Bull
09-05-2012, 08:10 AM
Howdy Gents,
We made a late decision to head up to Bundy and take advantage of the super forecast. So we loaded the boat Saturday afternoon. Cobiaman and I hit the road next stop Tinshacks place on top of the hill overlooking very still seas with hardly a breath of wind.
We loaded the boat ready for an early start Sunday morning when Dave ( Tinshack ) says I wont be able to sleep lets go now. It took all of about 5 seconds to agree so at 11pm the boat is in the water and we are on our way to one of Dave's secrete spots.
We get to our first spot and its blowing about 12knots and Graeme ( Cobiaman ) drops a line in and is on straight away to something decent 5 mins later up comes a big ugly catfish. Next drop another big ugly catfish.
At this point we jump onto BOM and its blowing all of 3 knots at Lady Elliott Island so its off to fish a few spots along the way towards L E I. The wind slowly picked up the further we went out. At about 4am we were knackered so we headed around the north east side of L E I for a kip.
Sunday morning saw a solid 20+ knot south westerly blowing so we sat there and talked a little nonsense while hoping it would drop out. About midday we thought we would head out and try to have a fish but it was too shitty so we started the long slog home sitting on 10 knots for the first hour. The conditions got better the closer we got to land to the point where it almost glassed out.
Dave then took us to his Spanish Mack spot where he never fails but guess what we failed lol. But while trolling we marked some good shows on the sounder and later fished these for a very nice feed of Grassies, Spangled & husser. Also having a close encounter with a 3+m Hammerhead who took a liking to some of our fish.
On our way in we stopped to assist a boat that set off a flare about 35kms offshore. Dave had there engine running for them in about an hour. 5 very happy & relieved guys on that boat. I wasn't looking forward to towing them in so I was pretty happy as well.
Cheers Brett
PS The wheel Bearings held up ;D
We made a late decision to head up to Bundy and take advantage of the super forecast. So we loaded the boat Saturday afternoon. Cobiaman and I hit the road next stop Tinshacks place on top of the hill overlooking very still seas with hardly a breath of wind.
We loaded the boat ready for an early start Sunday morning when Dave ( Tinshack ) says I wont be able to sleep lets go now. It took all of about 5 seconds to agree so at 11pm the boat is in the water and we are on our way to one of Dave's secrete spots.
We get to our first spot and its blowing about 12knots and Graeme ( Cobiaman ) drops a line in and is on straight away to something decent 5 mins later up comes a big ugly catfish. Next drop another big ugly catfish.
At this point we jump onto BOM and its blowing all of 3 knots at Lady Elliott Island so its off to fish a few spots along the way towards L E I. The wind slowly picked up the further we went out. At about 4am we were knackered so we headed around the north east side of L E I for a kip.
Sunday morning saw a solid 20+ knot south westerly blowing so we sat there and talked a little nonsense while hoping it would drop out. About midday we thought we would head out and try to have a fish but it was too shitty so we started the long slog home sitting on 10 knots for the first hour. The conditions got better the closer we got to land to the point where it almost glassed out.
Dave then took us to his Spanish Mack spot where he never fails but guess what we failed lol. But while trolling we marked some good shows on the sounder and later fished these for a very nice feed of Grassies, Spangled & husser. Also having a close encounter with a 3+m Hammerhead who took a liking to some of our fish.
On our way in we stopped to assist a boat that set off a flare about 35kms offshore. Dave had there engine running for them in about an hour. 5 very happy & relieved guys on that boat. I wasn't looking forward to towing them in so I was pretty happy as well.
Cheers Brett
PS The wheel Bearings held up ;D