Marcel

We arrived on the jetty to board our houseboat. Our home for the next week load our bags,food,beer and most important thing our fishing gear and head off with our houseboat and two tenders two poly crafts with 60hp yammy four strokes out of weipa harbour and around the corner heading down the leeders see our mooring go over and tie the houseboat up right near leeder 17. There's 6 of us on board 3 older blokes and 3 young blokes so 3 on each tender the old blokes wanted to start drinking beer on the mother ship so let them go I say lets go fishing so us three jump on the poly and start heading out the channel till we get to no 6 (houseboat owner said try there) we tie up to it and I drop down a soft plastic(drop bear) hits the bottom jig jig BANG I'm on zzzzzzzzzz snap straight around the channel marker f&&$ put another drop bear on hits the bottom jig jig BANG on again I quickly yell to one of the boys CUT THE ROPE so we cut the rope and the current takes us away from the channel marker cool its even game now after a 10 minute battle of blistering runs I see colour and up comes a big black Jew just fits in the net and there's high fives and swearing everywhere we'd been in weipa for about an hour and I've caught my fish of a lifetime(how goods this place) the other boys got a few small gts and a golden snapper the gts go back but we keep the snapper and head back to the mother ship the old fellas(half pissed) say how did you go we said we got 2 and pulled the smaller golden snapper out and they said is that it and I said no and THIS and pulled the jewie out(should've seen their eyes) weighed her and she went 10kg and it fed 6 of us for two nights!!!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Go on you tube and type tying braid to mono and the very first video is a good knot not sure what its called but he ties a surgeon loop with the braid then wraps it 9 to 10 times around the mono and then puts the mono end back through the braid loop it worked for me on a recent weipa trip as I just started using braid and landed a 10 kg black Jew

Justin hodges

Hi just wondering if anyone knows if you can still get berkley power bait in the 2 inch minnow you use to be able to but all I can find now is only the 3 inch minnow thanks in advance

I fished the northern break wall a week ago and they were open

+1 for robson green

I've heard of yellowfin caught off kiama blowhole

Use the lane furthest from jetty

Your game putting your toes that close to a tailors mouth. Nice catch mate

The fish is a frigate mackerel

I'd say fathoms

I have just joined up this morning under the name dragon army is this ok??

Great report thanks for sharing

Nice fish mate. Is that on the shoal haven?

Gotta love when the ship drops the anchor on the tugboat

Bonito is very nice. My wife isn't a big fish fan and bonito is her favourite fish. It is very similar to albacore like chicken in my opinion. Just make sure you bleed and cut blood line out.

That is correct muzza

Nice catch mate you don't see many of them around

Excellent tips butch thanks for sharing

I agree with mulloway man

15kg mono tiagra 30. 24kg mono tiagra 50. 37kg mono tiagra 80 that's my 2 cents

Is that a 25ft Bertram? Nice boat I'd love too see what you go game fishing in!!!!

It can get a bit surgy at times. Also launch as far from jetty as can(towards mountain) as sand tends to build up against jetty. You can get snapper and kings straight out the front at the Bommie,flatties off most beaches and there's a reef only 6 mile out called bandit which has marlin in summer

Travacalm originals work for me

I build and install turnouts,crossovers and catchpoints