Great day on the Bay 13th

[Fisher4life]

With the weather as good as it was, couldn't resist the temptation of taking the mrs out for a day on the bay. This was going to be her first day out on moreton bay (as she gets sea sick very easily) so the plan was to head out from wynnum, up along the inside of the islands to Mud, adding the trip to the GPS for future night trips, have a shot for some snapper with plastics over the lunch time change of tide, then head back to get some whiting.

Arrived at the boat ramp at around 11ish, to be welcomed by TGO conditions, set out for mud island, with the plan to give scalems secret car park a shot for some squire with plastics and bait. Stayed for 2hrs over the change of tide bouncing placcies, and drifting some fresh baits (without a single showing on the sounder). The baits didn't get touched, and we continued to get the placcies chewed by small stuff, which we later found out to be rainbow runners, as the better half pulled in her first ever fish on SP. Looking around the car park, i noticed that there was very little at all being caught other then bits of coral and wire weed , so we headed back into to our whiting spot.

Fished for whiting and decided to pull the pin at 3 with a good feed.

Arrived back at the boat ramp and gave the trailer a quick maintenace check (it's easier to see rusted brakets and axels etc when the boat is off), noticed that the passenger side wheel bearings had colapsed... . proceeded to take the boat out, (manouvering the trailer around the drop kicks who park the boat and trailer in the middle of the ramp while they tie the boat on >) then found a car park with level ground in order to repair the wheel. By 4pm the new wheel bearings were installed, filled with new marine grease complete with new buddy bearings. Home by 5, boat and fish cleaned by 6. Eating fresh Whiting for tea at 6.30!!

Faith's first SP fish

[Fisher4life]

The feed

[Fisher4life]

The car park at Mud, notice the dodgy weather

[Fisher4life]

The boss hard at it

[seafarer3]

Good on ya ,

nice catch of whiting....
We went out Saturday..same conditions..
from the pin up the Canipa Passage into the bay..
Flat as far as the eye could see..magic conditions...

Cheers
Scott

[richos]

Nice feed of whitings there
Great looking conditions also!
cheers

[Poodroo]

You did well on those whiting. Well done considering those shocking conditions. I usually fish with scalem when he can fit me in however I am thinking because I don't own a boat as yet I could have been creative and floated out to Mud in a broccoli box alongside you.

Poodroo

[BrandonH]

Nice work Fish4life!! I don't know about your little rainbow runners though the fish your "boss" is holding looks very much like a whip tail. I was out at mud 2 weeks ago and got a couple of them on plastics and nothing else did that fish have an extended section on the top of its tail??
Bad luck with the squire, I haven't been able to get a legal one this seasion yet myself > i will keep trying though, they tast sooo much better than Bream


Tight lines
Brandon...

[Murks]

NOW THATS A DAY OUT
Nice work mate and congarts to the boss, and ur right, the conditions looked terrible [smiley=tekst-toppie.gif]

[Fisher4life]

yeah did, i'v heard them called a whip tail before, however when fishing up at hervey bay for mackeral the lacals reffered to them as 'rainbow runners', and they are deadly makeral bait up there... it's only the second time i'v ever caught them down here, and unfortunately don't seem to have the same bait quality as they do up there.

Sorry BranondH, will remember the name for future posts..

[BrandonH]

No dramas mate!! We all have different names to similar fish but the only reasion i said something is I didn't want yourself and other people thinking that these are actually little rainbow runners, or thinking rainbow runners were comming into the bay lol.

A real rainbow runner looks more like a yellowtail king x a wahoo sorta below is a pic i found on the web of one the colouring is very similar but still different...



Its a totally different fish to a whiptail, notice that neither one of the tail fins is longer than the other? where a whiptail has the top fin way way longer than the bottom. hope the pic helps. i tried finding a whiptail on the web also to post (with tail in pic) but couldn't find any except one on a dead link at sunfish I have heard them being good baits in the bay at times but never used one myself in the bay. did have one taken by a train out from Mbar one night but never came close to seeing what took it..

cheers
Brandon...

[favourite_whiting]

Hello,
Very well working of catching those whitings.....
Where's our dinner?????
We went on fishing trip with our club for the day on 12/08/06 at Cruose Island area on boat/stand but no lucks of whitings there as mostly are breams there
Happy life of fishing,
Hobbywhitings