Off Bundy

[Giffo]

On Saturday morning we headed out from Burnett Heads ramp at 6am for the 15 mile gutters, the weather gods had shone on us and agreed with the forecasters for a change. The wind was hardly measurable at the ramp and the river mouth was glass. There was a thick fog as we drove into Burnett Heads , but cleared as we left the ramp. Once out of the mouth of the river, the small wind swells were easy to roll over, about 8 mile out a light North/East breeze had sprung up. Once we were at the spot, or there about, we put out a few diving lures and trolled for a few Ks to look at the bottom structure on the sounder. The water was clear and the weather was perfect, when the silence was broken (as I have a 4 stroke 2thumbsup) my mates overhead started to scream and line was being peeled off at a great rate. Before I could pull in all the other lines to chase the fish with the boat, it had busted him off, as he wound up the drag to try to slow itdoh. Big Spaniard or Bill fish , who knows?.
We found some good ground and started to bottom bash on the drift. The first fish in the boat was a Red Emperor, but just under size, followed by Trigger fish and bloody Grinners. We motored back to the start of the drift a couple of times and ended up with 5 Parrot. A mates son also got 2 Remora, which were called for small Cobia at the start, the Remora stick really well to the smooth poly internal walls. At 1pmThe fog had started to drift out to us, we were 16nm (29 klm) out to sea and could only see about 20 metres in any direction, it was eerie. The trip home was slow and cold, as the fog was giving us bugger all visibility (like Pea Soup) and the moisture wetting our shirts.The weather looks good for this coming weekend, and I will have a new/secondhand colour Navman sounder and separate Navman colour Chartplotter to play with.Fingers crossed!.

[chin]

Had a similar experience earlier in the year Giffo, went out a long way in thick fog and got saturated by the fog. Pretty scary too when anchored coal ships leap out in front of you at the last second. shock

[Pirate Pete]

Looks like a good day out.

I havent been caught in the boat with fog but have been cross country skiing & the only way I knew if I was going the right way was because I was in a valley & had to head down hill. I cant remember how many times I stopped & had to turn around until the skis started to slide again.

[Doug]

How do you guide a firie home?

You put an anchovie on the pier-head.

Works eight times outta ten. Who cares about the other two?

[McGyver]

giffo i was up your way on the weekend too (well atleast that far north), and i dont think i have ever seen fog that thick.
We left Urangan at around half past 5 saturday morning headed for sandy shoals overnight. It was just one of those trips blew a tyre at gympie, and when we were about the latitude of wathumba we had outboard issues, we limped to roonies at 10km an hour so 3 hours later we pulled up on the beach. No wind, no clouds, no swell no f@$%!ng chance of crossing break sea spit with the dodgy outboard i was ready to flip out.

[Giffo]

You know what else smells like Anchovies Doug ? they work ten times out of ten laugh1 Pity about the trip McGyver,some trips are just not meant to happen,you should have thrown out a few lures !

[McGyver]

yea we were had some big rapala's out the back, and your right its one of those trips that really makes me appreciate the good ones.

[Will]

Ha-ha, love those Remoras. I normally just leave then until they drop off before throwing them back. Good fun for the kids though.

We used to get pretty thick fog in Northwest WA. Makes for an interesting trip crossing the shipping channel :)