Gladstone Blog

Isn’t it amazing what four days of good weather will do to a person’s perspective on life?  Stringing 4 days together is one thing though but having it happen on a weekend is another and to top it off being first quarter with little wee tides many managed to hammer the deeper stuff.  Even though the weather forecast predicted smooth seas and light and variable winds it really wasn’t like that once out wide though.

 

I know that my lad Matty has his work cut out for him a bit on Saturday afternoon, and also on Sunday afternoon returning home, and he wasn’t the only one.

 

In saying that it just goes to show that even though we have the wind direction and speed hourly at Rundle, and Heron there is still quite a distance between and depending on what clouds are around the weather or wind can be all over the place and good seamanship prevails.

 

Looking over the face book pages it’s not hard to see that there were a lot of fish caught over those four days.  On some of the boats there was a lot of counting going on as bag limits were being tested with some species.  From what I could see on Face book was that there were loads of Hussar caught along with good numbers of Sweetlip, and Coral Trout.

 

For those who went and tackled the deep stuff (60m-100m) they were very well rewarded with good Snapper, Red and Pearl Perch.  I also noted that there were a few Cobia getting around.

 

The likes of the world famous in Gladstone Johnny Mitchell esquire had a group out over the weekend, who has an absolute ball, tackling the monster Spanish Mackeral in super dooper clean water!

 

Another weather anomaly occurred over the weekend a few times which I watched drift over the Harbour on Thursday afternoon was a sea fog or mist or whatever you like to call it.

 

This happened two or three times over the weekend and some found themselves driving around in this pea soup and if you were up on cruise speed with, at times, very low visibility, all your senses are wide awake!

 

There are a few events which are coming up which some of you could be interested in one of which has been organised by Eve Malone from the Gladstone fishing Network Face Book Page as they are planning a flotilla or a convoy out to the reef on the 16^th August.

 

Now, if you haven’t been out there, and would like to follow, or join in this group, then check out their page for more details.  They are also organising another excursion to Boynedale up the Boyne valley on the 16^th of October as well so mark that in your calendar, as the last one was a huge success and many people made new friends.

This weekend being Full Moon weekend is not looking too shabby at the time of writing this.  Tomorrow looks as though it’ll be around the 10-15knot easterlies, while Sunday afternoon and Monday look awesome as the wind makes its way around to the north by Monday evening.

 

Inshore things are hotting up as well with excellent Barra on the chew in the Calliope and the mouth of the Boyne has been producing some good Flathead.  The rocky outcrops and structure around the Bound and in Auckland creek has some excellent Bream and for those who love to chase whiting Colosseum Mundoolin and 7 mile have been fishing well.

 

If you are down that way have that mangrove jack lure at the ready when you run out of yabbies as there’s a fair few sitting up in the mangroves at high tide, but you need to be right in their face.

 

 

So this weekend full moon means big tides and as Pat Laws says “no run equals no fun!”

 

Hooroo Dags