Nirvana

I reckon your keen swimming in more than waist to chest deep water at fraser. Some of the monsters guys like this bloke and team madmullet haul out of those waters scare the bejesus out of me. Kurt from team madmullet swims them back out after catching them at night in about chest deep water! He leaves me thinking bloody hell mate!

Sounds like a cracker trip mate. So you reckon there are a few noahs out there? I am suprised more people dont get eaten by sharks to be honest. Good to see you got a few fish away from them, you will be eating like a king with 20kg of fillets!

Or stand on my hook. Mission accomplished. Time for a beer.

Good luck mate. Sounds like a well deserved trip.

Yeah, atleast i cant fail then! ( or can i?)

Yup im (hopefully) getting a couple months off for christmas so will be targeting anything that swims. My mates just bought a new boat so me and him are planning some offshore trips. Him in his 6m platey and me in the wasp. I would love to hit up my old stomping grounds off south straddie as well. So hopefully some big fish and reports to come.

Where abouts at moreton are you thinking? I have camped at the Sandhills and they were not terrible but around. Never had a problem at bulwer either. But (yes there is always a but). I camped on the boat one time at Kooringal in days gutter (out the front of the gutter bar). It was with my now wife then girlfriend who i had decided to invite out. It was a still night and had rained heavily the week before. Oh my god. I have never seen so many sandflies and mossies in my life. We just got eaten the whole night. The tide was out so we couldnt even move the boat somewhere else. Pretty good third or fourth date anyway. My advice, try not to pick a time after it has rained.

Very good advice above. Definetly agree with the lightbar comment about them being next to useless in open water. I have a spotlight that goes into a ciggy lighter socket, not that i use it very often apart from looking for crab pots at night. People anchored with no lights annoy me as well. Even worse if they are planing towards you with no navs it is just dangerous (especially if you have no navs either). If i am fishing somewhere that isnt popular than i most likely wont put an anchor light on. If i see or hear someone coming i turn a torch on to show im here.

I unfortunately never got to meet him either but have been reading his past posts with interest. Condolences to his friends and family. It sounds like he has made a postive impact on those around him and is an allround good bloke as well as gun fishermen. Rest In Peace mate.

I think it would have been interesting too. He reckons that you are away to often for too long and dont get paid all that well anymore. He got in when he was 19 and out at 24. Made his money and ran to be an electrician.

My dad used to work on the longline boats out of Mooloolaba back in the day. He reckons that he has pulled up some freaky looking sh!t that he has never seen in any books. According to him you would occasionally hook a "Lacetfish". They would not even bring these things on the boat. They had an "unhook" tool to get them off. He reckons that a bloke who he used to go to the pub with didnt have feeling in his hands after being bitten by one and had to wait 3 days with a bandage around his hand to get home before being put in hospital.

As long as it is the same block. You should be able to do it. I havent done it myself on a modern 4 stroke but i would assume it is just an ECU maybe exhaust ports might be different. Think of it as a 300hp that is missing 100hp. The computers inside are what makes it less powerful.

Your killing me mate! Im out west at the moment for work, i am itching to get home for some fishing and time on the water in general. Beautiful photos by the way. Sounds like an awesome trip.

Yeah gummy are supposed to be nice eating. My mate ate Bull shark once and reckoned it tasted like absoulute dog turd. I put the same bully meat in a crab pot and the crabs wouldnt touch it either.

Over the last 9 months i have had a hydrofoil fitted to my outboard. I originally fitted it becuase when the boat was loaded up it would fall off the plane at about half throttle, and would occasionally bounce if loaded to much at the stern. The foil has fixed these problems but, when going diagonal to the weather, the tiller gets heavy and tries to pull out of your hand. Not unholdable heavy but enough to be a pain in the arse when your an hour or more away from the ramp. What experinces do you guys have with the hydrofoils? Does your tiller do the same thing? I want to hear it Cheers,