and if I'm honest so was I), so we all decided to head off. I was somewhat happy with the session, with that decent bream. I mean, it's sure better than nothing! Here are the stats of the trip -
Stats of Trip -
Tide: 8:50AM, .3M, Low, 3:30PM, 2.1M, High, 10:10PM, .6M, Low
Moon Phase: New Moon
Weather: Little clouds, little wind
Time fished: 2:30PM - 5:15PM
Tackle Used: 12lb, 14lb, 30lb braid mainlines, 20lb, 30lb fluorocarbon leaders, 80lb mono trace, size 2 and 6 ball/bean sinkers, size 4/o circle and suicide hooks, large barrel swivel, 6"6' Abu Garcia Venotat (I think) rod, 8" Ugly Stik, 2M Rogue Firepoint Boat rod, and a lower quality Jarvis Walker type rod which I can never remember the name of, with size 2500 Shimano Nascis and Diawa Shinobis, Size 650 Penn reel, Size 5000 Jarvis Walker Sovereign reel
Bait used: Live prawn, a couple live glassies, dead prawns, mullet, and herring
Bait caught: Prawn (x1), Glassy (x2)
Overall Success Rate: 50% - at least I got the breambo!
Alright, that's the reports done. I hope you enjoyed, even though they aren't the most exciting ones in the world! Hopefully next time/sometime this school hols I can manage a salmon, that's for sure. Thanks for reading!
Cheers Hamish 🙂
P.S. Sorry for any spelling/grammatical/punctuational errors
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