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A bit embarrassing that your old mate’s last battle was with a grinner, but sad nonetheless. Sounds like you have plenty of fallback options. 

Cheeky bugger!! Yes sounds like there’s plenty of both in the bay ATM. Yes planning on taking the boys. Going to have to buy some spear fishing gear 😎.

Should be a great trip, Kelvin. Taking the boys? I have seen a few YT videos of the barge they use. Great idea. When you said the island is closed for pest eradication I immediately thought they might be getting rid of grinners, in which case they could have waited for you to take care of that for them. 😂 I can’t talk, though. All my recent fishing trips have been dominated by grinners and sharks! Enjoy the planning!

Aaaannnndddd my brothers and I have decided to look into going next June/July or Sept/Oct holidays 🙂. 30 years later I'm hopefully going to get there 🙂.

Good report @mangajack, sorry to hear about the loss of your favorite rod, at least you still got a few bites. 

Fun read, but such a frustrating day. Plenty of time to reflect in the traffic.
Those grinners seem to be in big numbers all around the bay lately. 🤬 🥴
 

It is with a heavy heart that I tell the tale of a long lasting friendship that ended on Friday.
It was about 1982 I was introduced to GT270 and we became inseparable for nearly 43 years.
I dressed it up with all the nicest of accompaniments over those years and it served me well with many fine encounters of being triumphant.
Sadly on Friday it threw a tanty with the grinners around Mud...what a terrible way to go....topped itself about shoulder height is a most unexpected way...what a disgraceful way to go after being such a champion for so many decades.
Now standing in the corner with all the other dis-used, abused and broken, like a naughty child told to stand in the corner facing the wall....not a whimper at all.
Thank you Mr SnyderGlas for creating my prototype friend, he was an outstanding comrade for so very long.
My initial thoughts were disbelief and a hollow sense that grows within....thoughts of finding a suitable replacement to fill the void and then the realisation that nothing else could fulfill the spot in the rack.
To be honest, i don't think I could develop that amount of trust into something I could buy today...pure graphite just does not have the personality or the toughness of glass and graphite blends.
Anyway, enough of the dwelling on loss and time to regale the stories from Friday....6am launch....live baits by 6.15am....Mud at 6.25am.....Bloody bastard grinners within seconds ad they didn't stop.
So After several spot changes I found ourselves well east of Mud on a rubble patch i had not previously encountered in 12m of water. 1st cast was a small squire, then a few grinners....retie the leader and cast out again only to feel another grinner on the bait....ripped the bait away from it harshly and BANG...huge hit and peeled 30 odd metres from the reel then all became slack...reeled it in to find a lot of grinner teeth marks on the last 40mm of leader...dirty little shytes.
Oh well....came back to the rock wall and the water was filthy so went to the tripods for a quick look..not much there but in crossing the channel i spotted a school of jew so spent the next 30 minutes trying to coax some interest out of them....I left them sleeping and quietly motored away, defeated once more.
Into the river!!!!  I don't know why i got excited then, the high light was the biggest flounder I have caught in 30 years, and a couple of jumbo bream in the kilo class....snapper flathead and jew we encountered were all wearing nappies....
I ended the day with a leisurely drive from Pinkenba to Petrie that took 1.45 hours in the Friday afternoon Gateway traffic....so relaxing indeed.

Thanks for sharing. 🤢🤮
haha

Update: Seasickness makes sense now - I’ve got full blown gastro !

Top stories.
Great photos.

Good score.
You needed to give yourself a get well gift. haha

Hi All.
Got sick of my GP telling me I can't go fishing.
Rang my Specialist earlier in the week. I saw her yesterday. All clear to go in a week's time.
After that I decided to buy some new lures. I have heaps, but a few more will not matter.
I ended up looking at surf rods.
I picked up a Storm  Gomoku 13ft 3pce 12-20kg rod. Nice rod. I have read some good reports on these rods. They have a Penn Prevail blank. Retail $209.00.
I went home did some more research. 13ft would be great for the beach. These rods cast big lures. I don't need 12-20kg rating. But you never know. The rod weighs 12lbs.
When I caught some Kingie's recently my 10ft 8-12kg rod struggled a bit.
Found one on the Net for $170.00.
Cheers.

