bdaearth
17-05-2009, 09:06 PM
Got to the old mans place(bribie) on Saturday morning at about 4:30am to find a bit of a breeze but nothing to worry about, but the fact that the first thing he says to me is the vhf, sounder and plotter are are no go is:'( . I find out that he has turned the fridge on the night before to suck the house batteries flat>:( .A phone call later and he tells me it ok auto elecy said they will charge pretty quick once we get going if we have everything off:-/ .With duet in my mind about that off we head to get to the point of bribie with still nothing!!!! Ok thats cool we can get past this another phone call and a battery and jumper lead are dropped to us at the bongaree jetty(It was about this point we should have turned around and went home)
I have done a couple of trips to the banks from bribie with the old boy in some perfect and not so perfect conditions and was not that keen on heading up there but one of the boys on board wanted to meet a mate up there and get shown a few new spots:P so I thought mmmmmm new spots I'm in.
We had a not to bad run up there with the wind a swell going with us. We arrive to find the other boat in the middle of a washing machine but with 15 assorted reefies onboad. we pull up to get going and I find out that I am the only one on board that can rig up so 5 rods later I get a line wet>:( .First drift sees about 15 rat red throat emperor and two parrot not bad ones but nothing to get excited about. then the boat we had come all the way to fish with pisses off and I think great. We go to pull the sea anchors in to find the shackle has undone one sea anchors gone>:( off we go to check a few of our marks with not much on them:'( so we head to a mark that was left in the plotter from previous owner in about 75m and it looked the part so we anchors up on it but couldn't get the fish to bit(except the underside rte which would not stop) I finally get a legal rte 39cm::) .I turn to see the anchors retrieval ball floating away and to old boy saying I must not have put that on right:( I then spend the best part of a hour pulling it by hand:o and then chasing down the ball!!!
The call is made to start to head back toward home and check some marks on the way. Belted back into the swell and wind lucky to get 15 knots.Had to come in close and got to caloundra before it go any good and started to head toward hutchies and was able to sit on 24 knots all the way there. Fished around there for about 2 hours to get nothing not even a bite:'( .We get ready to pull anchors to find it is stuck>:( the old boy kicks me out from behind the wheel and snaps the anchors rope doing a really scary run to try and pull it and some how I get the blame:o
We then headed for home in glassed out condition at 38 knots!!!!:D for the total of three fish for about 10 hours !!!
If you are reading this thinking you poor bastard and have a few marks closer to bribie feel free to pm me :-X as all of our marks are at wide cal and higher as all the boys we know fish north.
I have done a couple of trips to the banks from bribie with the old boy in some perfect and not so perfect conditions and was not that keen on heading up there but one of the boys on board wanted to meet a mate up there and get shown a few new spots:P so I thought mmmmmm new spots I'm in.
We had a not to bad run up there with the wind a swell going with us. We arrive to find the other boat in the middle of a washing machine but with 15 assorted reefies onboad. we pull up to get going and I find out that I am the only one on board that can rig up so 5 rods later I get a line wet>:( .First drift sees about 15 rat red throat emperor and two parrot not bad ones but nothing to get excited about. then the boat we had come all the way to fish with pisses off and I think great. We go to pull the sea anchors in to find the shackle has undone one sea anchors gone>:( off we go to check a few of our marks with not much on them:'( so we head to a mark that was left in the plotter from previous owner in about 75m and it looked the part so we anchors up on it but couldn't get the fish to bit(except the underside rte which would not stop) I finally get a legal rte 39cm::) .I turn to see the anchors retrieval ball floating away and to old boy saying I must not have put that on right:( I then spend the best part of a hour pulling it by hand:o and then chasing down the ball!!!
The call is made to start to head back toward home and check some marks on the way. Belted back into the swell and wind lucky to get 15 knots.Had to come in close and got to caloundra before it go any good and started to head toward hutchies and was able to sit on 24 knots all the way there. Fished around there for about 2 hours to get nothing not even a bite:'( .We get ready to pull anchors to find it is stuck>:( the old boy kicks me out from behind the wheel and snaps the anchors rope doing a really scary run to try and pull it and some how I get the blame:o
We then headed for home in glassed out condition at 38 knots!!!!:D for the total of three fish for about 10 hours !!!
If you are reading this thinking you poor bastard and have a few marks closer to bribie feel free to pm me :-X as all of our marks are at wide cal and higher as all the boys we know fish north.