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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!

5 hours ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Well technically since humans can swim you can jag your fishing buddy and then count that as that goal

Cheers Hamish

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

Good luck mate. Sounds like a well deserved trip. 

2 hours ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

anything that swims is a broad goal  

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. 

On 10/10/2020 at 5:57 PM, Breaming with bro said:

They look nasty never heard of them lmao must have been a interesting job

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.

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.

18 hours ago, GregOug said:

My 200hp engine is exactly the same engine as the 300hp. What in heck do you do to an engine to get an extra 100hp out of it!

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,

Some good advice above. Before i write i want to say, safety first Always. No one wants to hear of another boat going over out there. 

I dont know what boating experince you have if none/ not much i would say the boats a bit small. If your experinced i would say maybe. Anyway in the winter on nice day the boat would be fine IMO this is becuase the weather generally stays the same all day. In summer the day starts out beautiful with no wind at all, but in a few hours time the northerlys of anywhere from 15-30knots kick up. Trust us, Mud is not the place you want to be in a 3.7m tinny in 25-30 northerly. If you are unlucky enough to be out there in a strong outgoing tide, waves would be 2-2.5m and really steep. Green, St Helena and Mud have a truckload of tide which makes the waves really stand on you (you probably already know this stuff). 

If the weather looks good and you just go for a quick look to Green you would Probably be right providing your back before 10-11am. 

Plently of Guys have come unstuck over the years in that region when the weather kicks up so no matter what boat your in, remember to stay safe.

6 hours ago, Another Wazza said:

Nice work @Another Wazza. Was that West Peel arti? 

Hey mate, without giving too much away , I got them not too far from West Peel, as for the artificial there, I have been told by a reputable friend that it can fish very well, however, certain sections of it fish better then others, and there is a lot of homework to do, I too was like Drop Bear and didn’t have much hope for it, the structure is a far cry from the pipes and other goodies out at Harry’s, but I don’t see them adding to it anytime soon, you live in hope, and die in despair.

As for the houseboat wreck, I haven’t pulled anything great off it, I’ve had much better success about 500 metres away, in saying that though, the fish aren’t always there either

Cheers for the info mate. I reckon after the 500m comment i might not be the only one from this forum having a sound around that area this weekend. 

80hp on a 4m tinny! Mate you must fly. Have you got any photos? It has got to be a plate boat, you would have folded the transome if it was a press boat for sure? it might be about time to upgrade boat if your thinking a 115.

@kmcrosby78 2 strokes have got more go than 4 strokes. 

I have seen blokes with as big as 60hp on seawasps which are 4m. I have a 30 on mine but would by a 50 if i had my time again.

The tinny bashing kids/ adults on the gold coast put massive engines on little tinnys all the time.

Nice work @Another Wazza. Was that West Peel arti? It doesnt say in his report. I think i might have a sound around if anything looks interesting i will have a cast otherwise i might go for a look elsewhere. 

The boys at the Pub keep telling me stories about the houseboat but i have been fishing it occasionally for 3 or 4 years and wouldnt have pulled 2 decent fish of it. My niggling suspicion that the "boys" are full of ____ is becoming a relization. 

Theres plenty of good ground in that vicinity that is more promising so if i get anything good there i will post pics and a report here.

I am thinking about going for a look over West Peel Arti Reef in the coming weekends. Last time that i went for a sound over it i was hardly impressed, the marks that i have on the reef balls are flat as a pancake, with no shows of fish in the vicinity. That was May last year though.

Is it worth my time? Have any of you guys got anything on it? On nice days you see heaps of people over there but whether they catch anyhting is a different story.

Jeezus nice show on the sounder. Good tips as well. 62cm is pretty good for the southern bay by my standards anyway. It was a cracker afternoon to be out. Maybe my contributation is Fresh Bait, bait from the servo is not going to cut it.

Note to self: If @Allnighteris at the ramp rigged up for snapper fishing follow him! (Just kidding of course)

17 hours ago, Junky said:

Nothing worse imo. And yes, feel free to inform them. Information is free and hopefuly lessons can be learnt. 

I can understand a 200m gap but some skippers want to run the sounder over your line and check if the bait is still on the hook. 

I yelled that to a bloke one day at harries and he actually looked back down at his sounder and looked up and said "I can't see it".

Well with that answer it was my que to inform him of his questionable tactics. 

 

A little bit of boating etiquet goes along way. 

Forget social distancing, how about boating distancing.

 

 I dont know if it is just a coincidence but the guys who are guilty of pulling right up beside me always have all of the fruit. New boats, Min Kota, 50 rods, pumping music and the entire simrad catalog worth of electronics. Reminds me of saying "all the gear, no idea".

It seems like some peoples preferred method of finding whiting is to pull up right beside other people. Which is rather annoying, not that you can complain when you are having a great day on the water.

Thats an awesome thing to do mate. Good Luck, i will have to get a donation in. 

5 hours ago, aussie123 said:

There is an entrance to both North West Island and Fitzroy Reef.

Maybe at high tide for northwest. Fitzroy was blasted out at the same time as lady musgrave. Fitroy just doesnt have an Island. The entrance is about 10-20ft deep.I slept in the boat last time i went there.