2 trips = best 4 day break ever

[Scalem]

I said my goal was to have the new Yalta ready for Easter so my family and I could have a fun filled 4 days getting aquainted with our new baby.




Trip one was an overnighter in Tiger Mullet channel in the Pin.

We found our own little parking lot, and even though there were hundreds of other boats dotting the night horizon with anchor lights, we found our own slice of heaven.


There was an occasional mosquito, both the winged variety and the jetskis zooming past, but they were considerate enough to stay well clear of the moored boats.




By midday the next day, i suggested it was time to go home - the complaints from th girls at the suggestion clearly showed how successful our overnighter was.

Today, Brad ( for Steve) and I tried to catch a feed for the dinner plate. The rain stayed away, the boat ate up the sloppy conditions at Mud, and the fish we took home were a 40cm snap and flounder to me, a 38cm snap and a nice 35cm grassie for Brad.



Mate, you can drive the boat any time, the icing on the cake was to have a deckie who knows how to jump in behind the wheel and give captain Scalem a break from skipper duties.

Looks like my fish cheated someone out of a feed recently, the hook is still lodged in the mouth.



Scalem

[whatscracken]

The new boat looks a treat mate.

[stessco]

very nice rig! and some snaps. thats gold

[Benno1]

great looking boat Scalem...did you use much fuel???...how is she for economy???...was everyone comfy on your overnighter???...good catch...great boat...nice one
cheers for the piccies and report...i really like the third and fourth piccie by the way...looks the business...

Mrs Benno1
Sunny

[jtpython]

Nice boat... always great to get family out
My wife gets seasick so won't do an overnighter
Good holiday
JT

[Scalem]

great looking boat Scalem...did you use much fuel???...how is she for economy???...was everyone comfy on your overnighter???...good catch...great boat...nice one
cheers for the piccies and report...i really like the third and fourth piccie by the way...looks the business...

Mrs Benno1
Sunny

Fuel? I filled her to the max... actually over filled, I should have slowed down at 100 ltrs thinking the trigger would cut off automatically, but it didn't. I had fuel sqiirting out the two breathers thats how full. Now, after running around the pin, then from Manly to Mud and back, the Yammy guage still reads full. I am going to have to use her over the next few weeks just to make sure the fuel doesn't go stale I even took out the inspection port on the floor to look at the fuel bladder to make sure the guage on the dash wasn't lying. Fuel was still full to the top..Very impressive economy.

We were all comfy except for the Mosquitos buzzing around our ears. 2 kids in the cabin, wife on the two cushioned seats positioned end on end, and I was on the floor on a fold out camp mattress. Little shuffling around, but worked out just fine.

Scalem

[mad matt]

nice rig mate good to take the kids out well done

[Chris Ryan]

Top stuff mate. Fish in the boat too!

[Lucky_Phill]

Nice work Brian.

Now you need to get the Yalta offshore into serious Snaps.....


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[whynott]

Brian,
The boat looks great and sounds that you are very happy with it.
Worth the wait.
Graham.

[ronnien]

very nice rig!
yous had a better easter than we did, we got flooded out.

ron.

[Silent]

Nice family boat!!!
I'm with phill you will need some serious offshore fishing and forget about mud

[Scalem]

Chris

Would you beleive that the 1st fish to come on board was a snapper, and boated by the wife? The fish was all of around 5cm, but still, it was a snapper, and it will never be forgotten. She won't let me!!

Phil, I am gearing up for the 1st offshore trip, grabbing mac baits when they are on special, larger jig heads etc. The smelly stuff has already created a heap of extra work for me when the yabby juice/ water bucket spilled on the carpet and I had to wet vax it clean. Only 24 hours and the new boat smelled like a industrial bin outside a seafood shop. So offshore work the bait will be BANNED from use in this rig.

Graham

Really happy with it mate, how is your new baby treating you?

Ron

Yesterday we could see a heap of dark cloud north of Brisbane, but we hardly got a drop while we fished. Sorry to hear you were flooded.

Silent

I had to keep eating my sanwiches and drinking a fair bit in up to 2 mtrs ( mostly around 1.5 or so) of slop around Mud yeaterday. I still have to watch seasickness and will only venture offshore in good conditions. I have now joined the ranks of the very frustrated offshore clan who can't get a decent crack at the bigger fish because of the weather pattern. Same happening again this weekend coming, according to seabreeze. Winds and swell are on the increase again. Mud is still a lot of fun on light gear. . Bring on the winter westerlies!


Scalem

[T1]

Now that sounds like a top weekend!!!

Congrats on the new boat mate and look forward to the offshore trips and reports!!

Take Care T

[Scalem]

Now that sounds like a top weekend!!!

Congrats on the new boat mate and look forward to the offshore trips and reports!!

Take Care T

Thanks T

BTW one of your Pin tings decided to pay me a visit - didnt measure or weigh it, but nearly have been an inch thick around the gills. Woke me up with the drag going zzzzZZZ. You will have to show me where your spot x is

scalem