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Went out today as well. After so many bad days, could not ignore the forecast.
Headed out at 5.00am with Adrian (snapperone) and over to the 4 beacons. Good trip out. But nothing happening for anyone. After a few hours we had enough tried a few spots for bottom fish. A few that came close,, but no cigar. Then back to the beacons. Caught up with DC and JB (and Cameron) and said hello, then we all continued to sit there and have bugger all results.
Adrian and I tried another beacon, tried a long drift, and then spent the next hour chasing a school. They would boil and then disappear to come up a km away. By the time we got close, they were gone and then found another km away. Very frustrating. We came across one school that we had a good 6 - 10 hits at, but no connections.
Had enough, so a stop off for a few undersize and vermon at Mud, then back to the ramp.
Good to see Craigie still there and helped us at then ramp when we motored in (high tide equals no sand). Thanks for that.
Was a great day to be on the bay. Would have been better if we had dinner, but you get that. Lots of fish (just the wrong size or type), plus good company, equals a good day on the water.
Back luck on the fishing front Craig, but it was a great day to be out. I managed to get out for a run in the bay this afternoon also, but only managed one Mackerel. I'll put up a more detailed report shortly. AT least the weather played teh game today
Yes it was a great day to be out there.
Thanks for the run Craig, had a wonderful time and It doesnt matter that we didnt get any keepers,
Plenty of fish where caught and that shark was a good size and made for some excitment.
Good to meet up with some of the boys from ausfish and good company also.
Thanks again Craig enjoyed being your deckie.
Heres a pic of what the water was like at about 8am
sorry no fish wanted their pic taken lol
We had a run over to Moreton yesterday as well. I looked out for you, but we didn't get there until about midday, so you were probably already on your way back at that time.
The trip over from Scarborough was dead flat without any wind at all, but picked up a little with the N/NE later that afternoon. Great day though.
I was at the 4 beacons yesterday as well. Gave a wave to DC, JB and crew as they went passed and said hello. great set up there Dane
Cheech- Were you on the the beacon DC/JB stopped and fished on?.I think you were north of me.
Very quite only managed 3 doggies for the esky, dropped 2. treid 3 beacons north for nothing. Stopped at the Nelson couple of small squire. Crew went swimming with dolphins.I have never seen so many dolphins as yesterday. Evertime we stop a pod would suround boat no chance of gettin a fish!!
Did hook onto a good cobia at the honey pot, but broke off after 10 minutes
Hi Micheal
Yes we where at the same beacon as Dane but that depends on how many beacons he stopped at lol
Middle on of the three beacons is where we met up with Dane
Great day too but couldnt get a keeper. Thats fishing
Cheech it was great to meet you out there mate , always good to see a fellow ausfisher (and most importantly find out where the fish are ). We had one of the most dissapointing days on the bay ever yesterday when it comes to chasing spotties. We headed out from manly in danes quintrex and made our way up past the m1, without seeing one school of spotties or even mac tuna! We did find some playful schools of longtails up around the m2 but they were near impossible to get a hookup on. I noticed throughout the bay yesterday the bait was very small , tiny infact.
Anyways a very dissapointing day pelagics wise. Heres a pic of something small that decided to take my slug while jiggin the beacons, i have no idea wat it is , hoping someone can identify it.
Conditions made it easy for us to scoot around, thus we covered a big area lookin for spots. It was one hell of a frustrating sight though watching a 10kg bluefin in cyrstal clear water ignoring your whitebait impression.. ???
Cheech, Adrian, Michael, good to put faces to names. As JB said, we left from Manly and kept working north until we decided to turn around about 2 k's NE of Comby pt We covered a hell of a lot of water and jigged a whole lotta beacons for no takers. Tried everything, pillies, livies, floaters, weighted, trolling, jigging, spinning. I think the SE'er blew the buggers back up north ???
Micheal at least you guys got some action, with not a run all day, we're pretty disheartened. Never seen the bay so quiet, not even mac tuna schools to fall back on
Brad, we left the comby area just as it began to puff from the NE. We made it to mud before we had to succumb to the chop and back off the throttle... whats a bay trip without a good arse pounding anyway?
Kinda glad no-one else found the spots, I'd be spewn!
Think we saw Fishinmission out there too? Was it you we saw chasing the very flighty longtails up near comby pt mate?
Cheers,
Dane
Was a pearler of a day out . Mackeral schools seemed to not be in the bay or just hard to find yesterday . Caught up with the Wezza and when on the hunt [smiley=rifle.gif]. Only surface activity spotted from Redcliffe to the Cape was some schools of mac tuna working near combie point. Wez had a nice hookup. Bill (father in law) jigged one schoolie off a beacon with two bite offs on weighted livies and Wade thought a trolled lure snagged some weed until pulling the blue pillie up and seeing a grinner smaller than the lure hooker on the back [smiley=freak.gif]. Before heading back I spotted something Big clear the water and land with a huge splash [smiley=speechless.gif]. Upon exploring I noticed a huge school of tightly packed small bonito swirling the surface. Trolled through and just caught a bonito. Dropped a livey (yellowtail) and caught another bonito [smiley=evil2.gif]. Needing to try to get to whatever hit this school I rigged a bonito and dropped him in. Nothing. And just then [smiley=stunned.gif] [smiley=shocked2.gif] .................................................. ....................................... more nothing. Time to go home. Sunburnt and only one schoolie between three and bonito for bait it was still good to be able to get back out there .
, always good to see a fellow ausfisher (and most importantly find out where the fish are 
). We had one of the most dissapointing days on the bay ever yesterday when it comes to chasing spotties. We headed out from manly in danes quintrex and made our way up past the m1, without seeing one school of spotties or even mac tuna! We did find some playful schools of longtails up around the m2 but they were near impossible to get a hookup on. I noticed throughout the bay yesterday the bait was very small , tiny infact. 
We covered a hell of a lot of water and jigged a whole lotta beacons for no takers. Tried everything, pillies, livies, floaters, weighted, trolling, jigging, spinning. I think the SE'er blew the buggers back up north ???
. Caught up with the Wezza and when on the hunt [smiley=rifle.gif]. Only surface activity spotted from Redcliffe to the Cape was some schools of mac tuna working near combie point. Wez had a nice hookup. Bill (father in law) jigged one schoolie off a beacon with two bite offs on weighted livies and Wade thought a trolled lure snagged some weed until pulling the blue pillie up and seeing a grinner smaller than the lure hooker on the back [smiley=freak.gif]