Dirty Boat Photos
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 6:16 pm
I am always showing clean boats, here are some photos from a couple of months ago when we got the demo boat dirty, unfortunately we don't do this nearly enough!
We got off to a late start as there wasn't any plan to go fishing this day. The weather was fantastic so I rang my mate and my brother in law. Neither of them had fishing gear. I had to go pick up the boat and the gear from three different locations and pick up the car from a night out , so very late getting on the water.
At the very least I was chasing the hour before change of tide and we made that!
In all the fuss I forgot my GPS Locations notebook. I haven't fished this boat before. So decided to go to some landmarks close by I knew of for a drift fish. We fished for half an hour and nothing, so decided to head out but back towards port. I was on a course to a depth of water I wanted to try. A charter boat was ahead of me with a lure out the back. so I stopped, I said oh well might as well throw the lines over here while we wait for the other boat to pass.
We put the lines down and all three reels went off, pulled them up and got snapper. So I marked the spot. We carried on drifting nothing more was caught. So we headed back up to above the mark, this time we were maybe max 50mtrs further out and we caught good size blue cod, again all three reels at once then nothing. The next run was 50mtrs inland of the mark and again all three reels but this time gurnard. So we consistently caught the fish every run except for my grumpy South African mate who ad a dry run for a couple of runs. Told him the fish can sense the grumpy old sod on the other end of the line. We even swapped rods and then positions for him but no could only mean he was too grumpy.
So this very little reef has turned out to be a great little spot very close to port. I guess great for a mrginal day or maybe a good spot to take the kids on a super fine day.
We got off to a late start as there wasn't any plan to go fishing this day. The weather was fantastic so I rang my mate and my brother in law. Neither of them had fishing gear. I had to go pick up the boat and the gear from three different locations and pick up the car from a night out , so very late getting on the water.
At the very least I was chasing the hour before change of tide and we made that!
In all the fuss I forgot my GPS Locations notebook. I haven't fished this boat before. So decided to go to some landmarks close by I knew of for a drift fish. We fished for half an hour and nothing, so decided to head out but back towards port. I was on a course to a depth of water I wanted to try. A charter boat was ahead of me with a lure out the back. so I stopped, I said oh well might as well throw the lines over here while we wait for the other boat to pass.
We put the lines down and all three reels went off, pulled them up and got snapper. So I marked the spot. We carried on drifting nothing more was caught. So we headed back up to above the mark, this time we were maybe max 50mtrs further out and we caught good size blue cod, again all three reels at once then nothing. The next run was 50mtrs inland of the mark and again all three reels but this time gurnard. So we consistently caught the fish every run except for my grumpy South African mate who ad a dry run for a couple of runs. Told him the fish can sense the grumpy old sod on the other end of the line. We even swapped rods and then positions for him but no could only mean he was too grumpy.
So this very little reef has turned out to be a great little spot very close to port. I guess great for a mrginal day or maybe a good spot to take the kids on a super fine day.