new boats first run,

[brenno360]

hey everyone

took my new 6m quinny out today, conditions were awesome, had a few troubles at the ramp first thing this morning, mainly a flat battery stopping us from starting the out board, (stupid me forgot to put it on charge last night) lucky the cruiser has 2 in it, banged one of them out and away we went, now driving it back on the trailer when we got back well its goin to take me a while before i can do that right,

headed out of caloundra and was heading to the 5mile, but got out to the fiar way beacon, that had heaps of boats around, but there was so much chopp for tuna i think, couldn't actually catch any??? we were dead set not even 10m from theme at times n couldn't get them to take any of the slugs or lures we thought, can anyone tell me Wat works i have never caught them before....

anyways drifted around there for a few hours bottom bashing and came up wit 1 really good grassy, and one that only about 40cm but still good, also got a decent maori cod, and a few hussar, all in all boat handled great im very happy with it, and it turned out to be a pretty good day, cant wait for the next trip,

cheers brenno

[WalFish]

Conrats on the new boat. Plenty of Quinnie knockers around here but my old FreedomSport 480 did everything I ever asked of it - never faltered.

[nigelr]

Good on you brenno, always takes a few trips to get things sorted.......glad you had a ball mate.

[rosco1974]

well done mate and congrats on the new boat
cheers rosco

[Lachie1]

Good to hear you're enjoying the new boat mate - there will always be a few little tricks to work out but lol. Any grassie over 40cm is pretty good in my books mate and top eating. Not sure if quintrex trailers are really designed as drive on though, unless you have aditional rollers to guide it and the way they are set up with skids instead of a full roller setup. Not saying it can't be done though, plenty of people do it.

Cheers for the report, can't wait to get out there again myself

P.S As for the tuna, sometimes they wont play the game but usually they are easy as to catch throwing slugs, esp if they're mac tuna, try a heap of different size slugs, usually around the 30 - 40g in the deep blue works for me or half a floating pilly

[Mark-P]

Yeh, its takes some practice. After a while you wont ever wet your feet again !

Mark

PS.. Try using a 10 or 15g slug .

[brenno360]

thanks everyone, yer as for the driving on the trailer well thats wart the guy always did but im not sure i guess ill have a few goes at it if not ill just winch it on...

thanks for the advice on the tuna, is there any particular sort of slug i should use? e.g plain or coloured, compact and heavy/light or larger and longer ones around the suggested weight range? (if you know Wat i mean??) any particular brand ether?

the other thing is how should i work it? fast retrieve or?

thanks again for the advice i really appreciate it,

cheers brenden

[Mark-P]

thanks everyone, yer as for the driving on the trailer well thats wart the guy always did but im not sure i guess ill have a few goes at it if not ill just winch it on...

thanks for the advice on the tuna, is there any particular sort of slug i should use? e.g plain or coloured, compact and heavy/light or larger and longer ones around the suggested weight range? (if you know Wat i mean??) any particular brand ether?

the other thing is how should i work it? fast retrieve or?

thanks again for the advice i really appreciate it,

cheers brenden

Try these out, ive had a bit of success with them in 15g.


Mark

[backlash08]

fast retrieve

[brenno360]

thanks mark ill give them ago next time im out,

hey backlash would that be as fast as possible or just fairly quick???

thanks brenden