Hu wants to know wot I caught today ??????????????????????????

Have you been down to the fish & chip shop again?

We grabbed the papers yesterday morning and ducked down to the boat ramp to watch the entertainment, two empty trailers in the car park and didn't see one boat the whole time we were there.
It was overcast and not a breath of wind, I had this funny feeling you could have chucked a sneaky. :crim:

I'm waiting for a boat report update and you could tell us about the fish you bought too.

FED.
We should have gone for a float down stream!

Iknow! You told me so!

Yep Yep Botany Bay Fush Chop

Got up bright & early yesterday around 9 am was on the water by around 10.30 plan was to target sum big brimski's
Evlly bloody knows if ewe want to catch big brimski's live bait is required & wot better live bait 4 them than live kungys

Started off looking 4 squidies in the bay armed with the new range of Yoshikawa jigs only just arrived in oz & looked the goods, after an hr or so decided we were wasting our time not even a sign of a squiddy & decided to take advice I'd given a mate of mine, the water in the Bay is way to dirty with all the work going on & that makes it velly hard to get the squiddys.

So off we went on our merry way down Sth to jibbon, guess the goat got it's 1st run outside seas went bad occasional wave 1.5 meters or so but very sloppy all the way along kurnels cliff faces, twas a GooDarus investment adding those clears to the goat kept us nice & dry cause I was giving the throatle a wee bit of stick averaging around 18 knots all the way.

Not as stable as the Jumpus but mini me handled conditions velly well, finally got there & there was still sum breeze about so down went the lecky only took us an hr or so [time flys on the water] & we had 11 good size squid 4 bait & wun monster for my dinner the Yoshikawa's worked a treat swam , sank etc very nicely.

Live bait tank was black & so was alot of the goat runus fustus was out with me & he's not too bright hence why I call him Toovlo in wun ear & out the other all my squid got de inked b4 I brought them into the goat & I even showed toovlo how but like I said in wun ear & out the other next time I've gonna do wun of my specialties & get a suid to Zot toovlo in the face with it's ink

Last trip out I had the alarm going off on the black anchor once I got it up around 3000 revs it pissed me off cause water was nice & cool coming out the hose, nothing around the prop even pulled off the cowl to check oil all was good so next time alarm went off I left the motor runing & siren stopped after 5 seconds figured it was a dirty sensor cause it never went off again till yesterday.

Not only did it go off again but once I pushed 2000 revs motor started surging ready to die back into neutral & all was good push the throatle down again back came the surging I was not impressed @ all & regreted buying the stupid thing if anything the merc lived up to it's reputation as the Black Anchor

I turned it off & when I tried to crank it over again it was a no go as both batteries were flat, admitingly I do have quite a few accesorries on the goat which I dont turn off like sounder,mp3 player, gps & the wash down pump draws quite a fair bit of power esp with toovlo on board & I did jam the trigger on it so as I could clear all the black in in the lbt.

Have not been towed in for over 25 years & was not about to this time, fortunately there was another 2 batteries in the cab for the lecky pulled wun out & that got the motor started & this time no alarm going off, I was able to use the leads coming out of the isolating swith cause they were long enough to reach the spare batery then reconected it all back again cause I wanted the black anchor to recharge the 2 dead batteries.

All seemed good till I pushed up around 2000 revs then the surging started again, by this time I was really getting pissed off re checked the fuel system & all was good there was just about to crawl into the hacking & cat a cab back to botany bay to go fetch the trailer when I remembered sum ting.

2 strokes dont need a battery once they've started but 4 bangers do they'll cut out every time without battery power so I hooked up the lecky battery again started the anchor down went the throatle & guess wot ????????

No alarm & no surging !

Spoke to my Scoty2Hottys & they told me the lithian crystals had charged up so peeps we were off in hyperdrive trying to make up time on our Brim Trek full power was @ my disposal once again wind had died a bit by now we were running with swell up our arses boat loved that & all was going well till Toovlo struck once again

He'd been using my 1 - 3 kg LOX rod with wun of only 2 CI reels in oz the twit didn't secure it in the rod holder & the outfit went swimming talk about a day of piss offs.

