Scott nthQld
17-08-2008, 07:15 PM
Well, what a very slow weekend fish wise. With only 10knt winds forecast for Saturday 3 boat loads of Ausfish members set out for Maggie Island, all pulling very little results. I had Rod Fishing on board, and after a non event near Orchard Rock, he suggested heading out to the shoals chasing a few nannygai, but stupid me didn't bring the chart (but i've now got a water proof case and it will stay in the boat now) so we had to stick around maggie. We tried a bit of trolling and searching a couple of new marks (thanks Rod) but there was nothing around, even bait was very scarce. So we headed around the back of the Island and tried Liver and Westpoints fishing almost the entire water column, and dumping shiteloads of berley over the side, but we simply couldn't raise a scale amid the torment of lack of fish were the constant jeers of me being the remora king coming from another boat load of Ausfishers (Dan and Matt, you've jinxed me for life you bastards).
We tried one more spot near Burdekin rock, where I upheld my kingly title, pulling in a remora on the last drop (shouldn't have mentioned that, but at least I caught something with gills, which is more that I can say for Dan). Well we called it a day and scooted over a glassed out bay, watching Matt as he almost ran aground on a very shallow sand bar.
After that debacle, I joined my brother, and headed to the Cape today (Sunday) and once we rounded the cape we were greeted by a stiff 25knt breeze, not good in a 4.8m tinny, so we had a quick troll and headed back inside to the weedbeds, in hope of some mackeral. Well they were there alright, all undersize, ranging between 25cm and the biggest at 45cm, but they kept us entertained, especially when I floated a piece of pilly down the berley trail on my 6lb flick stick. Not many decent fish around on the weekend, but better than being on dry land doing nothing. After boating what felt like hundreds of these live bait sized mackeral (OK, I exaggerate, maybe 30-40 in total). We headed across a very chopped up bay for home.
Hopefully things improve on the fishing front for me soon, I've only 3 feeds of fish left in the freezer now.
We tried one more spot near Burdekin rock, where I upheld my kingly title, pulling in a remora on the last drop (shouldn't have mentioned that, but at least I caught something with gills, which is more that I can say for Dan). Well we called it a day and scooted over a glassed out bay, watching Matt as he almost ran aground on a very shallow sand bar.
After that debacle, I joined my brother, and headed to the Cape today (Sunday) and once we rounded the cape we were greeted by a stiff 25knt breeze, not good in a 4.8m tinny, so we had a quick troll and headed back inside to the weedbeds, in hope of some mackeral. Well they were there alright, all undersize, ranging between 25cm and the biggest at 45cm, but they kept us entertained, especially when I floated a piece of pilly down the berley trail on my 6lb flick stick. Not many decent fish around on the weekend, but better than being on dry land doing nothing. After boating what felt like hundreds of these live bait sized mackeral (OK, I exaggerate, maybe 30-40 in total). We headed across a very chopped up bay for home.
Hopefully things improve on the fishing front for me soon, I've only 3 feeds of fish left in the freezer now.