Moreton Wide Easter Saturday

[TREVELLY]

Went wide got a few pearlies (plenty of throw backs for 3 keepers) then visited Ronnie and got a 23kg barcod - Ella is happy the freezer is full again. I even boiled up the frame for stock - tasty!

Between spots stopped for half hour on a show and had about 50 friendly dolphins right up at the boat - a couple were even backing up to the bow and hinting that I should get going so they could play - they were really very interested and doing their best to have a good look and even tell me what to do.

It was a good day on the water.

Trip was solo and about 200km all up.

Water temp at the shelf was just over 29deg and current was stronger than I wanted with drift speed 4-5kph

[Almako]

Nice catch mate. Sure hope that current slows. I was near tempest and it was about 3km/h, went back to 29's area and it dropped back to 1km/h. Perfect...

[Back In Black]

Trev, you are getting this deep dropping down to an art mate.

Great report,

Tony

[marto78]

Good stuff Trev.

[lethal098]

Well Done Trev,
Ronnies Spot is certainly holding some good fish for you.

[Goodoo haven]

Sorry Trev. I meant to press the like icon. Sausage fingers. Anyway well done mate

[TREVELLY]

OOOOPS! ^^^^^^^^

No worries Doug - all good

It was a good day out - I was planning an overnighter for swordfish but catching the cod and having the wind pick up to 15 knots on dusk on top of a 2m swell made going home and easy choice. I am hopeful for an overnighter once the currents drops a bit and the sea is below 1m and the wind below 10knots - one day not too far away I hope.

I also had a bit of trouble on the trip with one battery melt-down and a button issue on the sounder. I had 5 spare batteries so I was well catered for. The dash volt gauge identified the dodgy battery so i just disconnected it and I have a remote plug in for deep cycle battery using anderson plug so all was safe enough.

I wish I did have these deep-sea critters wired but I reckon you just have to look about a lot and drop a lot and sooner or later a dividend pays off. I seem to have them always shut down too as soon as one is caught. I have tried a few tricks to change that but nothing seems to work.

Hope to get back out deep drop in a month but before then supposed to take some guys from work out and will target pearlies as there are plenty of smaller ones to keep them busy and a few keepers for the lucky ones.

These are the one's I kept - nothing amazing but still a nice feed and a good size