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Great for all of us at home to see this one caught and Hamish finally staying home for a day or two! Well done Hamish - a huge effort of early starts and long days!

Yes a folding esky sounds good - I can feel one coming on for Christmas!

Deja vu for me with the last big threadfin you caught Hamish - the call for help - "fish has gone belly up bring the esky". Big difference this time was you looked after everything when we get home including all the filleting. Hopefully will taste good as we've a fair bit to get through! Any other tips from folk on how to keep these big ones alive? Maybe the time you had to take getting it landed after it surfaced was an issue - being solo without a net.

Both fish did taste particularly good - and all I had to do was eat what was served up since Hamish cleaned and cooked them . A better start to the school holidays than usual! Fingers crossed they keep biting!

Well isn't that a summer full of fishing!!! @Old Scaley I can tell you it took a long time to write. It seemed he was on this report for days banging away on the laptop. We told him it would conquer most readers! Anyway great stories for the 2021/22 summer holidays. Given the number of bust offs and misses on the real fish I'm certainly feeling guilty about the poor netting attempt that would have at least seen another threadfin officially caught (although as I say to Hamish at least he has video footage and the fish was good as caught..) Hopefully next summer there will be a higher conversion rate on the good ones. On the plus side all the riding towing a buggy has done marvels for his fitness level......

Sounds a great day of fishing while I was falling asleep at the desk after the early early drive across town. I should have taken the day off and joined you all!

Hey Hamish great job with the reports - not sure how you managed to remember them all! Glad the last trip was a success! Worth the early getup and drive for me!

Bad luck no squire for you Hamish! Nice day out for the family aside from the rocky start!

Looks like it was the perfect day to be out in the bay and enough action to keep things interesting. Would have liked to have been there myself rather than in the office!

Yes frustrating with the sounder bombing out after a good run with it the other week. I was looking forward to finding out how deep it is under the Indro bridge. We'll have it sorted for next trip.. No fish but plenty of km's paddling = great exercise Fun night

It was a fun little session. Not sure what was best - pulling up a couple or watching Hamish's smile as he kept whipping them in a short space of time (we were on a time leash......)

Life is looking up - young fella comes homes with a fish, fillets it, cooks it up and serves it out on the table for dinner. Delicious! Big thanks to @Old Scaleyfor taking @AUS-BNE-FISHOout today and finishing off the holidays with a great trip!

Good job Hamish. Now you have your wheels sorted less driving for me!

Hi everyone, thanks for the comments/suggestions. Seems we might have a dud ( @christophagus) but a few more checks in order: - battery recharge. Should have been good but certainly will charge up and run again as easy check. - will do another water run in the pool this weekend to see if it gives a standard screen. @AUS-BNE-FISHOcan be the underwater fish..... - if it seems okay I'll try another mount. I've attached a pic of last one. I'm not really sure what the thong/rubber mount was meant to do vs mount direct to bottom but Hobie mounting guy had noted it was their standard arrangement. When I took it off I checked for air bubbles and actually seemed fine - both mount to bottom and mount to the thong @Junky I'll let you know how we go Cheers

Phew that took some reading! No wonder you were on the computer for so long today! Only a few typos @AUS-BNE-FISHO but good wrapup! The sounder on the kayak was a real disappointment - I was looking forward to getting a read on the depth of the water in some of the places @AUS-BNE-FISHO fishes. I mounted the sonar head in a similar fashion to a bloke I met a few weeks back - who had some tips from Hobie. Silastic a small piece of rubber/thong on the bottom of the yak and then silastic the sonar head to the top of the thong being careful not to have any trapped air bubbles. Visually it looked like his but clearly was far from working given the screenshot above. I've had it out before just holding the sonar head and worked okay. Anyway I've pulled it out and will check it in the pool before trying another method. This time I will make a snug well out of polystyrene, silastic that in then fill it with a little bit of water with the sonar head placed inside. We'll see how that goes...... At least the battery mount worked fine .....