Mates get together off Gladstone

[Ynot560]

Well its almost been 12 months since the 3 of us got together for a serious fish, and to be able to do it in "Noboatyet"s" new 6.0m Eden Craft was absolutely awesome. It was the first long run for the boat after many weeks of fitting out, including the manufacturing of the hardtop frame work and wiring. The run from the Boyne ramp at 3am Monday morning was absolutely great with relatively flat conditions. We arrived at at our mark at approx 5am and we weren't dissapointed with a couple nice sweetlip and trout the first to hit the deck. The fishing continued relatively steady with a few undersize reds and more sweetlip, a couple more trout and a very nice 13 kg Red. As the run began to inrease the fishing eased, We moved around to several different area's but the fishing didn't pick back up until the run eased again. Another nice Red of 10 kg was landed and a few more sweetlip, hussar and trout. With a nice catch of fish in the esky at 1:30 pm we decided that we would head home while the conditions were still flat. Overall it was an absolute cracker of a day on the water. Thankyou very much "noboatyet" for the oppurtunatey to wet a line in the new boat, I think you may need a new username now however.

Cheers Ynot560

[Astro]

Nice reds, what kind of speeds you get out of the 200 E-Tec

[Spaniard_King]

Thanks for the report ynot560 :)

Great boats those EC's. I am toying with changing mine to the Hardtop version as well. What do you think of the hardtop?

Those kill tanks are great to hey!

[noboatyet]

Thanks for posting the report Seith, it was a great day. Hopefully we'll get back there real soon.

Astro, It cruises nicely at 35-36 mph. Topped out the other day at 43 mph, thats with 3 of us full of all our gear and 300 lts of fuel. Still only have 20 hours up so well see how it settles in.

Gary, Love the hardtop really glad I went that way. All I have left to do is build the rocket launcher, that will have to wait till after xmas.

Cheers

Murray

[Gazza.Boyne]

They are some nice size Reds & trout there & conditions looked great.

[lethal098]

congrats on the great trip guys, i am sure there are many envious people going to look at these photos. cheers lethal

[jtpython]

Mate nice on the big red and the boat looks great,
JT

[mangomick]

Nice haul Mate. Looks like you would have got a bit of blood in the new boat to christen her

[Benno1]

im a bit of a rainbow atm...green with envy...blue that it wasnt ME catching those quality fish...but i do love the colour red :D
fresh hussar wings do the damage Ynot??? ...glad you boys had a pearler of a day :D
cheers for the report and piccies...

Mrs Benno1
Sunny

[Ynot560]

Mangomick, The Deckwash ensured all fresh blood was quickly cleaned away.

Benno1, Fresh Hussar fillets, Wings, and Heads did a great job, only the odd small shark hassled us.

Cheers Ynot560

[tfish]

some great lookin fish in that lot. congrats on the capture....those 200 e-tecs have some go!!!!! cheers trav

[Horse]

Nice way to blood the boat. There should be many more great reports to come. There are some top grounds up there

[Fishbait]

Some nice Reds there - keep the reports coming with your new boat. There a massive fish aren't they! Cheers, Darren.

[trueblue]

nice reds. I like the look of the eden craft boats