Well we were blessed with top weather for the trip except for the bloody freezing mornings arrived friday arvo booked in & then went over to Arnie's place tried showing him around the computer but it's alot to absorb all in one go.

Took my scanner with me unfortunatly his OS didn't have the drivers required & I didn't have the install disk with me being on dial up didn't bother D/Ling them so missed out on scaning the old pics from his albums oh well next time.

Anyways back to the fushing report .

Day 1

It started off one bright sunny morning in the middle of the night Jumpus, CATCH & Arnie went out to fush.
Plan off attack was to get a Jewgong on SP's & we would've got one if it wasn't for that whinging CATCH22 every time it looked promising the bugger wanted to move spots

If that wasn't bad enough the bugger ate all the food & me & Arnie found it hard to fish on empty stomach's

Seriously though it was more a check out all of Arnie's spots sort of a day more than anything although we did give the jew a good try ended up empty handed but did manage some flatones released most kept these for dinner but ended up having Chi Nee instead



Day 2

Plan was to hit Jervis Bay & fish for some Reds picked up Snapper Man who lives @ Calalla & off we went on our merry way again the day was marred by CATCH22 eating all the food makes it velly hard to catch fish when he does that.

Perfect weather again started off anchoring up @ Long Nose burley trail only suceeded in bringing up rubbish which were making mince meat of our baits then there we were plagued by leather jackets so left CATCH22 baitfishing whilst Snapper Man & Myself started tossed SP's around both methods had same result ZERO success.

I asked Snapper Man to take us to his Squid spots just to break up the day while we waited for the tide change which I hoped would bring a change of fortune so off we went to Bowen Isle to jig up some squid.

Didn't do that crash hot think we only got 2 leather jackets were also there & they took Snapper Man's favourite lure did however see some Bream swiming around was tempted to throw SP's @ them but I honestly enjoy jigging for Squid & carried on doing so.

That session lasted about 1 hr or so & it was time to head back to Long Nose to try for Reds unfortunately same result as the morn session rubbish fish & leather jackets, did put out a live bait for KUNG FU FUSH & it did go offto a garnet saw the bugger crash dive it.

Did however see a huge crash on the surface out in the middle of the heads not sure @ 1st then up it came again I wished that I had brought my new Megapoodle Camera With the Big Telepoopoo lens with me but only had the little camera & didn't bother taking any shots.

The spash's were a pod of whales throwing themselves out of the water 3 @ a time it was quite a spectacle the SLR camera would've taken some very nice pics.

Anyways fishing was non existant so Snapper Man took us to another Suid spot & this time we got in amoungst them @ times we had 1/2 a dozen or so follow the lure up ming you I find it very relaxing & without a breath of wind about the Lecky was on very low speed moving us around but again those bloody leather jackets were about & the squid would spook



Just on a bit of a sour note !
It was the 1st time I'd come across these new new No Fishing Zones up till now haven't fished area's which have them & didn't realise how bad they are,
All I can say is that these BLOODY Greenies are F***en Morons you dont see me swearing very often unless something really gets under my skin.
These zones are pointless dont these morons realise that fish move around & dont live in one area ? I have a bit more sence that alot of people on the water my stupid days are over & I respect the oceon saying that I can see fishermen venturing out to spots their boats shouldn't be @ all because of these No Fishing Zones there's accidents waiting to happen


Day 3

Well plan was to head out the front of Greenwell & fish some of my snapper spots it was just CATCH22 & myself got a early start & wasn't it bloody cold nose was runninglike a tap only been anchored up for about 45 minutes & decided to come back inside to bloody cold mind you by now the Westerly was blowing around 10 knots & the air was very cold



Back inside Greenwell by 9 am we fished one little area till around lunch time when we called it a day time to come home now I will tell you that baits will out fish lures any day of the week & I mean it with the only exception being flathead.

Well CATCH22 dosen't like usike lures & wont listen when I tell him to have a toss so I boasted that I'd outfish him that session as long as he didn't eat all the food again

True to my boast I did just that but have to admit it was neck & neck for a while there till I tried a prawn SP makes a huge difference when you pick the right SP all SP's will work on flathead as they are a very aggresive predator but on certain days a certain lure will stand out same goes with your retrive action.

Well the prawn SP but me that far ahead it wasn't funny we ended up with I'd say 20 + flatones that session kept about 8 off them for CATCH22 it's rare I keep fish but had the biggest laugh watching CATCH22's facial expressions when I started releasing the flathead it was so funny thought he was going to throw me overboard

good report jumpy,

had the smae luck at JB when i was down there and nearly sank!!

Same deal with the leather Jacket, except we couldnt use plastic's cause they were destroyed before they sank,
and alot of the squid were destroyed before we got them to boat.

Actually heard from a boss at work who fishes there that a bloke jumped in the water to have a snorkel while his mates were bait fishing with burley trail, somewhere near honeymoon bay and came up covered in the little bastards!

Kinda feels good though that even Jumpus has a slow day on the water, Seems the Bay can be like that thou, either completly out of control or completly off!

Plenty of days I dont get what I'm after dont you worry about that BUT generally do get something.

Only took the little boat down & I dont like going outside in it had I taken the Biggger Boat it would have been a different story I believe there's alot of good reefs out there & as you can see Reds were about just not inside the bay.

That's a good report Jumpus,
was a little long winded to read straight away(no offence,i like a long report),but i just got around to it.Much better than a few lines like "got these fish'n yesterday" with a few pics thrown in.



SMELLY

Soooounds good Jumpy, nice time had by all. B) B) B)

it is good to see u finely getting out and catching fish. a top read mate tightlinesgoodfishinggottolovethelife

Yeah been a while since I wet a line nearly a month now poly

Probally would've done better back in Botany Bay nothing like fishing one's own backyaed but said I'd go down to sort Arnie's pics out & finally did

But the bugger lied to me said the jewgong were about & I wanted to get one on a SP to see what all the fuss was about.



What can I say Smelly ? Had to warn you guys in case you ever went fishing with CATCH22 the bastard will eat all your food



It's always good to get away & catch up with peeps fish are a bonus

B) It certainly was not for the LACK of TRYING

JUST FOR DA RECORD JUMPY TELLS PORKY PIES HEIS THE ONE THAT EATS ALL DA FOOD AND I CAUGHT ALL DA FISH AND I CAUGHT DA SNAPPER BUT DOES HE PUT MY PICS UP NO HE WANTS ME TO TAKE THE PICS SO HE LOOKS GOOD WELL ..GET ON YA BIKE JUMPY EVERY ONE KNOW S......NOW ......THE TRUTH WHOLE TRUTH BUT NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH ARNIES MY WITNESS............................

yes we saw the witness he was getting a toungy. :whistling:

:o dut couln't see your hands :jawdrop:

Hi Master.

Good story and pix ...just a bit suss about you fishinh for Kung Fush :offtopic: and you forgot your piccy taker :jawdrop: .

Didn't 4get the camera only had the little one with me wont take the Megapoodle camera on the little boat

Only put a livey out for the Kung Fu Fush cause nothing else was happening under the advice of Snapper Man & I reckon he was setting me up !

A Bloody Big Garnet Bird nose dived the livey

Who's gonna believe you CATCH22 ?????????????????????????????



Just for the record I have to admit CATCH22 did contribute

He caught the live bait