GregOug

Cheers Davo,
My advice here would be don't fish for small fish with Gobblers and hook the fish in the hinge of the jaw it saves bite offs. 😂


But seriously, the injection machine once set up would allow for me to shot 2 colour lures which we will look at down the track. 
I hope to get back on here and contribute in the New Year.
Everyone please have a Merry and safe Christmas. 
Cheers Wayne
 
 

Hello everyone and thank you to the admins for allowing me to join this group. I'm a female angler who absolutely loves my fishing. These days it's lures only for me, and I haven't used bait in a few decades now. I'm looking forward to learning a heap of new techniques to try out from some of the members of this group. I fish both landbased, and a boat.  I'll keep this introduction short, as I'm sure I will contribute more at a future time. Thank you 

Thanks Dino. Didn’t realise.

Where the heck do you get toga around Brisbane? I thought they were strictly a northern Aus fish. 

Another good day with Rick still driving as I am still waiting for parts from Nissan. Latest excuse is parts are held up in Melbourne due to bushfires.
Been a week since we were there so redclaw numbers were down with 2 pots having holes chewed in them so 20 redclaw from 8 pots. 
Took a while to find a school of bass but we finally found a couple of migrating schools behind the island that we were able to follow before losing them.
We had 45 fish by 9.30 and when we knocked off at 11.30 we had only increased the tally to 54 bass,1 yella and a forky that percy enjoyed.
Cheers Ray

Didnt take me to long to realize that the edge bite was just not on, but it did take awhile for the fish to get hungry enough to take lures on the troll and hang onto them. Must have missed at least 8 fish when I started trolling, they were getting off halfway to the boat.Lucky they got hungry and I was  able to get 42 bass, 2 yellas and one mongrel forkie, oh no forkie season has started and will keep going till the end of Feb.
Dino

Still feeling the pain 2 days later, but going in the boat in the morning, put new hooks on all the found lures now going to try and see if I can lose them😜

Got up early and went for a walk out at the dam, first cast a nice bass, then walked 10 ft and picked up a lure, bit more walking and got a second bass, then 10ft away was a second lure. I thought gee this is OK, But the bass stopped and the lure finding carried on.Ended up with 2 bass, another lost at the weeds and 6 lures found, worth $80. I walked about 4 ks I'll know all about it tomorrow.I keep forgetting that as far as I walk I have to walk the same distance back.
Dino

The ball stops the rope catching in the water when the tube overruns the rope.  The rope can get slack in it when the tube is out wide. Can give the riders nice whiplash if the driver doesn’t notice.  We never used one, and still don’t with my kids.  You can learn to drive and adjust  throttle to stop the rope hitting the water.  
I would get two single tubes. Don’t know if the first one would get airborne with that weight, unless going crazy speeds.

Can't help with the type of tube, apart from saying check the specifications for what max. weight they're made.
As far as the tow ball goes - I assume they are to dampen the effects of the rope breaking. Considering the weight you're expecting to tow I'd say it's a very good idea and worth the price.
Also you might need to upgrade the standard rope to cater for the big blokes you'll be towing.

I may have been being a little cheeky. 🙃

On a scorcher every animal in the neighbourhood was down by the water by the sounds/look of it. Even you. haha

A day at the zoo, lots of animals and birds.Heaps of pelicans,then I get round the first corner to see 2 young bulls fighting, a female cow went-to them and let out a big mooo and they seperated, next I seen a few deer, to far away for a pic,Then I saw a wild dog chase some pelicans on the bank, I saw this dog about 6 months ago as well.Then my old mate the turkey when I got back to the ramp, he is hard to keep out of the boat.
Anyway on the fishing front, several bass trolling and finished up with a few on shrimp, then home before I burnt to a crisp. 43 bass no yellas.
Dino

Once again had to rely on Rick towing the boat as my xtrail still suffering from so far unfixable electrical gremlins.
 Took a while to locate some fish we tried in usual haunts in the trees but the barred grunter were prolific and we were losing around 20 shrimp between the lone bass. 
Ians island is well and truely out of the water now.
We ended up near the dam wall and found a school of good sized bass in 27 feet of water, Rick had a bit of trouble getting a big girl to swim away so we sent her on her way with one of Binders custom droppers.
Final tally was 27 bass.
Cheers Ray
 
 
 

Thanks for the heads up. I’m afraid the boat is going to have to put up with getting dirty at times. Hopefully it will mean I’m bringing a few keepers in. I used to fish Bribie passage and Moreton a lot when I was younger. I lived on Bribie for about 5 years. My house used to back onto Dux Creek before the marina even went in.

YouTube of the 200 pro was in action below:
 

Okay. That answers my question. Salt water fishing it is then. 👍

Nice! Are they good eating?

Aother good day in the PRFMA area at NPD with 40 fish boated by 9am and stopped fishing at 11am with a tally of 72 bass and 3 yellas . We did our 8 redclaw pots on the way back to the ramp and. were pleasantly surprised with a good feed, Got home and put batterys on charge and came inside and had a cold beer and enjoyed 16mm of rain.
Cheers Ray

Late thought - It might pay to check on the water level on the SEQ Water site.

Somerset dam or maroon dam are other good options - little further to drive to though.

Somerset. 

Thanks mate

Now, that worked! Lol. You should probably let your insurance company know about the modifications otherwise they may refuse a future claim.