Nirvana

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.
 

Unfortunately, if you actually read the article, instead of just referencing it, you realise that the study only refers to a few of the top of the tree sharks such as great whites and tiger sharks. I am not surprised they have declined. The other species of sharks below them have exploded in numbers to the point where the largest species are fighting to get enough food. Never fear though, whale populations have also exploded since whaling was banned and when these huge, long lived creatures start to die, there will be plenty of their previously primary source of food available for the top predatory sharks, and their numbers can then increase to the point where the lesser sharks already are. 

Yeah, someone got bit by a shark out off Townsville
yesterday but no details as yet.
Sounded like it was while diving or on one of the islands.

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!

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!

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!

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!

I remember watching a doco on bulls a long time ago where they were in the water with a few of them, suggesting they were fine. Then one bit the guy on the leg. I had a chuckle. No, I wouldn't get in the water with one.

Who would be game enough to pat this fella after just reeling him in?

Would you be game to give this 'monster' bull shark a pat? 😲 🦈

This three-metre beauty was recently reeled in off Fraser Island and was calm enough for the fisherman to give him a cuddle before setting him free.
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The forecast was superb. 10 knots max that on the 55 foot boat is nothing at all. 

We flew into Townsville and had few frothy ones at the Seaview Hotel before sleeping on the boat for the night. Well sleeping is a word... I got unlucky and grabbed the front bunk room. It is tiny and hard to get into and contained a walrus snorer. So not much sleep but at least I was up and ready when the motors kicked into life for the 4am leave. 
Lures were put out the back in the dark with skirted and bibbed in a spread of 3. The boat does about 9 knots so only the short billed diving lures would stay in the water. 
Grey dawn soon became a pink glow and the sun popped up as we passed the last of the ships waiting to dock. 
A few frothy chops later the drags screamed and we pulled in a couple of good sized Mac Tuna. I cut up one half for a sashimi breakfast and the rest went to hard baits. 
We steamed for about 3 hours and landed at the first spot where we dropped 100lb paternosters in 45m of water. The Nannies were waiting for us and we pulled in about 12. I got the best at 84cm but Rob got a cracking Red. They went off the chew and we moved to the next spot. 


That was pretty much us for the day. They men in grey suits were thick everywhere. We moved about 6 times and didn't bring in another whole fish. I know I had on some thumping Reds and pulled in 2 heads that proved this. 

We moved to the anchorage and caught a great Spanish and Wahoo on the lures. Even the decky wanted a photo with the hoo.

As we approached the anchorage the Shark Mackerel were thick. Everyone on the boat had a go at bringing them in. 

Day 2 started out pretty much the same. Shark Shark Shark...

This was getting crazy frustrating. The skipper moved a few times but we didn't do very well at all. The skipper said to relax as we were to travel for over an hour to try and escape the sharks. We went to a mark called "Loads of F%$#$%g huge fish" that sounded nice. 
We pulled up and were straight on! Big Large mouth nannies and I finally got a Red. Not a big one but it made the eski. (one of my mates took a photo... so I will post it later)
We pulled lots of good fish off this spot. Mostly Large Mouth Nannies but a few Small Mouth Nannies too. 
Then the sharks moved in. They came up to the boat. there were about 12 of them circling and looking for dinner. Such big machines. It was hard to identify them, besides I am not very good at it yet but hope to get better. The skipper tied some mono to the tail of a large Shark Mackerel and threw it over. They came in closer and they were formidable to see. One of them effortlessly and with no fuss turned to the Mackerel and before the skipper had time to pull it out of the way engulfed the whole thing. The skipper was keeping the fish away from the sharks hoping to entice them closer but the way this brute closed the gap on the big bait was eerily cool and ominously fast. No swimming here...
We went into a shallower spot, about 25m, for the night. A few trout were caught but we waited for the sun to dip. Pretty much on que the fishing started to heat up. RT Emps, Pink Cheaked Emps lots of tea leaf and bluger trevallies hit the decks. I was busted off so many times. I was using Hussar heads and big chunks of Mac Tuna and Shark Mackerel for baits on my Tyrnos 20 on a short ugly stick with 80lb line. Leader was 100lb mono tied with a FG and made into a paternoster with single hook and #8 snapper lead. 
Then all hell broke loose. thumping head shakes buckled the rod. I had been catching big fish for 2 days (well hooking them and loosing to sharks mostly) so knew to get a few desperate winds in to get it off the bottom, but in the shallower water the fish takes on another dimension, running sideways and the short rod made it hard to stop the line from touching the boat. I had the drag set to STOP so lost very little line but the head shakes thumped down hard, testing the already torched back and arms. After a few mins I started getting line back and soon the fish made it to the surface. The skipper yelled REEF JACK and sprinted for the gaff. He hit is perfectly in the head and it was on board. Such an epic fish. My first big Jack and one I am very happy with. This photo was taken the next day, you can see it's eyes are cloudy, it had spent the night in the ice slurry.  I have more photos on other people's cameras that I hope to get back soon including one on a brag mat. Yep POIDH.... coming haha. 
The fish went off the chew and we settled into some serious drinking. 
I got up early and floated out a pilly and fished the bottom with only one run but no success. 

