sunday arvo wide cape

[snapperbasher]

hey guys, weather looked good sunday arvo so planned a trip close to the cape to try for something other than snapper. Left manly boat ramp at 1130 and headed to the four beacons to jig up some livies had a bait tank full of scad and pike in a hour so headed up the cape in perfect conditions. we were planning on fishing sundown so had plenty of time and decided to troll a few lures for a while for no luck when we pulled up on the mark there were good shows on the sounder but the wind was starting to blow from the ne and there was a fair bit of current running from the south which made it very hard to anchor correctly so after trying 4 times to sit right decided it would be to hard to fish and headed wide of the cape again to get a few snapper. arrived there about 5;00 and first baits in hooked up to average squire which were released in hope of bigger fish. the next couple of drifts saw us land a handfull of snappery squire soon as the sun went down the fish shut down and the wind startied blowing about 20 - 25 knts ne so called it a night with a few fish for a feed. the run back to the cape was ordinary to say the least but the bay was still quite flat. we arrived at manly about 930 and went home for a much needed warm shower.

[snapperbasher]

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[noluck]

nice fish there
well done
but dasn't look that much wind was there

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ65119/IDQ65119.94594.shtml
no_luck

[snapperbasher]

hey no luck, just looked at those observations they were probably right at the cape but out wider it was much worse 20 knots at least.





cheers lochie

[snapperbasher]

by the way no luck, is that your bar crusher in your avatar?

[outsiderskip]

glad i never went
good to see u got a few at least

pete

[john_laura]

Hey Snapperbasher

What sort of rig do you have there?

Length?
Drive position?
Fuel capacity?

I just saw your boat in the pics and wondering how wide you go etc.
John

[noluck]

by the way no luck, is that your bar crusher in your avatar?

this one on photo is not my ( i find somewhere on net)
my is in back yard
cheers no_luck

[-spiro-]

We were at the banks and the weather was the same. Fadil m8 it was 20+ i'm telling you-rough as guts and it nearly got some of mine ;D

[snapperbasher]

deathstar3, I built my boat myself it is 6 mtr #tiller steer #fuel capacity is 120 lt and I have been upto 25 km from the cape and taken it out to lady musgrave island from 1770. there are some more pics of it in my last post (offshore moreton bagout).