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Mind you, if anyone hears of a nice house, preferably on the waterfront or a canal near Wynnum/Manly please let me know. I could be tempted to the dark side. It worked for Darth. Oh that’s right, it didn’t, did it.

You must be a Southsider. If I do need to photoshop I’ll just get advice from any of you guys.

It was funny. A clean bite of a quarter of the tail, big bites marks/ tears above that then the head intact. But we never saw what the huge did because he ended up busting me off on the bottom.

The tail was cleanly bitten off and above that was shredded with big tears/ pieces missing, head still intact.

I agree that what we both caught were Māori Cod. I’ve just been giving them the wrong name all these years. Lol.

Okay. Just searched again. A few of the photos are similar but it looks like there’s great variation in their markings and colouring.

Nothing. But the images of Māori Rock Cod online don’t look like that.

That looks like the same species of cod we caught yesterday but I’ve always called them Wirrah. I looked up both Wirrah and Māori Cod on Google and none of the images for either look like the ones we caught. Bit confused.

I really need to get some new glasses. Just realised you said 48mm, not 48cm. Lol.

I know Hamish is growing quickly, but I’m not sure his hands are quite that big!

There’s no limit to the depths Team South with go, is there? Now they have to depend on their young’uns to try and pull off a win for them! I don’t blame Hamish. He couldn’t help it if he was born on the wrong side of town.

I downloaded that app ages ago when it was a topic on here but wasn’t very impressed with it. Might have to have another look. And I’m open to suggestions on cooking grassies. I consider you to be our resident grassie expert, so how do you cook them?

@benno573 wash your mouth out!

Hey! That’s the one I threw back.

We also caught some good sized Wirra but threw them back after only finding a reference to a 50cm size limit for cod on our phone! I now realise it’s 38cm and we could have kept all three. I have now printed out and laminated a two page size chart for use in future.

That’s my first one for quite a while.

Favourite? It’s my ONLY fishing spot! Nah, I have a couple now. it’s only taken me nearly two years to find them. And there’s really not much showing on the bottom at all.

Knowing that today would probably be a parking lot in the bay given it’s Australia Day, I decided to head over to Moreton yesterday and explore a new area we discovered right towards the end of the day on our last trip out. The forecast was looking good and we set off from P.O.B while it was still dark and actually had to wait a while in the river until dawn before it was bright enough to see. The seas were no more than the predicted 0.3m and we were able to motor along at cruising revs all the way from the river to near Tangalooma. We checked out one possible mark but it looked dead and uninteresting so we headed straight to our mark from last trip and started sounding around. There seemed to be a bit of activity on the bottom so we dropped anchor in about 50’ and started fishing. The bites were on right from the start and we commenced pulling in some just undersized grassies, small squire and tuskies. A legal grassy hit the esky, then a tuskie and then we caught the inevitable grinner. We didn’t know we’d hooked him until Damon’s rod buckled over and he commenced fighting a serious sized fish only for it to get off after a brief tussle. He wound in to find the remains of a large grinner, cleanly bitten off half way down, and with huge tear marks out of the remainder. He’d obviously just taken Damon’s bait when something much larger had come along and taken him. We continued to catch plenty of grassies, tuskies and squire, most undersized when I caught another grinner. I hooked him on as a live bait and dropped him back down. Nothing touched him for a while and I was busy doing something else, preparing more bait or something, when my 6000 Thunnus absolutely screamed off! I set the drag a bit tighter but this fish was a freight train and it was obvious there was no stopping this guy. He eventually broke me off, probably on some jagged bottom a long way from the boat. I am going to need to respool that reel because there’s not much left on it. I have no idea what type of fish this was! I got a new outfit out of the rod locker and started fishing again. Then Damon was on to a nice fighting fish which we eventually netted. It was a beautiful looking juvenile Red Emporer, which while nowhere near the 55cm minimum size, put up a bloody good fight. We measured him before throwing him back but can’t actually remember the exact size now. It was around 40cms though. Would love to catch a legal one. They would certainly take some bringing in. The tide stopped running but the bites didn’t. They just kept coming. Eventually we started swinging on the anchor as the current started running back into the bay. That’s when the fishing got rather hectic! We started hooking, losing and sometimes catching some very nice (well, at least in my books) grassies between 35 and 39 cms, as well as a couple of tuskies thrown into the mix. We ended up running out of bait by just after ten and were very satisfied with our morning’s fishing anyway. As the weather was so nice, we decided to troll for a couple of hours in a nice leisurely circle through the Pearl Channel before calling it quits and heading back to the ramp about lunch time. All in all, a great day out!

I hope you improve soon Robbie.

You can sell a boat every day but you can’t go fishing every day. They had their priorities right.

Yeah. I tried to get a better driver but he’s the best I could find. You pay peanuts, ya get monkeys.

Here. Will this do? IMG_0848.MOV

Whiting are beneath me. I only go for the big stuff. Like Deep Sea Toads.

We go up to Tin Can Bay each year. We have found the fishing to be a bit hit and miss, even in the passage between Inskip Point and the bottom end of Fraser. We go around April each year though so you may do well this time of year. Not sure. You can easily reach the inside of Fraser but the channel I just mentioned can chop up pretty bad depending on the wind. There are a few ledges that hold fish around the inside of Fraser.