Mooloolaba - Day Off Work

[woodwiz]

It was good to finally get offshore again after the poor weather. Fished early between the blinker and murphy's on Wednesday. First time out for my mate and good to see fish were on the bite. Was pulled over by DPI on the way in. They checked everywhere - live bait tank, kill tank, esky, they even measured the frames in the crab pots. Had all fins removed except 2 tiny hussers which they pulled me up on. I cut them on the spot and all was good. Checked flares and epirb which I thought was not their authority. Caught a toad fish with a stainless steel trace coming out of its rear end - never seen anything like it. Gave it a gentle pull and hook and all was removed.
Great morning off work!

[uglyfish]

Sounds like a good day mate, yeah they have the powers to check epirbs and flares.
Hense the name Queensland boating and fishing patrol..

[Ratman]

Thats a good catch mate.

Did they board your boat??

Mick

[woodwiz]

Yes. 3 officers, 1 boarded, he got drenched looking in the kill tank as was full of water - lucky no crabs to bite his fingers off!

[hallcomp01]

I got the DPI run over the day before.. Seems they like to out in the better weather..
Nice guys but they seem pretty keen to check fins..

They also checked my EPIRB and Flares including EPIRB sticker expirey..

Good catch mate...

[-spiro-]

mate thats a good feed for that area. well done

[jason p]

nice feed there mate and a good lookin trout, im yet to land 1 of those. i had the fisheries boarding me when i was still out at murphies, hadnt finned any of the 19 fish on board as i thought ionly had to defin before going back in to shore,mybad, cut there and then, could have been a $1200 episode, $400 pp. let me off with a warning. thank god for that.
thanks for the report

jp

[jarhead]

Nice mixed feed there.

Wal

[mangrove rat]

nice fish there mate, seems 90% of the time your off mooloolaba fisheries and police are around, last time i was checked by fisheries once, police in a big cat once and police in a little tinny once, all before 9am! good i guess i never have anything to hide!
is there many schools of tuna off mooloolaba at the moment?

[Liberty]

Jees, I'm going to have to be more careful on fins. Thanks for the update!

[1lastcast]

Nice catch there mate thanks for the heads up on the finning i will cut them of from now on as i have not been doing it , i guess i have been lucky not to have been checked yet so i will from now on thanks for the report.

[lido76]

Nice feed there Woodwiz. Still trying for my first Trout hopefully I'll nail one soon. Cheers Brendan.........

[woodwiz]

Thanks guys for your comments and feedback. Was my first coral trout as they don't normally come down this south. Was caught on a PE Tackle Fly and was my first time using their tackle.

[-spiro-]

nice feed there mate and a good lookin trout, im yet to land 1 of those. i had the fisheries boarding me when i was still out at murphies, hadnt finned any of the 19 fish on board as i thought ionly had to defin before going back in to shore,mybad, cut there and then, could have been a $1200 episode, $400 pp. let me off with a warning. thank god for that.
thanks for the report

jp

Man you were lucky i have heard there fineing fishós at the sunny coast pretty hard.

Here's a tip "FIN ALL YOUR KEEPERS" we do then theres no problem of watching deckies putting fish in the esky wondering if there finned or not.