Tanacom Tuesday 25.02.2020 Brown's Mnt

[zmk1962 686]

Hey Raiders,

A quick post to signal I'm back !! Returned to Oz just before the weekend after a few weeks  travelling ... hence the long silence since the last post.  I knew the boat was fully fuelled and we had salted pillies and frozen squid in the freezer. So checked the weather report as soon as the wheels touched down and spotted Tuesday was a go for a trip to Brown's - Maria was quick to agree - so we had our fishing trip sorted before we were off the plane !  Keen to wet a line  - just a tad.

Plan was to launch from Roseville, race out to Brown's and deep drop to see if the Blue eye had started their run, and then troll around for pelagics if we hit our oogly limit.  The winds would start to pick up around 11am so that was our cut off to start the trip back. Spent Monday checking the boat, running the motors and packing the Tanancoms and the Trolling gear. Found thermostats had seized on the 200 so raced to McGraths Hill to pick up a set - installed that, motors purring, all good. Just a niggling problem with the RH windscreen washer tank leaking water - hmmm not critical - fix that sometime during the week.

6.00am at Roseville and on the water. Only 2 other boats launching - a pro and a local.  A big trailer was already parked there otherwise the car park was empty.  Lots of rowers in middle harbour made for a slow trip to the spit, but then the trip out was glassy as - sitting on 45- 55km/h with just a few rough patches.

7.30am at Brown's.  Three boats there.  Positioned ourselves on the North mark, and set up the deep drops. Observed our drift - current North to South (4-5km/h), water blue 21.8C.  Spent the next 5hrs covering Browns with drifts. The action was slow.

Good news, we scored a Blue-eye each so were quite chuffed with that (the container length is 60cm).

We had two rigs bitten off on the retrieve at around 150-200m, and Maria's blue eye tangled with my line on the retrieve - so quite some time lost re-rigging. With the strong current it meant we spent a lot of time repositioning for drifts.  All in all we  never broke out the trolling gear. 

Having overstayed the 11am cut off  the trip back was going to be a bumpy one with the winds and cross chop as forecast . Averaged 30-35km/h and there were definitely lots of bone jarring potholes on the way back. Infact so many that Maria literally fell out of her seat !

Well, the bolts pulled through the seat base -  she was launched with the seat intact around her and crashed down into the rear deck area. Could have been bad, but fortunately she is fit and flexible and apart from some bruises all she has to show for it is a big grin - and the fact she caught the bigger blue eye !

...as for me...  another thing to fix. Guess its time to replace both seats.

Cheers Zoran

 

 

 

[Smobaby 10]

Great report nice feed marlin north and south of Sydney the water  has been shitty for weeks you picked the day had same problem with bolts pulling through the ply on similar style seats changed to Relax helm chair much better

[Rebel 285]

Great report.