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Dawn and dusk are good but I fish whenever I can. I generally like the incoming tide in that area.

Thanks for the info. I thought the Navionocs map was showing moorings there when I made the video but I just checked the Garmin map and it isn't showing any. Good to know. Thank you.

Thank you. For the Mackerel I generally troll between 5 and 6 kts but when I'm not getting anything I vary it between 4 and 7 knots to see if that changes anything. On this trip nothing changed. When I am catching a heap of grinners I also bring the lures in closer to the boat as that is supposed to help. It didn't. I am definately catching more grinners than I ever have in the past. The only saving grace is that I have finally found a use for them as crab bait.

I prefer size 8 or 10 for Yakkas, but all I had on board that trip was 6 and 12 so I used the 12s.

@@weFishAU yeh ok cheers

:-)

You're welcome. Judging from my results I am sure you will do better with full mono or at least a long mono leader.

I use a long mono leader on braid..

Thank you. I thought I could learn to use braid but switching to the very long mono leader seems to be just as good as using all mono used to be for me.

I should when I am winding in, but that is usually the last thing on my mind with a fish on. :-)

Best if you can but most pumps aren't rated for continious use. Mine isn't. One day I will replace it.

Wherever you go in the central or northern area of the bay you will need to watch the weather. That said, It's a relatively short trip from Wellington Point to Green Island. Cleveland/Raby Bay to Peel is a little bit further but quite doable on a good day (thinking of your sons anxiety here). There is fishing close to Cleveland and Wellington Point so you could start in close and see how he goes. Around Huybers light is one spot near Wellington Point but there is patchy reef all the way from Cleveland to Wellington Point so if you can identify that on your sounder you could try any of them. You could also drop some crab pots in that area. There is also reef in Raby Bay itself, which is close to the ramp. There is a video in that playlist that will give you some general spots to try. Hope this helps.

Thank you. I took him out to a new spot and ramp today and he did pretty good so I think were getting there.

Thanks, I will give it a go. The gulp oil is nearly all gone from the packet.

@@ianfischer4141 with all the jenny's it should be.

Thanks for watching!

It surely does, and that one was close to getting it if it hadn't dropped off whan it did. :-)

Had one full pot but only 4 keepers. I have to search for them again as well. I had a troll around a couple of trips ago and came up empty as well. They are around but not when I am out, so far.

LOL. No doubt that is the cheapest boat to have. :-)

I have 4 rods with overheads. The custom one I bought and the one I build are much the same. The other two I use for trolling. The more expensive one is noticeably better and I also use it for bottom bashing offshore. I was using the modified rig at first, but the #6 hooks were too big to catch anything. Pretty happy with the result and our granddaughter enjoyed the feed.

You mean the circuit breaker back near the battery? U.S. Coast Guard regulations require a fuse or circuit breaker as close to the battery as possible. I figure that is probably a good rule to follow, even though it is not required in Australia.

Never fished for whiting from a boat

The southern end of the Amity banks. Start near where the Maroom gutter ends and look around till you find them on your sounder. I have also heard they are in Fisherman's Gutter and at the top end of the Maroom gutter. Probably lots of other places as well, but that's the ones I have heard of.

@@weFishAU Thank you!!

Excellent. Very well done. That is a good bay snapper. Glad to hear it.

Thank you, glad you found them helpful.

Thank you. That was on the 16th, the day Snapper season opened.

Thank you. I need to search for the crabs, I would like to get a few more than just a bare feed. The gadgets we have these days are certainly a far cry from the old Furuno paper and stylus sounder which was my first exposure to the technology. Don't we all, I am still surprised at how small a piece of structure is needed to attract fish. The cuttlefish can surprise, but they also seem to ink whenever I put them in water.

There's a few spoiled grounds

Navionics calls it the "Foul Ground". Northeast of Harries. There are several other areas that Navionics marks as "Spoil Ground"

@weFishAU thanks for that, much appreciated 👍

Thank you. Couldn't agree more, pleasure to be out on days like that.

Glad you liked it!

They did, and the next day helped (next weeks video) as well. :-) Thank you.

Glad to hear it!

Thank you, I'm glad you like them. Good tip about the snot weed. I prefer not to collect it :-) but I will try your suggestion next time.

