Bluewater

I took a day charter from Port Douglas a little over a month ago. To put it briefly, it was a trip of a life time. The day began with an approximate 8kg Northern Blue Fin on the second cast, a truck load of Big Eye Trevally on jigs, a 15kg GT and a 22Kg Spanish Mackerel!Also had a Black Marlin follow a jig to the boat. I’ll let the pictures tell the story. Bluewater

Any one had a trip with Akoonah Charters in Port Douglas? Considering taking a day trip with them whilst up there in September. Bluewater

Nice catch mate, is that a "stinger hook" you are using on the plastic? If so how often do you hook up on that hook?

Yeah there are a few rare catches around at the moment. A mate of mine recently caught a small Cobia in Brisbane Waters.

Well done Austral!

Bait, Tailor and Bonito fillets.

Fished Broken Bay on Friday. Plenty of schools of Tailor and Bonito mixed in, caught a heap of each. Kept a few for bait then hit the estuary of Brisbane Waters and ended up with 5 Bream to 37cm. All in all it was slow at times however I ended up with a feed.

Well done mate. Nice place Lobster beach, I often drop the family of there too and head out for a quick fish.

Worm.

I recently fished in a fishing comp. Whilst fishing near the Rip in Brisbane Waters, I managed to hook this Whiting which measured 43cm and is a PB for me.

Well done Austral, there are certainly a few nice bream around at the moment. Bluewater.

Yep I anchor up, I caught these fish on the northern side of the bridge.

Decided to take the old man out for a fish on Thursday so we hit our local water way. Started up in the Broadwater in search of Bream which didn't eventuate but we managed to pick up a just legal whiting and some big fat Blue Swimmers on hand lines. As the tide was quite low, I decided to gather some nippers and then moved to the Rip. It was there where we managed to catch ourselves a niece bag of whiting and Bream. All and all a great day out fishing and I managed to show the old man up (again). Final count,5 bream from 25 - 36cm 3 whiting 27 - 37cm and 4 large crabs.

Took the family down to visit some relo's at Narooma last week. I was lucky enough to fish on two occasions. First trip was on a charter to the infamous Montague Island. Given Montague's reputation as Kingfish heaven, I had my self syked up to do battle with some monster Kingy's. However due to recent rains, the majority of the Kingfish population had taken shelter elsewhere. Therefore after a live bait session, the skipper requested the deckie to deploy the Christmas tree lures in search of a few Bonnies on the troll. To say that the Bonito were on fire was an understatement. We could literally see the schools of bonito fighting each other off to be the first to grab the lure, these fish ranged from about 35cm to 70cm. Over the next hour, the five of us on board caught 28 of these arm stretching fish, all the excitement literally left me bruised and battered (note to self, take gimble belt next time). We then left the Bonito biting to try our luck at some bottom bashing. During this session I picked up my first Kingie, albeit a rat, on a plastic. I also managed a couple of half decent Snapper and a Mowie. On the way back to port we were also able to bag half a fish bin of decent sized sand Flathead. All in all, a fantastic days fishing and I can highly recommend a trip to Montague Island. A few days later, I borrowed a relo's tinny and with some advise on where to fish, I headed out for some bread and butter fishing on a local lake. Over about three hours I picked up six Bream, five over the 36cm mark and one a few millimeters short of 40cm. All fish were caught on nippers and all fish were quality. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera on board the Charter (slack I know) so there are no photo's of that trip however I have attached a few pics of the Bream.

Interesting, does this mean that problem has been rectified with all newly purchased motors?