Forecast for Moreton Bay was spot on...I had a grand day!
Forecast for Moreton Bay was spot on...I had a grand day!
I fished yesterday and got surprised by the wind that picked up (surprised and quite uncomfortable, not caught out)
Today, I was surprised the opposite way, with an expectation that it would blow up like it did yesterday but then it didn't - so we stayed in the bay when we could have gone wide
but thems the brakes...
we had a great day, and we caught fish - all happy
was out at square patch yesterday winds 25knts plus made for a very crappy day, only managed to boat one snappa and one kingy the sharks managed to clean us up on fish and jigs
Cheers MM
i fished mud blew 10 kn dropped to about 8 kn thought i would head back to woodypoint and gather bait got to the shipping channel and decided to go home instead glad i did got home and seabreeze had gusts up to 25 kn at the inner beacon just after lunch
shane
Fished Pearl bay 50nm north of Yeppoon sat/sun.
Forecast was 10-15 sat and 5-10sunday going by buoyweather and seabreeze.
Sat was 10-15early then 20knots later. Had 25knot winds sat night and at good 20knots all day sunday.
4 hour trip home in a direct southerly was awful, forecast was almost complete opposite than what was expected...
It was certainly rough, and unfishable using soft plastics. I couldnt even get 4oz jigheads down in 60 metres of water.
Bring on some good weather, we have jighead testing to do
cheers tim
I wasn't too far from you then mate.It wasn't exactly the 9 knots they predicted....even with the 40% stronger disclaimer they write certainly didn't cover the 25 knots it was blowingOriginally Posted by madmackrel
was out at square patch yesterday winds 25knts plus made for a very crappy day, only managed to boat one snappa and one kingy the sharks managed to clean us up on fish and jigs
Cheers MM.7 snapper and a pearlie for the effort though but it was bloody hard fishing pulling a 3 knot drift with the para anchor out.
That's been my whole May. Not so much the strong winds, you can live with them if you know that is what you get but when the forecasting is so off, cancelling some days when it turns out good and going days when you shouldn't.
After my brother and I had the misfortune of having to salvage his smashed up half cabin boat on the calm side of Moreton Island years ago when the forecast said 1- 15 knot SE and 30 knot W winds blew up and swamped the boat I will never really be surprised by the forecast... Back then it was Ken Brown on the news saying how it was going to be the next day not a website that is regularly updated.. either way the boat got smashed and I lost all my fishing gear because they got the forecast 100% wrong big time
About 5 years ago Chong and I were fishing calm side morton with that same forecast and that same change. We pulled the pin early as we could tell it was not going to be good. Then took an hour and a half in the dark just to get to the back of Mud Island.After my brother and I had the misfortune of having to salvage his smashed up half cabin boat on the calm side of Moreton Island years ago when the forecast said 1- 15 knot SE and 30 knot W winds blew up and swamped the boat I will never really be surprised by the forecast... Back then it was Ken Brown on the news saying how it was going to be the next day not a website that is regularly updated.. either way the boat got smashed and I lost all my fishing gear because they got the forecast 100% wrong big time
40% increase over forecast is ok. Complete opposite is another story, and can get dangerous.
unfortunately, i guess we still have to understand that even in this modern age with all the instruments and satellites, mother nature nature still reigns supreme and weather prediction is still an art and not necessarilly a science.
i have a bit of a rule of thumb for the northern bay, even if it's beautiful at home (i'm lucky enough to live close to the water), i look at sea breeze first thing in the morning and if the wind speed indicators at the spitfire channel and the cape haven't shown the wind to have dropped out during the night then i know it'll be pretty rough once i get out into the bay proper. my method does fall in a heap though on those days when it drops right out mid morning and i sit at home sulking cos i got it so wrong and everyone else is out having a good time. for friday and saturday nights the wind just didn't seem to drop out in the bay at all.
Yes it was not as nice as to be expected yesterday, just enough wind to be annoying and shake the beers up a bit.
Fished Wide Cal in a 9m Kevlacat for a feed and good times with mates, it was good to give the light gear a run and eat some fresh fish for dinner
Obviously too rough as I spilt one beer & another got broken!
Tony
My motto... better to find it rougher than expected and turn for home than to sit at home sulking when it turns out to be flat!
totally agree, 0nly managed 3-4 hours of fish'n before head'n in, but still beats sit'n at home watch'n the grass grow under the boat.
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