I was camping at Blakesleys a couple of weeks ago. We had crab pots out front of the camp in 4 or 5 metres of water. When we collected them in the morning a massive tiger followed them all up and even knocked a couple right beside the boat. It was at least 500mm across the head and we estimated at least 3 metres long. Very big animal. Needless to say we decided against the morning swim. 

Actually, well done KM. Getting a good round score is nigh on impossible in my view, let alone picking a perfect round.

Thanks Greg. It took me from 3pts behind my 12yr old son Liam to 1pt in front in our extended family comp 😁. He’s now none from three this weekend, like many others who picked the Roosters I would imagine. Great win by the Phins last night 👏.

Actually, well done KM. Getting a good round score is nigh on impossible in my view, let alone picking a perfect round.

Actually, well done KM. Getting a good round score is nigh on impossible in my view, let alone picking a perfect round.

here we go again... good luck to all
 
ROUND 7
THURSDAY APRIL 18
Roosters vs. Storm Allianz Stadium 7:50pm AEST
FRIDAY APRIL 19
Dragons vs. Warriors WIN Stadium 6:00pm AEST
Eels vs. Dolphins TIO Stadium 8:00pm AEST
SATURDAY APRIL 20
Panthers vs. Tigers BlueBet Stadium 3:00pm AEST
Titans vs. Sea Eagles Cbus Super Stadium 5:30pm AEST
Broncos vs. Raiders Suncorp Stadium 7:35pm AEST
SUNDAY APRIL 21
Bulldogs vs. Knights Accor Stadium 2:00pm AEST
Sharks vs. Cowboys PointsBet Stadium 4:05pm AEST
Byes: Rabbitohs

Haven't heard of any large Tigers here before, but no reason they shouldn't be here, quite a few bronzies here, I saw one when I was on the jetty that morning, much smaller version, I didn't get a good look at it but from what I saw it wasn't all that big, still it would have been doable on smaller gear.
 

Yeah, no chance. @Terry H used to target the ones at Moreton on his 80W and epic battles ensued with a few landings on the beach. Wouldn't happen at the jetty, like you said, Ed.
I would have thought they would be more commonly seen there ??

Yesterday I had to wait for my car to be fixed at Urangan Hervey bay, and had some time to kill so went for a walk to the jetty as I haven't been there for a while. Talking to the locals near the end, and apparently there has been a very large Tiger shark hanging around there for a couple of days. One of the locals saw it relatively close up and said it was about 4m long and about 1m wide across. It was going for a mackerel he had in the water and had to yank it up quickly.
My first thought was I should get my 50W out and have a go later that night but then reality set in, what would I do if I was even managed to hook it? The Urangan jetty isn't really set up to release big fish, there is a lot of height under the jetty and trying to maneuver such a large shark to the start of the jetty and onto the sand would be next to impossible as it is over 1km away.  So gave up on that idea as it would be too futile.
No doubt plenty of guys will try to target it but don't think anybody will succeed, they will need a very large reel and the biggest I saw there was a TLD25 so not even in the running, even a 50W is probably way too small especially from the a jetty, will keep my ears open if it hits the news 😁.

Well, thanks KM. I didn’t want to blow my own trumpet but it is nice of you to recognise my achievements. 🤪

Well, thanks KM. I didn’t want to blow my own trumpet but it is nice of you to recognise my achievements. 🤪

Just realised I forgot to say well done to those very, very clever people (or is that 'person' ...... 🤔🤪😃) that managed to pick three upsets last week to nail a perfect round. Well done - you know who you are ........... 😜

Still a good effort @Andrew_P considering the conditions, and yes, it seems whoever did the bay forecast was smoking that exact same weed, it was pretty average out there early until around 8am, then it came good.