Peter Nelson

Good to see you and Mick out there. The current made it difficult to read the drift, I was surprised how there was bugger all debri floating around. I could hear you cursing from over where we were fishing, I knew you must have lost a good one.

Nice fish mate did you put the big one on the measuring stick?

Good to see you out there mate. theres definitely some big ones swimming around with some new jewellery. That first one I hooked was a horse

Some nice fish mate. always good when you can come home early with a decent haul, not that I know the feeling ha ha👍 Maybe next Friday

Looks like a nice spot mate. At least you were able to get out of the wind and nail a few👍

Hi I’m looking at buying a new live bait tank with chopping board on top. I was thinking about a Pro wave, has anyone got one and what’s your thoughts? My old tank is a home made one which sits inside the boat talking up floor space which I don’t have much of, that’s why I’m looking at one that bolts to the top of the gunwale. Any other brand or suggestions would be great. thanks

Can’t complain with that mate. what did the damage, plastics?

Getting them between 10-20m. It can be a big snaggy at 10m so need to really watch your retrieve and jig head weight

Had the day off and after speaking with @Scratchiewe decided to hit Broughton hoping to find a Snapper or 2 and maybe a longtail. Woke up early only to find a big storm just off the coast so was crossing my fingers it would disappear and as It was it did, I think the thunder woke Scratchie up bright and early. Hit cabbage tree up for bait but it was dead and only managed about 5, so pushed on to Broughton for first light. As always the wind forecast was wrong, predicted S/E, was actually blowing N/W and water fairly brown so I wasn’t overly confident but we were still keen to make it work. First drift livie Deployed and flicking plastics for snapper. Got a nice little pannie on boat just as the livie screams off, after a tussle up comes a Mac tuna. Another few drifts equals another tuna, small snapper and heaps of just under size kings. moved spots livie got hammered but missed it and probably our chances of a long tail as it was the last livie. we were about to call it a day when we thought we would try one more area and lucky we did as up comes a nice 58cm to finish the morning off. it turned out to be a top morning and I don’t know how many snapper we actually missed and dropped as well, thinking maybe the dirty water was making them miss the plastics, who knows.

Good to hear your back out there mate.Hope to see you out there soon

Thanks mate. ive frozen it all up for bait now but if I get one I keep next time I might try some👍

Yeah mate every time I tried to re rig or organise boat a bit another rod would scream off, had some breakfast packed and didn’t even get to eat it until the trip back. maybe I should set up a go pro or something

Hi all havnt put a report in for a while due to average catches but thought I’d do a quick one and might get some answers to a question. Hit Broughton nice and early after quickly loading up on some livies trying to get there by first light, got there on time even though there was a fair bit of slop left over from the overnight n/e winds. I normally don’t fish weekends but was motivated by Scratchie’s report of mackerel in the area. happy to be the only boat in the area the first livey was set only to be smashed 30 seconds later, Big Mac tuna came in. Every drift , every livey was smashed resulting in more tuna, 3 snapper, heaps of rat kings. got smoked 3 times by what we think were good kings as they stayed deeper then the tuna and leaders were scuffed up by the reef. Managed to destroy one reel due to heavy drag and getting spooled. Bummer struggled to get any more snapper due to the kings hitting every bait or plastic . Ended up Keeping 3 Big Mac tuna due to them getting gut hooked and I was fishing with wire in case a Spanish turn up. I really enjoy my smoked fish and beef jerky and the question I have has anyone smoked one before or made fish jerky?, I only thought of jerky as its flesh is very red, meaty so thought it could be an option. Ill be keeping some for bait as well or maybe all of it. Sorry for the lack of photos as it was hectic out there and didn’t get around to it, and normally don’t photo what I consider a bait fish. cheers

Nice one mate. Hope the weather plays the game for Friday.

Nice snapper mate and thanks for the hand getting the boat on the trailer. I hate that ramp, ha ha