Nirvana

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.

Sorry about your mate tugger.
I didn't know him.
RIP Lance.

Thanks for letting the forum know, Mark.
Lance and I had our ups and downs, but I am glad to say we finished on the up. He was a always a decent human and a great contributor to the site. Many members of AFO who crossed paths with him will remember him very fondly.
I remember the first time we met at an AFO get together. I noticed he liked a chat and he had a great knowledge on the topics he spoke about. He was also passionate about those topics.
Rest in Piece Lance.

My close friend Lance Collins passed away on Wednesday many of you knew him here and were guided by his fishing knowledge he would pass on selflessly. I am richer for his mateship and will never forget the times we hung out together fishing and camping.
He has suffered some tuff times this year with illness and I'm glad there were some happy times as well fishing together up at 1770 and offshore here in brissy. Please feel free to tell some yarns here about Lance and celebrate the life of a kind, sharing and gentle man.

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. 
 

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. 
 

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. 
 

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. 
 

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. 

Thanks @Nirvana but I think I might give it a miss. As @benno573 said, I don’t really think I need any extra horses!

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.

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.

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.

@shaun1800 and I headed out at gentleman's hours from a very busy Port of Brisbane ramp this morning. Conditions were great and better than forecast. We arrived at spot x and deployed our lines, with Shaun opening the account with an unders squire. This was the theme for the day with grassies, squire, bream, tuskies and a fantail leatherjacket.
In amongst them were two decent hookups and one capture. Shaun, who was playing on 4lb line, locked horns with what we thought was going to be a snapper or mack. He played it like a champ and patiently brought it to the boat after some very good runs. I slipped the net under what turned out to be one of those clean silvery bay catfish. Disappointed, Shaun declined the offer of a photo, feeling a little deflated after the promising start.
About 15 minutes prior to this my 15lb setup got absolutely smashed. It reefed me before I could tighten the drag right up. I'm suspecting it was a good snap and was disappointed to wind in a roughed up leader.
So, tonight I'm heading back for the high tide to have another go with heavier gear. Who knows, I might be able to get my hook back.

A couple of spare days and good weather lined up so I packed up the yak with camping gear and paddled to peel island for an overnighter; a trip I've had in mind for a while. 
After loading the tent, bedding and a plethora of the usual camping utensils I had room left for approximately 2 potatoes (and of course I had enough space for a coffee grinder and filter setup). The plan was to catch a fish for dinner or go hungry.
Upon arrival and setting up camp I had a much needed nap, followed by a sleepy trudge across the flats with a fishing rod in hand. Second cast in I got a nice flathead for dinner. That was a bit easy for a change 😂
A chilled afternoon and early nights sleep was had, and a beautiful glassed out paddle home this morning at dawn.  No more fish to report 

Sounds like a standard trip for me. haha

I went out trolling again this arvo, same spot as yesterday. I went out and found another lure much the same as the one I lost yesterday. Only got one today but definitely happy with it. I let her go too to live another day.

It's a fringe eye flathead.
I think your cross-mating observation is on the money 😂

Hi all
Here is the report from yesterday's session with Kat (@Kat), Greg (@GregOug), and myself (as well as Greg's sons). It was very fun overall, a great cruise through the bay, and we caught lots of fish (even though most were a tad too small). It was good to meet/meet up with more AFO-ers, and I think we all had a great day out. 🙂 Greg, and Kat, sorry if I've missed anything. Like I have said before, I will never be an elephant, therefore my memory isn't the best. Lol. 

