Kat

Headed out with 'The Dentist' today. Up at 2.30am for a 5am launch from Mooloolaba.
Headed to the area where we've had success on the grassies in the past. I managed a grassie first cast and then again on the second cast. Not monsters but were big enough to not need to measure them - mid 30's. At the same time, The Dentist was getting snagged and busted off and was retying for most of the first part of the morning.
I thought it would be my day to out-fish him. Wrong. I didn't add a legal fish after those first two. Meanwhile the boat tally went to 8 grassies to low forties (Av size was down a bit this trip), 3 Spanish Flag and a Hussar. Only bothered by a few sharks, but nothing like the Bay. Towards stumps I landed three Red Throat Emperor which was cool to see. Undersized though.
A Wobbygong finished my day. On the way back to the ramp we came upon plenty of schools of Tuna busting up - both Long Tail and Mack.
Thanks for the day, mate.
 
No pics as we didn't have time at the end of the day, due to being delayed because of low discipline levels and having a few casts at the tuna.

Great report and good to see the mojo returning for skipper Ray 😎

Neil the fish whisperer! Are you available for hire? (Asking for a friend).

I bet everyone is glad you found the key with chocolate donuts. There should be more of it.
Funny write-up.

I got an invite from Ray K  and Rick to do a bass trip to Hinze dam this morning.
Ray and Rick have been on skid row of recent times, finding it difficult  to boat any bass at all. Clocking up a few dreaded donut trips in succession - times were  grim for the  2 bass kings.
Desperate times called for desperate measures , so I decided to turn their worlds upside down and shouted chocolate donuts for breakfast before even contemplating dropping a line in the water . We all took our donut medicine and moved on to break the drought.
It was a three step process to get the little blighters biting again.
1. We took our donut medicine at 5.30am , and all agreed to move on from the recent dark times.
2. Rick was assigned the job of  clearing the dam of eels , catfish and  the barred grunter (vermin)  , he did this very well and didn’t  complain too much , he just got on with it and achieved an excellent result.
3 . We then proceeded the catch Bass till the bait ran out .
Success was achieved and the bass boys can now move on and get back to scoring a whole heap more fish.

A few more photos for team south 
Speckled Grunter 210mm
Flathead 310 mm and 375mm
Bream 260mm
Bass 320mm , 290mm amd 315mm






 

Awesome catch.  Well done!

Two more yellow belly, a 53cm and a 57cm.


Actually caught 3 that went 53cm today.

@Allnighter 53cm snapper
https://photos.app.goo.gl/nmoAUyNrcqZ64mYX7

@Allnighter 66cm snapper
https://photos.app.goo.gl/9mQ9VPKYzAy4hZho7

I found no extra problems with coloured Gliss over white...same problems long term though.
With the newer 8, 9 12 and 16 braid lines out there these days that are remarkably thin and either super slick or natural tight weave you will better the casting distance of Gliss.
Do not be afraid to search out 9 or 12 ply braids on Aliesxpress, I am currently using some that is at least as good as Tasline for thin diameter, super supple and super slick....$36ish for 1000m delivered. It is a very good braid for me so far and at that price I don't care if I change it out every year or so.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000588801486.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.29.298fkz1Kkz1Kcp&algo_pvid=13be6c6a-7344-4732-9249-cfda9c4057c0&algo_exp_id=13be6c6a-7344-4732-9249-cfda9c4057c0-14&pdp_npi=4%40dis!AUD!11.33!11.33!!!7.29!7.29!%402103243417090723159276007e833a!10000003450278939!sea!AU!4158163313!&curPageLogUid=t6AI3pUr8FfX&utparam-url=scene%3Asearch|query_from%3A

Awesome catch.  Well done!

2 whiting for team south
370mm and 390mm

Awesome catch.  Well done!

Awesome catch.  Well done!

Hi All,
Joined the Forum one year ago today. Seems like yesterday.
I was made very welcome by a lot of people.
I am having a great time, better than I did on another Forum that was full of fun police.
It is great to read top  posts & being involved.
Cheers.

Glad you're enjoying being here, guys.
Thanks for your contributions.

Happy anniversary @Rebel  I have been part of this forum since 2008 and being based in SEQ like a lot of us, I have made some good friends and fishing buddies over that time. Trolls don’t last long here. They either get banned or lose interest when nobody bites. So good to see people from other parts of Australia contributing to the forum. Hopefully the photo thing will be fixed soon because that adds a lot to the forum. 

Took my brother for a mackerel trip today.
With a week break on the Spanish Mackerel closure opening up today they were the target species.
With  4 super fresh baits  acquired we  went straight to one of my favourite spots ,drove over it , and there was an extremely large school of Mac’s at home , they were stacked 24 metres deep.
I put two  tuna into the water, they were dead but still bleeding , we both knew it was going to be a sure thing that they’d go off super quick . I’d just finished putting the second bait out and the first one went off. Couple of minutes later he was in the esky . My brother turned the boat around and ran back over the fish , I deployed the second bait , it was bang again,  stupidly I grabbed the rod again ,my brother was pissing him self laughing as he knew I was already stuffed from the first fish . After a few swear words , he gaffed the second fish , then we went and got a couple of Grassies before heading home . 





 

Can we ban @Neil Stratford please? I haven’t caught that many fish in the last year, let alone on one trip. Either that, or change each species to list the top ten captures rather than the top three, so I can see my name on there occasionally.

Couple of fish for team south.
tuna 365mm
tuna 330mm
wire netting cod 350mm
wire netting cod 350mm
Spanish Mackerel 1200 mm and 1225mm
Grassy Sweetlip 470, 450 and 405mm

Yep it was 71!  Much to my disgust 😸

Yep it was 71!  Much to my disgust 😸

Yep it was 71!  Much to my disgust 😸

Yep it was 71!  Much to my disgust 😸