Agnes / 1770 M & G 2009. Dates are up.

[Apollo]

98 sleeps (well 97 now). It is certainly racing up on us. We better pull our finger out as Mark's boat is still in many pieces and I am certainly not wanting to take mine up. Starting to get a bit toey for this trip - bring on flats seas, warm days, lots of laughs, hungry fish and cold beer.

Need to start thinking a bit more about tackle and rigs, now where is the bank card?

Steve
Team Legless

[murf]

hahahaha

this is all part of fishing/angling as per Lucky_Phill's post else where

bring it on

the antisipation

the rekindled mateship

the new mates (male or female )

the getting everything ready

have we remembered everything and thought of all outcomes from the week

life's good, lets do it instead of talking about it

cheers Murf

PS one bottle of moonshine rum say's I catch the biggest red

[trymyluck]

Hi All
Well boat is painted bar a couple of bits of rework I'll do later, (one day)

"PS one bottle of moonshine rum say's I catch the biggest red"

Let me see, if someone catches a bigger red they get a bottle of "Quality Rum"

It won't do you any good offering us bribes to let you win,


Mark..........Team Legless

[murf]

Hi All
Well boat is painted bar a couple of bits of rework I'll do later, (one day)

"PS one bottle of moonshine rum say's I catch the biggest red"

Let me see, if someone catches a bigger red they get a bottle of "Quality Rum"

It won't do you any good offering us bribes to let you win,


Mark..........Team Legless

hahaha

bring it on

cheers Murf

[Apollo]

......

It won't do you any good offering us bribes to let you win,


Mark..........Team Legless

Mark

Hang on just a sec, don't be hasty. If Murf want to offer a bribe, the least we can do is listen to the man!

Please Murf, continue.


Steve
Team Legless

[Black_Rat]

Damo,
you back yet from up north?

mike

Na, back end of June still yet to catch a Barra in the wild so the jobs taking a little longer to finish

[Apollo]

A plea for some help - don't laugh.

Mark & I were having a chat today and amoungst many other problems, we see that fish identification is our biggest problem when fishing offshore up here. Yep, being both from NSW originally, there are plenty of fish to be caught off 1770, that we won't have a clue on. This causes us obvious issues in that if we can't work out what it is, then it makes the whole what to keep to eat, what is not so good, what can make our wives widows, what should be given to the mother in law, what is the size limit, bag limit, etc thing become difficult.

We have caught a few since being up here, so we should be right with identifying
Coral Trout
Coronation Trout
Hussar
Red Emperor
Spanish Mac
Mac Tuna
Spangle Emperor
Maori Cod
Tomato Cod
Golden Spot Cod
Trevs - GT, Golden, Silver
Parrot fish
Grassy Sweetlips
Tuskies
Snapper
Pearlies
Iodine Bream
Slatey Bream
Sharks - whaler, reef, etc
Turtles - don't ask

Think that is about it.

My request is - what else can we expect to catch up there (good, bad & dangerous) that we need to do some research on before we head up to save us some potential grief (health, $ fine or otherwise)? Sure we will be taking up a guidebook, but a little homework by us on what is likely to be caught will hopefully save us some time.

Thanks
Steve

[Tangles]

Na, back end of June still yet to catch a Barra in the wild so the jobs taking a little longer to finish

try trolling with beers, they might jump in??

[Tangles]

A plea for some help - don't laugh.


My request is - whatelse can we expect to catch up there (good, bad & dangerous) that we need to do some research on before we head up to save us some potential grief (health, fine or otherwise)?

Thanks
Steve

The S@#ts from the cook off?

[murf]

Hey Steve

I hope you have a few university degree's under your belt and are a barrister because finding and learning all the rules in diff parts of QLD is a challenge at the very least and finding a way to identify a fish with good colour pics is another challenge.

good local knowledge is the best I have thrown heaps of great fish back over the side because I couldn't quickly ID them. Then back at the ramp you see someone cleaning some smaller versions of what you have been throwing back all day haha

the amount of people that have bought back a feed of leather jackets only to be told they are trigger fish and laughing with them as they try to cut them up

now is the gold spot cod diff to the gold spot wrasse?

red ears

yellow tails (not the bait type)

cods of all sorts that can only be positively identified by gill raker counts and spine counts

my advise is make sure you know what your not allowed to keep or eat

have fun

cheers Murf

[trymyluck]

Hey Steve

I hope you have a few university degree's under your belt and are a barrister because finding and learning all the rules in diff parts of QLD is a challenge at the very least and finding a way to identify a fish with good colour pics is another challenge.

good local knowledge is the best I have thrown heaps of great fish back over the side because I couldn't quickly ID them. Then back at the ramp you see someone cleaning some smaller versions of what you have been throwing back all day haha

the amount of people that have bought back a feed of leather jackets only to be told they are trigger fish and laughing with them as they try to cut them up

now is the gold spot cod diff to the gold spot wrasse?

red ears

yellow tails (not the bait type)

cods of all sorts that can only be positively identified by gill raker counts and spine counts

my advise is make sure you know what your not allowed to keep or eat

have fun

cheers Murf

Steve I hereby appoint you as the official "Team Legless Fish Identifier"
Mark

P.S. Been told she's not happy that we could be going 20 mile offshore, That i need a bigger boat to go that far offshore Yes dear.

[Lucky_Phill]

A plea for some help - don't laugh.

Footballer trout
Islander Trout
Coral Cod
Coral Trout
Rosey Jobfish
Coronation Trout
Hussar ( pink )
Hussar ( Yellow )
Red Emperor
Nannygai ( Small & Large mouth )
Spanish Mac
Spottie Mackerel
Mac tuna
Spangle Emperor
Red Throat Emporer
Maori Cod
Purple / Blue Cod
Estuary Cod ( gold spot / greasey )
Tomato Cod
Unstoppables..........................
Golden Spot Cod
Spanish Flag ( stripies )
Trevs - GT, Golden, Silver
Mangrove Jack
Parrot fish
Grinner
Grassy Sweetlips
Grunter ( spotted )
Leather jacket ( very large )
Tuskies
Snapper
Pearlies
Yellow tail kingies
Amberjack
Cobia ( Black King )
Iodine Bream
Slatey Bream
Whiptail
Sharks - whaler, reef, etc
Turtles - don't ask

Sure we will be taking up a guidebook, but a little homework by us on what is likely to be caught will hopefully save us some time.

Thanks

Steve

Extra species you may encounter are in red......


Cheers Phill
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[Lucky_Phill]

So, ya better not tell her that we actually go 40 mile offshore... !!!!





phill

[trymyluck]

So, ya better not tell her that we actually go 40 mile offshore... !!!!





phill

For crying out loud you had to say it didn't you, now i'll be grounded for sure What she dosn't know won't hurt her( or us I hope)


Mark

[Mr__Bean]

Keep in mind that we head out to an island (Lady Musgrave Island), so once you get half way out there you are the furthest you will be from shore.



- Darren