Thinking of fishin scarby reef friday night. They are predicting strong westerlies. wont go if to windy but wondering how dangerous it would be. I know south easters are no good but westerlies flaten the sea besides the annoying wind.
Could some experience fishos give me some advise.
Cheers
you should be safe as long as it is 20knots or below, but it would be freezing. You are a lot keener than me.
Marty.
mate thats keen. should be ok if u keep reddy side. it seems to really chop up on bribie side, just when u stick ur neck out around the corner. the whole stretct out front is good on westerly.
good luck
greg
Should be OK near the shore as you'd be in the lee.
Depending on the size of your boat, I'd suggest launching from the ramp at Queens Beach North.
Luc
Mate that will be interesting in your 4.5 metre tinny.
Dont forget to pack the arctic survival gear,though.
Hope you get a few to make it worthwhile.
Scott
Make sure you get a good anchor hold if you fish the mainland side of the reef. If it lets got those westerlies wont take long to ground you on the reef.
The big worry tho will be the wind chill factor its forecast cold and windy and scarby would be on par with Stanthorpe for chill factors.
Jack
the westerlys are gone. seabreeze says s/e, so forget it
Thanks for all the info. Might stay in with the heater and hope the wind lets us fish through the day.
Cheers
geez there's a lot of people frightened of the cold here.
If I get the chance to go fishing, I'll go regardless of tempreture. In fact the cold just makes me drink more port.
The port might be why you are known as sandbankmagnet...LOLOriginally Posted by sandbankmagnet
geez there's a lot of people frightened of the cold here.
If I get the chance to go fishing, I'll go regardless of tempreture. In fact the cold just makes me drink more port.
Marty.
If you are in Western Australia, westerlies are good, so I guess the answer is, depends on where you want to fish, if it is 20 miles out to sea, a westerlie is not such a good thing, but if you are close in, no worries at all, and if there is some sort of high cliffs on shore, then it will be great!!
Marty, I'll find em when I haven't had a drink for days.
Usually it's trying to find a good crabbing spot though.
However the port was responsible for me going over at about 2am in my waders fishing for bream in 5 degrees last full moon. Didn't get in the waders, but my arm and shoulder sure got chilly. And I dropped the fish..
Ended up on on the lee of an island a few years back where we experienced a lovely storm as only the roaring forties can whip them up in the south Atlantic. -30 deg C for two days.
Ever since then I have promised myself, anything less than 18 deg C and I am not interested........
and dont even start with that nonsens I hear from some Canadians..... "but it is a dry cold!" Stuff it, see yus when the sun comes back.
W
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