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Hi all,
New to the forum and have just purchased a 5m Quinnie. Looking to take the boys out this weekend around maggie or the budekin rocks weather permitting. Has anyone got any advice on where they have been biting, whats been biting and any bait tips would be great. As mentioned, new to the boat scene and looking to have a great weekend any help greatly appreciated.
I have more success around middle reef when the water is a lot cleaner than it is now, but its always worth a shot. The shallow reefs along the western side of maggie are good to, and nice and close.
To get into some cleaner water, follow Rod's advice and head to rattlesnake, be sure to check the paper and with the RAAF to make sure there will be no live firing when you do though.
You could head up the shipping channel and give the deeper water off Orchard rocks a go as well.
Is it a big trek over to rattlesnake from the coast guard ramp? I've got a 90hp 2str on the new boat. Would be a bit steady navigating the mouth of the bohle as my experience with that is non existant...
Thanks for your help so far, this forum is worth it weight in gold.
You wil have to watch the Bohle channel, as it may have changed significantly with all the water that went through there over the last couple of weeks. As a guess though with your size quinnie and engine weight, I reckon you would need at least 0.7-0.8m of water under you to get through. Going from the bohle is a bit closer, but on the grand scale, you would be travelling an extra10-15km one way if leaving from the coast guard ramp.
A tip for the Bohle is to get there early in the morning (sit and wait on one of the rock bars at the mouth with a live mullet soaking for a chance at a barra) and watch other boaties head out through the channel and follow in their tracks, keeping pace with them, as you do travel higher up in the water when at speed.
but there is plenty of good fishing to be had around Maggie at westpoint and bayrock, middle reef, and orchard rocks (as mentioned earlier) just to name a few. If you do decide to have a crack at rattlesnake, remember to have all your safety gear, including epirb, charts (hard copies, electronic devices don't satisfy requirements as they can fail), compass, radio (don't forget the aerial), vsheet, flares, as well as all the equipment required for inshore waters
Totally agree with Scott Nthqld. If you go to Rattlsnake, pick up a couple Rapala red and white lures with the metal bib, you can't go wrong we collared two GT's last weekend out there around the island. Bohle had heaps of water running out but hopefully the level has dropped"See Meet and Greet section and read the forum on Nasties off NQ Coast". Give you an idea of what can be floating off the coast with this weather. But just remember, take it easy and be very observant of your conditions, if the swell is like a washing machine stay closer to shore, especially if your kids are young, far offshore and a seasick kid aren't a recipe for a good day. West Point can fire up pretty good, but Rattle has plenty of shoals and reef around the island, TRICK peel your prawns!!
Hey all,
if you are planning on trying to navigate your way out of the bohle channel than think again for the channel is no more. I was down there a few weeks ago and the only way to get out of there is on a mid to high tide.
There is a 6 meter hole then it goes to 20cm deep of water over a sandbar which is easily 100 meters long. Just pick your tides, launch from pallarenda ramp or bohle, and make sure you know what the winds are doing for they pick up really quickly around that area i have found.
Regards,
Chris
Gilli
Most sports require one ball..... Fishing requires two
GO326Q
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Re the Shoals from memory they are about 20-25km from the coast guard ramp not 50 km out. 50km out would put you around the bomber if you went that far you are almost certain to bring home a good feed.
Let us all now how you got on today, perfect weather, I went out wth another member from this site and we did okay couple of longtail Tuna good fight and a GT. Enough for a good feed. We porbably should have headed out wider but I thought that we would just hang around the Rattlesnake area and have a fish.
Yeah I couldn't have picked a better weekend for trying out the new boat. We hit burdekin rock at sunup and fished without luck for a couple of hours. Many boats came and went without luck also. We then trundled back to west point and had a bit of an uneventful troll and anchored up for the high tide at bay rock. right at the turn of the tide they came on the bite and we caught and released about 10 coral trout and a small GT just not big enough to bag, but heaps of fun. We did however land a very nice grunter which cooked up very nicely. All in all a great day on the water. Only let down was a blown tyre on the boat trailer after pulling the boat out at the ramp. Job for the week entails purchasing a spare for the tralier. about the only bas i didn't have covered.... Murphy's Law. Thank god that Bob jane is open till 4pm on a saturday!!
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