When we got back into Botany bay I couldn't help myself got on the dog & bone & rang the importers of the LOX rods to lodge a formal complaint, told them the rods were no good & they like to jumpus out of boats & worse still the bloody things dont float Paul just laughed @ methought it was funny that I was cranky.

Anyways peeps all was Goodarus now so I thought a mate of mine has been braining the kungs past few weeks & I thought with 11 squiddys in the tank we'll get 11 good live brim baits got to molly point out went the bazooka's [scotty2hottys] 1 hr later nothing.

Back on the dog & bone to my mate 2 pick his brain wanted to know depth he was running his bombs & exactly where he was nailing the kungs 1 hr later still nut ting found masses of slimmys on the sounder & on the surface working that area but to no avail.

Not looking good & figured kungs had moved out of the bay so in came the baits down went the throatle out to shakey figured if they weren't inside they had to be outside 1/2 hr trolling later wasn't looking good there either so did a slow troll back to the bommy thought small brimski's were better than no brimski's.

Your brain goes into dead mode when trolling & nut ting has been there to exite ewe for a few hrs so when we got to the lighthouse just inside the bay & line was screaming off my outfit I just sat there & looked @ it took me 5 seconds or so to coprehend there was a brim bait on the other end

This fush took sum line let me tell ewes I had a pair of the new LOX kungy rods out the back & boy haven't they got sum balls didn't take me long to get that brim bait back to the boat & wot a brim bait it would've made had I landed it.

Had it just out off gaff range when pop went the weasel I hate it when tackle gives way kung went for a final surge & the shock leader gave way just after the knot, knot was still in tact yet another piss off for the day esp when the kung was no rat & a good fush of around 90 - 100 cms.

Well the day had just about gone & we were still fushless time to hit the bommy for sum bait fushing anchored up awkwardly cause wind was from the SW in fact pulled up anchor 3 times till I was happy ended up using the plough anchor onto the sand & Fed back rope till we were where I wanted 2b.

Just on the turn of the tide so it was runing velly slow toovlo was getting sweep I had a bait rod with more lead than the norm to get away from the sweep would've like to have used my LOX spin rod to do sum S but sum twit lost it overboard so opted to use my squid rod.

Virtually getting a snappa evlly cast but just like the other day the plicks were all 28 & 29 cm's to make things worse bastards kept chewing the tails off the plastics went throgh a doz & when I changed over to smaller plastics they wouldn't touch them.

hr later we had good run in the tide away went the lures & I was bait fushing stayed about an hr or so cause didn't want to come back in the dark in case black anchor played up again in that hr or so we did quite well

BLURTERS, BRIMSKI'S & a nice FLATWUN

Wise decision to head in whilst still light cause alarm buzzed again when we reached molly pt & to make things worse so did the surging couldn't be bothered crawling under to get the last of the good batteries esp when we were nearing the 8 knot zone so we crawled in on 2000 revs.

Gonna have a look @ the owners manual 2day cause I'll bet my short & curlies that 5 second siren indicates motor is not charging the batteries

You just wanted an excuse to show off your brothel creepers.

I can't believe you kept going, I would have pulled the pin at the first sign of trouble and towed the whole thing back to the black anchor dealer and gone off my head.
You'd think once the 4 banger was started it would run on it's alternator so long as there was a battery in the circuit, even a pretty flat one.
Teething problems mate, I'm sure it will be brilliant once you get it sorted.

Sounds like you had an adventurous day on the water, I have had my share of those type of days.
With the Black Magic it could be that it needs a computer update, but does sound like it's telling you you are under 10.8 volts or whatever.
I had a similar thing happen to my Etec when it was new, would sound a terrible alarm ( loud as buggery ) and would drop down to 1500 RPM for safety mode. I put it back in the dealers and they put a new computer program in it and haven't had a flicker of trouble since.
Jumpy I'm surprised at you, you stated in your brief report on the LOX rods that they were not all that good for putting in rod holders yet you allow one to jump out of the boat ( hope everyone takes notes of this and be very careful about leaving them in holders ) far too good a rod to be giving them to the fishes.
That Flatone looks nice and It tells me I should be going fishing more so might head on down to bermi next week to see if I remember how to hook a fish.

