The AVON, is an old steel wreck. Also the area known as White Patch, does not have any morning areas. Kind regards and I have enjoyed watching your videos.
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.
Another great video. What speed are you generally trolling at? Do you also think theres been a massive increase in grinners in the past years? I cant remember catching so many as a young fella.
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.
The case for mono for snapper is too hard to ignore. I love mono for the sensitivity and all the reasons you mentioned but I can not see why mono would be better but the proof is in the eating and eating and I will set up a mono rod just for shallow water snapper. Thanks for the vid and the tips.
I started running mono for my snapper fishing on recommendation from others and I must say, I catch 20 to 1 snapper on the mono verse braid. Absolute game changer for me. Another great vid and always something to learn - thanks.
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.
Thanks for all your videos. I have a little 4.3 fishabout as my son wanted to get into fishing and boating. I've taken it out at Jacobs well plenty of times with him but he has anxiety and stresses alot so been hesistant to take him to new spots. I love the look of Moreton where are some safe areas to venture around on a good day with him? we've only ever caught small bream, whiting and occasional flatty around Jacobs well I really want to take him into some deeper water and catch something exciting for him but just unsure where to start. Was thinking maybe Wellington point or Cleveland and just staying close to the mainland maybe?
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.
Without wanting to pre-empt your next video, how'd you go with the crabs? I put some pots in at the 5m mark between Clevland Pt & Wellington Pt and didn't even get a nibble on the bait. Had a mackeral trolling board out in the Rous Channel too and it was absolutely lousy with grinners. At least I have plenty of crab bait for next time now, if I can find where they went.
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.
Great weather! the rod you built looks like it's doing a grand job, do you find it any better to use than a standard overhead? The sabiki rig always seems to tangle for me too and I see you are not using your modified ones on this trip. I do find that they tangle less when I use a much larger sinker. Looks like you have filled the order pretty well, I look forward to the second half of this trip. Thanks again for an entertaining video.
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.
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.
A great feed again,I was worried you may have lost the crabs but you came through again as always. The snapper like the new rod I see, I love the navionic sequences, your gear is a far cry from the humble electronics I used to use and the shots are intriguing. It always surprised me when fish congregated on a small patch of gravel or tiny bit of structure but I never worked out why they would prefer it to other similar structures around them. I wish I had the key. Those bloody cuttlefish! The buggers always seemed to know the most awkward time to fire a greasy black broadside. I never got it right.
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.
Thanks for the video! I'm new to the area. Just wondering if the foul ground you mention is the same area as what navionics calls the spoil grounds? Cheers
I love your information rich videos and your straight forward delivery. I always learn something, thanks. I'm in the my later 60s as well and remember being in my teens and seeing a fellow at the Woody Point jetty using a prawn on a squid spike. He wrapped it up with cotton to stop them tearing it apart, as big prawns were quite expensive then. Regarding the snot weed on the barbs, I just hold the jig upside down and use a toothbrush to clear it.
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: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o4tiQXrE-wk.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.
I remember anchoring under the light at the end of the sand loading jetty at Dunwich one night. Would have been around 45 years ago now I guess. The water was just black with them. We didn't try to catch them though as back then it never occurred to us. We'd never heard of Calamari. LOL.
I have been a keen amateur fisherman since I can remember, I am 75 now and have fished most of Australia, South East Asia, the barrier reef, Solomons, New Guinea, and several other Pacific Islands and I still learn something from your video every week. I have never before seen anyone use prawns on a squid jig! I have of course used the prawn-shaped jigs but never thought it through. I spent my formative years around Port Phillip and fished the huge squid and cuttlefish there using jigs and a mullet for bait as the fluoro jigs and the prawn-shaped jigs had not been invented then. The squid in the waters just inside the rip entrance to Port Phillip used to just fit in a Nally bin in those days and were prolific. I guess we used mullet as that was their natural catch there as large prawns did not exist in the cold water. My point is to thank you once again for sharing and proving that an old dog can still learn new tricks.
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.
Noting a comment about a mark at the time, but later, it becoming a cryptic puzzle, is spot on. Many thanks for taking the time to do this video and pointing people in the general area. Too many vids are just about showing a fish coming up and someone saying "that's a beauty" with no related info. Again, many thanks.
Awesome stuff! As a Redlander and a land fisher who’s about to buy his first boat, thank you! My son loves fishing, but doesn’t love the taste lol. I on the other hand could eat fish every day. 😃
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. :-)
Hi Thanks for the vid, great end to end info, shared in simple and interesting way😊 You have perked my interest to get some pots, Everyone talks about south side sandies, is there any decent spots on the north side of the bay?
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: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IfLvba3JE3w.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.
I have been using size 6 or 8 hooks for mine, mainly catching herring on them for threadies in the brisbane river if my cast net spots draw a blank. Is there a reason you use 1/0 hooks? Just curious if I should make the change.
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.
A great informative series, I have fished Moreton and Surround for over 40 years and still pick something up from every one of your vids. Thank you once again.
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: ru-vid.com7vUhduE18Ak
Huge amount of information in those vids, thank you, I enjoy all of your videos and look forward to them each week. Did you notice that the nut on your bait tank drain/inlet pipe is cracked?
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.
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.
I watched all of them and I am not sure I learned anything new but good to watch anyway, just in case. I am lazy and just cut the sabiki rigs in half and have only three hooks as I find them a lot easier to manage. Couldn't help noticing that nut on your live bait well entry pipe is cracked but I am sure you will be aware of it. Thank you once again I look forward to your vids each week.
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.
Grinners seem to try to eat anything no matter the size. Had a squire and a tailor on one lure a couple of months ago. Squire on the back hook tailor on front.
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.
