Northern 29's on kroozin'

[revs57]

Swano and i accompanied Mark in his new 685 Cruisey Kroozin today. What a lovely piece of kit, set up with all the bling and a purpose built fishing machine. With only 10 hrs on the clock we headed from Manly Harbour around 5.30am to find the paddock flat and the northern access almost flat enough to ski across.

We headed to a mark on the northern 29's that has been good to us in the past, plenty of show but little go. We worked to the east and weest of that rock, worked all kinds of plastics and eventually conceded to bait, foul hooked heaps of unders on the placcies, and picked up sized squapper, justers, on bait. Moved on to another rock further up the system for a few nice moses and there was a very nosey spanish that eyed our baits on the drop but we couldn't intice him.

We moved north to tempest for much the same. We came home with a feed, but not much to rave about and certainly nothing worth a photo...the snapps must still be deep.

All in all a great day on the water...cracker conditions, a great day with a couple of good mates, loved the 685, nearly as good a ride as Flamin Riptide but I must say the 250 'zuke that was pushing us along is an animal!!!!

yep, the snapps must still be deep!

Thanks Mark and Swano for a great day

Cheers

Rhys

[captain rednut]

hi rhys
i spent last nite at shallow tempest and tried deep too, we moved around and tried everything and today we fished around wide caloundra area and still only for a couple of keepers, i couldnt believe how quiet the fishing was today, i also noticed very few boats out today and didnt even see one last nite considering calm it was. cheers jim

[revs57]

G'day Jim, yeh it was really quiet, probably the smallest neap tides for the year so not a lot of run. An d some 280 boats are at Fraser at the moment for little return so i understand...its all about phase of the moon and tide...I reckon the snapps are still in 80 mts plus but lets keep at it anyway!

cheers

Rhys

[Frank OO]

Hi Rhys, About time you got into a classy boat. All it needs is a flaming paint job.

I absolutely love mine but twin 250s would have been a better fit.

Great day on the water beats a hard day's work.

Frank OO

[Pual44]

Yeh, have to agree. Fished Deep Tempest Sunday. Turned out to be a glorious

day.

The biggest fsnapper we could find went about 1.5 kgs.

Plenty of little tikes but nothing of size except for the men in grey suits. Got

sharked 4 times. That is 4 more times than usual. Hope they piss off soon.

It was very quiet out there till lunch time. Ah well I'll just have keep going until

I get a big one.

Cheers

[Fixation]

Hey Rhys,

Mate it must have been a glorious day on the water. I looked at the wind readings this morning and it sounded pan cake flat to me.
Bummer about the fish. At least you weren't getting bashed round in a sea though.
Sounds like you still caught a feed. Keep your chin up buddy. The knobs are only just round the corner.

Talk to you soon.
Craig.

[wags on the water]

Gday Rhys,
It certainly was a great day on the water. A real shame the biguns still aren't playing the game, although Brett did get bricked by a monster of the deep. We came back in on dusk at speed as the conditions improved a lot.

Cheers,

Wags

[revs57]

I reckon Mark is a bit too conservative for a flame job on his new cruisey Frank...I was amazed at how much like the Riptide it felt in the water, certainly the glass gave it a slightly softer/supple feel, but in terms of attitude and behaviour very similar. My Riptide has a planing plank so it rides high in the bum, when I checked out the hull shape on the cruisey, it has very similar planing plank, similar V and dead rise - I've come away very impressed with both boats. Often you wonder about the difference between plate and glass, you hear the retoric, but in comparison, there was little difference in my opinion although i would expect the platey to feel "tighter" - it would be interesting to compare them on a rougher day. Mate, Marks boat was pretty punchy with one 250 'zuke, are you pushing yours with 2? It must be a weapon!!!

Yeah Pual, its just a matter of keeping at it, doing the stuff that you know to be right, eventually they will chew. I've wondered if all the nutrients in the water from the summer rain has caused the bait to come in, and they are just not hungry - but no one is getting onto them from all reports so they must still be in the deep. I understand that snapper don't migrate so much north/south, but traverse East/west from deep to shallow as they do their thing.

Craig it was a cracker of a day, the cruisey clipped along easily at 50klm/hr @4200 rpm, returning around 1.2 klm/litre according to the gauges. Not too bad for a new motor. I would expect it to improve as it loosens up. Mark sure has it set up nicely.
Swano and I said on the way home how good it was to be out on a good day, not getting knocked around. Yep, we'll keep at it. Have to do a trip soon mate, before number one deckie arrives. Once he arrives, everything will change!!!!

Yeah Wags, the larger variety are still shy, where did you guys head?

Cheers

rhys

[backlash08]

Thanks for the report Rhys, a little suprising that the snapps arnt around yet and yes the CC are a nice thing arnt they!
Good to hear the +ive report on the 250 Suke, that whay the new fisher will have on it in about 12 weeks

Cheers

Craig

[dayoo]

Rhys,

Frank and I fished on "Baitrunner" off the southern end of Frazer 40 nautical miles out last Sunday for average catch of reefies. No snapps or pearlies there at the moment.
Will have to get you out on "Alexander" the weapon for a real ride with the twin 250's opened up its like a rocket sled.

[rat_catcher]

.........and certainly nothing worth a photo...

How about some piccies of the boat then? We need something to drool over!

[rat_catcher]

......the cruisey clipped along easily at 50klm/hr @4200 rpm, returning around 1.2 klm/litre according to the gauges. Not too bad for a new motor. I would expect it to improve as it loosens up. Mark sure has it set up nicely.

That is 27 knots @ 4,200rpm for 0.65 NM/L

On my 702L with a Suzuki DF250 I get almost the same performance, although about a knot slower at 26knots, but the revs and fuel usage is spot on. My boat is probably heavier thus the loss of the knot of speed, but the engine is also nicely run-in, so the fuel consumption is on a par.

Beautiful engine these babies!

[Far side]

Thanks for coming out Rhys and sharing my new acquisition. It was a challenging fishing day and we did all of the right things for little return but still rewarding.
I am totally impressed with the Garmin sounder and with the exception of bottom discrimination I would hate to admit that it is a better unit than the Koden we had the power pretty low for high definition and it will be interesting to see how it performs in much deeper water.
Swano was good value and an excellent deckie good company and is welcome on my boat any time thanks for the cleanup guys.

Interesting to see that animal with 2 by 250 on the back that would really get up and motor. Not sure if I would like the fuel bill though but a really nice boat

[Outsider1]

For info, a friend has a Nooscat 3000 powered by 2 by 250DFs. Last time we were out it was cruising at 27knots @ 4,000 revs and sucking 65/67 litres/hour combined. We used about 170 litres for a day out on the 29s and 35s.

Cheers

Dave

[wags on the water]

Rhys,

We first went to the bait grounds but failed to boat any, so off to the 29's, 35's then to the 42's.

Cheers,
Wags