harold

The traffic gets noticeably worse each and every year. If I had my way we would be living at sanctuary cove but alas my vote doesn't count!

I didn't know that. So if you don't use crab traps, how else do you catch them? By hand?

The news is saying the fires down there are very dangerous, be careful if you go that way.

Poetic justice I would say. Good on you Liz.

I should have posted this here weeks ago, I didn't think of it. To celebrate safety month we are running a competition with 3 Fitbits as prizes. All you have to do is answer 3 safety related questions and that puts you in the draw. I think it is drawn this coming Friday. Go to hba.edu.au and click on the blog a the top of the page and scroll through the recent articles until you find the competition. Alternatively if you go to our Facebook page you can link in from there. i hope you win one of them. all the best.

Great fish and good on you for landing it after such a fight. It sure has been windy on weekends, we haven't been on the boat for 3 weeks and a quick look on seabreeze says this Saturday it is a mite windy yet again.

I remember going to bribie island for my first honeymoon in 1972. I imagine it has changed a great deal since then. I recall driving down the road in the rain trying to run over as many cane toads as I could. great fish and thanks for the memories.

Excellent work and great tips.

Looks like the water out the front of the Darwin Co-op to me. enjoy your time up there.

We have all experienced tne same thing. Next time out you may well fill the boat, that's the crazy thing about fishing. Enjoy while you can.

looks good and must have been a truck load of work. Congratulations to all involved for a great outcome

I feel for you. Also Te amo means I love you in Italian. Stay strong and remember she will never grow old in your mind. RIP

Good work and I am like you insomuch as I find it a lot of work casting and retrieving for no return. Maybe I will stick at it Longer than my usual 5 casts next time.

Abbotsford point

Now I am in strife. My son wanted to go over there on Saturday night to fish for Hairies and I told him not to be stupid as they would be long gone, thus we went to smiths creek. Just told him of your catch and now he is abusing me yet again.

Good looking fish, they are great eating that size.

I wanted to add that the larger jewfish we caught last night was actually dead. The poor thing had swum against the reel and rod for who knows how long and had succumbed to exhaustion. I tried to swim it in the water as we wanted to let it go but it showed no sign of life.

We were on the back mooring in Twilight Bay, second bay off smiths creek. Good luck if you go there.

We went out Friday afternoon and put out a line before going to bed and in the morning we had hooked a 43 cm Jewfish. Last night we did the same thing and I woke up to check the rod at 2 am and we had a circa 70cm fish on the end. These were both caught on our lightest rod with a small bream hook and a third of a prawn. have fished smiths creek many times but never caught a jewfish here before. Time to go back to sleep.

Eels in the Georges used to be common when I was a kid. Whatever it was enjoy and remember the excitement it gave you. Fishing is truly a love/hate relationship for us all.

It will be about $600 to truck it from Melb to Syd.

Actually to add to this, some years ago I asked our panel beater (when your wife hits as many things as mine in her car you tend to need a panel beater on a first name basis), what was safe and he reckoned the Mitsubishi Magna had the strongest chassis and bumper bars in the business.

Toyota anything seems to last forever.

I had a new transducer fitted last week. Seems mine was incorrectly mounted when the boat was manufactured and it has filled with water. What is interesting is that 2 different marine electricians told me to replace the pair of E120's as they were faulty. That's was a $20,000 job. In the end the job cost $2,900 including pulling the boat out. Just shows you how you can get stung on the water.

I am chicken when it comes to getting in the water off shore. Sharks don't nibble! It does sound like an extraordinary experience.