this was our last day now. We had 5 hours of steaming and flights booked for about 5.30pm. 
We went to the same spot that had produced the fish the day before without the sharks and picked up another 20 good fish including, Nannies, one smaller Red Emp, trevs and some Frying Pan Snapper. 

There was only one more stop on the list and we hit it and caught a few more fish but nothing remarkable. We had a very nice looking eski for the day already.

The steam home saw a Mac Tuna on the troll on a Skirted Lure and a few beers.
Over all it was a great trip. I took about 20kg of fillets home including the big dog that has mostly been eaten. I spent a bit of time cutting out its jaw and have it on an ants nest in a besser block with another on top so the dog and crows wont get it. 
We all caught good fish but man I was sore. The number of fish that got eaten by sharks was crazy. It is so exhausting to try and hold up a rod at full drag when a shark is tearing off... But worth it haha. 
I will do it again. 🙂

Here are a few more photos.  
 




We were on Sir Reel from Northern Conquest. 
https://www.nccharters.com.au/

Report to come. Here is a little teaser. 
Trip was great, weather perfect. The tax man took WAY TOO MANY of the best fish sadly but we got a few past them. Including this nice little Mangrove Jack.
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Good luck mate. Sounds like a well deserved trip. 

Good luck mate. Sounds like a well deserved trip. 

has happened to me... ouch. Oh well at least I saved a donut. 🙂
 

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

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

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

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

Hey Nirvana
It'll be good if you can get some holidays - anything that swims is a broad goal 🙂 
Good luck on the offshore trips.
Cheers Hamish

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. 

@dhess Head out on Friday around the cape.  We hit the FAD but BigCat charters was sitting on top of it and we only managed one hit on a slug. Started float lining and also had a paternoster down do see what was around.  Managed a lot of pannie Snapper without any size, undersized pearlies and a good Samson which gave a good account for itself and my biggest.  
 
We head out deeper and this is where the fun started. We still had the just over snapper which we returned hoping for a couple Of bigger units to round out the bag and it was not long.
 
Firstly I should mention when we arrived at the Mark there was another boat drifting it. Rather than just drop in on them or drive away we slowly motored up to them asked if it was ok to join them and work in with their drifts.  All good from them and we started drifting.
Dom was first on with a good fish landing a mid 60s snapper.  We fished here a bit longer but no quality so moved onto a nearby mark. 
 
This is where the day got interesting. I dropped down the paternoster and as soon as it hit the bottom, whack, whack and I fell on my arse still holding onto the rod. It was an unusual fight but very solid. I get it up and see colour and I have a mid 60s snapper and a 70 yellow tail kingfish. That explains a lot.  Dom is then onto a massive fish which he man handles at first but the fish quickly man handles Dom and bricks him. Probably a big YTK. 
 
Home through the rough bay at dusk and quick trip home and I filleted the Samson and YTK for some sashimi that night. So dam good. Hard to pick a favourite.  Well worth the effort of preparing sashimi. My favourite way of eating fish. 
 
 



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I planning on targeting a fishing spot. One that actually has fish.

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. 

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.