shy guys,humdinger and trevally offshore 26th and 27th may

[netmaker]

not only welcome mate, but a pleasure

[Smithy]

Nope wasn't me Trev. It was Roger B and TCSuncoast on Blu Reela a Black Watch 280 possibly. They did it tough I think. I was surprised they were out there. I stuck in close Sunday getting out of the wind. I ended up near the blinker and had Offshore Fishing Mooloolaba and Oddysey Charters come back past me from a direction that was out at the banks.

[TREVELLY]

Saturday went out from Scarby - water temp in bay 19 deg then once at Moreton and beyond 24 deg. Bait taken was squid, mullet and pillies.

Went to Hutchies for zip then out wide to 85m for a number of small pearlies all thrown back.

Then went to Deep Tempest about mid-morning.

Wind was a reasonable 15knots SW.

We caught small stuff to start with hussars, snapper and pearlies.

Jon did his plastics fisho impersonation catching this one and holding right up to the camera so you think it is a monster :-



Funny thing was when it came to the surface it was spinning away and below it was a 4 foot long cobia wondering what the flop it was. I threw out some pillies and squid and then a livebait hussar - but no joy - oh well.

With the wind although it was a steady SW our drift was heading into the wind and East hmmmm - we soon found out why when we caught a few respectable fish we anchored hoping to get a burley trail happening. But as soon as the pilly hit the water it was 20m away in a nano-second. Current from the North was awesome - no chance of even getting a bait to the bottom anchored - so we resumed drifting.

I caught this one:-



We each caught a few of these, but here is Jon with his:-



With each respectable fish we have several of these to throw back:-



Jon did bring up to the side of the boat a very nice size tuskfish (about 4kg) just lip hooked and then ignoring the landing net alongside he lifted if halfway into the boat then splash - what I said to him - think I handled it pretty well

Towards the end of the day we went in closer to Shallow Tempest to anchor up and get a burley trail going and fish into dark - was a great plan but resulted in absolutely zip - so after hours of throwing pilchard pieces over the side every 6 seconds and floating pillies down this till we gave up and left at 7.30pm.

It was a bumpy ride across the bay and no fun going across the the shallows at the NW corner of Moreton with wind and swell making for some steep waves and it was real dark too .

Sunday the seabreeze was showing 10-15knots first up dropping to 10knots mid-day and 10-15knots end of day so off we went to The Banks

Yep 10-15knots to start with so we got the the Southern end and only found aquarium fish then went to the deeper 120m line and got a dozen undersized pearlies and one keeper.

The wind did not decrease to 10knots infact it increased to 15-20knots The plan was if we caught fish at the Banks great we would stay there and with the wind decreasing we could keep heading north if the fish didn't play. But with the wind now at 20knots we went no further north than midway up The Banks and the fish weren't playing either .

We stuck it out at the 85m line for a keeper pearlie and more than a dozen just undersize pearlies all thrown back.

Last effort was a couple of marks on The Banks so the wind then went 20-25knots:-



When it reached a solid constant 25knots and real angry mid-arvo we went home:-



Got home about 7pm and missus said was thinking of you out there today as the weather here was so calm and hot - you must have had a wonderful time No current at The Banks - just a cyclone

Anyway we all had a few and enjoyed barbecued pearlies and snapper so what the heck it was still a great weekend with mates trying

[shy guys]

When we were out at tempest sat mid morning found it hard to stay on the bottom but did get the 2 perlies we were using 16 ounce lead

[Humdinger]

good 1 trev
i feel the same way . even with all the drama's was still a good trip away with a few good mates

no nagging from the missus to clean my shit up .
my drama's worked in my favor when i got home she even helped me clean the boat out with no

[TREVELLY]

When we were out at tempest sat mid morning found it hard to stay on the bottom but did get the 2 perlies we were using 16 ounce lead

Yeah it wan't easy out there drifting but when anchored it was just plain impossible

At Tempest we went to about 10 different marks till we caught some keepers so a lot of prospecting.

Trying to drift over a wreck was very difficult and very fast

My downer was cleaning the boat today - 4 more cracks - 3 new ones, so it is out till strengthened

[2IC]

My downer was cleaning the boat today - 4 more cracks - 3 new ones, so it is out till strengthened
More info pls
Cheers Bill

[TREVELLY]

My downer was cleaning the boat today - 4 more cracks - 3 new ones, so it is out till strengthened
More info pls
Cheers Bill

The boat was welded up and they have held but the transom is cracking in new places as it flexes differently but obviously with insufficient strength not to tear apart.

I would say it is fatigued from previously breaking and wobbling and tearing and needs to be fully strengthened to work safely again. Will put pics on the other boating thread - nothing huge but will be if left as is.

http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/sho...68#post1387468

[TimD]

Trev sounds like you need a POLYCRAFT



cheers tim

[TREVELLY]

Trev sounds like you need a POLYCRAFT
cheers tim

Leave plastic to the devoted plastic fisho

[Humdinger]

thanks to cormorant . i should be going again by the weekend . might have to do a test run out to netmakers spot

[shy guys]

Ill come along Bret seeing I got no work on