@@weFishAU I would love to have a chat to you one day about your Bay Sport and learn your impressions so far.

@@terrytailor If you are on facebook, DM me at facebook.com/wefishAU/

Old bait. After it's been out with me a few times, thawed and refrozen, it goes into the burley compartment of the freezer. I either chop it into small pieces and toss one over every minute or so or I put it in the burley bucket and use the plunger every now and then to send some particles out. See this video for the burley dispenser: ruclips.net/video/o4tiQXrE-wk/видео.html

@@weFishAU love it! Thank you for this. That’s great. Oh I tried to get my name on the RBC list. They’ve got 49 people on the waiting list and they’ve closed their books. That is a clear sign that the public ramps aren’t doing their job at satisfying the growing demand on the weekends

The club held its AGM on the 25th. I believe there was going to be a decision about alowing new members in at that meeting. Might pay to keep an eye on the waiting list for a week or two, see if it opens up for a period.

Yeah, back then we didn't know what we were missing.

Thank you. Like yourself, I hadn't heard of squid jigs until recent years. Prior to that I used a more brute force approach :-) I really enjoy chasing them on jigs now though, wish I had started earlier.

Thank you. Glad you liked it and got something out of it. As you say, too many videos of people just catching fish.

Thank you. Fishing with your kids makes a lot of great memories. One good thing about your young fella not liking to eat fish, leaves more for you. :-)

@@weFishAU100% !

Awesome, thank you. It's been a LOT of years since I crabbed the north side of the bay. We did get a good feed of crabs dropping pots in Pumistone passage back in the early 90's. Used to stay at the Toorbul caravan park and drop the pots mostly south from the ramp if I remember correctly. Also in Elimbah creek I think. Watch out for the green zone north of there. I know there are sandies out from the sandhills on Moreton Island. And I have seen pots dropped near Crab Island in Days Gutter. I have mentioned some crabbing spots in the Moreton Bay playlist. The only one I remember is about 3 1/2 minutes into this video: ruclips.net/video/IfLvba3JE3w/видео.html Not sure if there are any others. My best tip is to keep an eye out for where others are crabbing reguarly and drop your somewhere in that area, not too close to theirs. The trick is to find the depth they are at and then put all your pots at a similar depth in that area. Hope you get a good feed.

No, the hooks on that rig are size 6. I usually use size 6, 8 or 10. 12 occasionally. I feel that 8 is a good all round compromise, but sometimes I can pick up rigs with the other sizes a lot cheaper.

Thank you, glad you like them.

Thank you. I'm glad they aren't available on eBay any more. The one featured in that video was sold as stainless steel but it was not. Rusted out same as the first one. Check out this video to see how I eventually solved the problem: ruclips.net/user/shorts7vUhduE18Ak

Thanks, will do!

I didnt have too much of a problem with that. It just didn't suit my jigging style like the Penn rod, I catch a lot more fish with the Penn.

Thank you. Yes I did. There is so much stikaflex on the installation that I expect I will have to break the pipe to get it off so I have been putting it off. I will have to attend to it before too much longer.

@@weFishAU Not urgent I reckon but it could let you down when you least expect it, unlikely to sink the boat though. I think it is a testament to your photography that I actually saw it.

@@constable49 True, it is always in the back of my mind.

Thank you.

I have used a sounder since the late 60'2 when my father bought a Furuno sounder that recorded the fish on a paper roll. We still used marks back then, and again when I fished from the tender when I had the big boat and no sounder on the tender, so I have experience of doing it both ways. I would hate to go back to doing it without a sounder now.

Thank you.

It's not always easy, but having the right bait and finding the fish on the sounder helps a lot :-)

I have been hooked a couple of times so I always want an even number of hooks on my sabiki so I can link them together, out of the way. Yes, it has been cracked for a little while. The stikaflex is holding it securely. I need to break the whole thing out to fix it, so I have put it off for the last couple of months.>ven if the nut does break I think the stikaflex will hold it.

There seem to be more grinners around now than I ever remember encountering.

@weFishAU I've only started fishing the bay this year, sure are alot of grinners out there.

My father started taking me fishing before I started school, so I have been fishing the bay and offshore for about 60 years now,. Sharks are worse now as well.

@weFishAU that's why I've been watching. I don't know my way around yet but you do. Cheers for the vids