Loading up at the ramp
After meeting at Viccy Point Boat Ramp at a bit past 7:30AM, we launched. Kat and I sat in the front of the boat and Greg and co. sat in the back. The boat was extremely fast, bouncing over the tiny chop.  At the first spot, I baited up with a live yabby (Kat had very handily brought a heap so I decided to use one). I had my line in first, and within a minute or so I got a hit. Kat baited up with yabby as well, and despite getting the odd nibble, everyone on the boat failed to get one at the first spot 😞 
We would've drifted/moved a little bit around there, but we didn't move to far. The sounder was showing some fish here as well, so it is a bit of a shame we didn't get any. We then motored along the bay to a rocky edge of the island, and if I recall correctly we were in 8-12M of water. I dropped my live yabby down, as did Kat, and Greg's sons were fishing with squid. I got a pretty good hit straight away which I failed to hook up on, and then Kat was on. This thing showed no sign of stopping, and in fact almost spooled her on the first run. We were chasing the fish, hoping for a real biggun to surface. Then it stopped, and it was a dead weight, and then more and more running! It seemed like a very good fish, that's for sure. Unfortunately it got the better of us and busted Kat off. After re-thinking, we thought it was most likely a big ray due to the fight and how it kept stopping and starting, and due to the very long runs. 
A few more nibbles were had at this spot, but it proved fishless even after X amount of drifts in different depths and quite a few more nibbles. We decided to move on to Potts Point (which Kat recommended - it was very lucky as she knows the area/has seen many boats fishing there so could tell us some spots!). We anchored up, and there was a some decent ground on the sounder. We decided to deploy the berley as well, which was some blocks of pilchard oil. It didn't take long for Kat to get a good bite, which unfortunately decided it didn't want to stay on her hook. Soon after, she got another fair bite. Both these fish seemed quite good, and it is a shame that they were not landed. We sure thought that they could be legal fish. 
Greg's son Alex (Greg my bad if I got names wrong/mixed up) was the first one to hook a fish though. After a short fight, up came a solid 32cm squire. It was measured, but it was also chucked back when we found out it was undersize 😉. I was the next to get a fish, with a record breaking stonking 23cm Tarwhine. It did fight OK for it's size, but that was the main let down about the fish. Kat was consistently getting some small squire as well, all of which seemed to be good fun on her new Nasci.. In fact, she certainly got the most fish of the day as we lost count of them all! Greg and I rigged up a floater, which we hoped a mackerel would chew on (or anything sizeable and tasty), which was basically an unweighted pilly on a set of four gang hooks - no success on that one at that spot. 

A little Tarwhine

One of Kat's squire
When this spot stopped firing, we went to a drop off Greg had marked on his sounder. We anchored up here once again, and we were all doing pretty well (on the small squire at least). I was the first one to catch a fish here, in fact I dropped my squid bit down and I was pretty much on straight away to a 30cm or so squire. Kat got a decent one too, but then they started to get smaller (for both of us up the front anyways). 

Leaving a spot

One of my squire (I think I only got two or three)
It was a while before Greg's sons started pulling them in, but they seemed to be getting slightly larger fish. We kept repositioning the anchor, to get on some better ground, but each time we moved it seemed as though the small ones wanted to follow us 😛. Towards the end of the session (after a LOT of small squire), Tom hooked up to what seemed like a better fish. It was fighting quite well, and when we first saw it we thought it was a sea toad. On closer examination, we realised it was something else entirely! We didn't know at the time what is was. A trevally? Nope, not the right shape. A baby Samsonfish? Hmm, that doesn't look right. A baby AJ? Something like that! (It could also be a Black Banded Amberjack, which @benno573 said... And looks like he is right). 

Another squire

The possibly AJ of sorts
Shortly after this fish (and a couple more small squire), we set off back to the ramp. It was low tide, and boy, was it bad. Most of the time we were in 2M< water, and just about as we were going to get back to the ramp we got stuck. Tom (Greg's son) and Kat had to get out and push us through the water, so Kudos to them! 🙂 Certainly a warning about that ramp, as I reckon if the tide was any lower you practically wouldn't be able to get out to water! 
Thanks for reading the report everyone, I hope you enjoyed. Thanks for the good day out Greg and Kat, it was great fun 🙂 Here are the stats of the trip as well - 
Statistics of trip - 
Tide: 3:25AM, .4M, Low, 9:00AM, 2.1M, High, 3:15PM, .5M, Low
Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent, so not too much run
Weather: A few patches of rain here and there, but otherwise a light gust for the whole day (sunny too)
Bait caught: Kat caught live yabbies the arvo before, but otherwise there was no bait caught
Bait used: Live yabbies, squid, pillies, scad
Tackle Used: I was using a Diawa Shinobi, 10lb braid, 20lb fluorocarbon leader, Venotat rod (6"6'), Kat was using a Shimano Nasci 2500 with 10lb braid (I don't know what rod), Greg had a 12000 baitrunner out on an Abu Garcia rod (I think) with mono, but I don't know the rest because I didn't check. 
Time fished: 8:00AM (or so) until about 3:00PM
Overall Success Rate: 70% - A great day out with some fish landed! 
Cheers Hamish

Good Doggo Chopper! 

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,

It's a catshark.
Legal size for most sharks and rays is 1.5m max.
 
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