You should of sent Jimmy in there with a snorkel pal

The good thing about your report is that your out catching fish finally Nice work..

I cant wait to try the jig out now...

They are brilliant, comfy as, had similar b4 but they made your feet sweat & smell these dont cause of the meshing non slip soles as well great @ the boat ramps



I like to nut out my own probs, that's why I haven't had to get towed in for decades not since I owned Envirudes



Yes it will run all day on idle like that, I'll find out more when I take it in but think once throatle goes down more power is required & if alternator is not charging where's that power coming from ?????

So the motor surgess till it's revs drop down wont stall though



Runs like a gem with a full battery the day out with Bees Bum she ran not missing a beat

Speaking of the DUCK FLAKKA he just rang & looks like we're taking out his goat for her 1st run tommorro

unfortunately Mercury aren't well regarded for the electric side of their motors

It's allways an adventure we me Frank


When it happened for the 1st time last trip out I was on the dog & bone to the mech I'd allready checked wot he suggested to me guess I like tinkering around with my motors.

In the end I put the alarm down to the lanoline spray I cover my motors with to better protect them from corrosion & figured the spay may have fouled a sensor.





I have special rod holders up front for such rods but I was not the wun using that rod toovlo was & I blasted the shitta out of him like I'm allways doing for not putting things back where he got them.

That is my pet hate on my goats peeps not returning things to the place they got them from



Fed got sum nice wuns a few weeks back , I actually went to that area last trip & only managed throwbacks, certain times of the year I've noticed they move out into the deeper water depending how I anchor & which way the current is running my baits venture out onto the sand just off the reef & I nail some thumper flatwuns last year got sum ewe beaut flounder as well just off the reef fushing the sand.

Bitch time of the year frank weatherwise I'd love to sneak away for a few trips but nothing worse than spending your trip in a cabin/motel cause ewe cant get out I'd like to do a trip down to JB to sum of my old haunts just have to keep an eye on the weather maps

Yeah well if I did have a snokel on the goat I know where I would've put it & toovlo would've had an extended arsehole guy never listens

that was $400 worth of outfit



They are the goods ewe'll know wot I mean when ewe see how they perforn in the water, put wun out on a 3rd rod just hanging out the back to speed up catching the suid & it accounted for 3 of the squid

The guides on that rod in the DR look like they've been twisted to the right?

It's a 2 piece rod joins @ front hypolon quick twist re aligned them

Did you lower your motor down yet Jumpy, maybe you're sucking aerated water when you go a bit faster in the choppy stuff.
Was that a 5 second beep or a continious beep that stopped after 5 seconds?
Did you find out what it meant yet?

Said I did in the last update that I did

Bees was just G'n up in that reply of his we were on a fresh water river 2day without a breath of wind

Much different to the conditions I've been going out in

My goat would eat his alive if I slamed it into gear full throatle from a stand still start not to mention we were in a pretty empty boat 2day no weight

I thought about this on the way home & curious to see if Bees motor gets full revs when boat has weight in it or whether motor will lose a few 100 revs

Nope been a bit busy so haven't looked @ the owners manual but I'm pretty certain it's cause alternator isn't charging

I saw where you gave it a wedgy but you didn't mention lowering it.
I'm really looking forward to when both boats are run in and running at optimum performance.

So am I only then will ewe get an accurate idea

ps] just got a ling ling from a mate hu was out fushing the Bay 2day

I haven't fushed his spot yet & I know he does well there 2day was no exeption

10 brimski's all over 40 cms
12 Wi Ting all over 1 kg each

He's coming over 2morro with sum pics

Geez that's a damned good result, dying to see the pics so I can look for hints.

I know the spot & was going to fush it the other day

only 1 - 2 meters deep there & ideal spot to throw sum poppers about but I was 1 rod & 1 battery down on the lecky & opted to fush the bommy instead

You're nothing but a BIG TEASE!