I don't post very often but figured why not, with the last couple of weeks catch forming a bit of a trend, it all started off a couple of weeks ago when I ran up the tinny at home after not being able to get out for about 3 months due to work, family commitments or weather just being plain crap!, tinny started just fine, give it a squirt, beautiful!, rice it another?, what nothing!, a bit of investigating and I have done a throttle lever that runs down the tiller arm, get onto google and find a schematic, figure out what parts I need and get them ordered, living up in Port Hedland there is no such thing as express postage even if you pay for it so wait 2 weeks for my parts, I get a notification saying my parts are arriving today!, I eagerly await the parcel driver then get to work as soon as the parts are in my hand, half hour later and in testing it, problem solved, now let's just hope the weather plays ball this weekend, weather forecast isn't the greatest for Saturday so I don't head out, I check it again on Saturday arvo and Sunday will be manageable, I pack the tinny and make sure I'm good to go, Sunday morning comes and I hit the marina with not a hiccup, great start!, first up w want to try for some blue swimmer crabs as there has been a few reports of them out there but not in big numbers, I set my 10 nets then go looking for love baits, about 30 min later I check my nets for the first time, 10 nets resulted in 4 nice bucks, second run after about 15min soak resutled in 3 more, 7 is enough for me so I retrieve my nets for a further 5 bringing my total to 12 ( plus a flattie tangled in the drop net), now time to get some fish, first stop a spot that I catch a fair few coral trout but this time I don't have the live baits that I like fishing there, so strip bait it is, first couple of drifts resulted in a tawny nurse shark and a few other small bits and pieces, time to anchor up with bluebone on my mind, first bait down and within 5 min I'm hooked up, up comes a 56 cm bluebone!, now not the biggest by any means but as I don't usually target them I am stoked!, a couple of more hours with nothing to show I return home with my catch

Fast forward to this week end, headed out Saturday morning with the intention of repeating last weekends catch, launch the tinny, net a few dozen northern herring and have them swimming happily in the live baits tank, head out the marina heading to my crabbing area then all of a sudden revs are increasing but my speed isn't, feels like a slipping clutch, I back the revs down and realise I still have propulsion, so head back to the marina, luckily I was less than a km away, slowly put in just above idle, once in the marina with live baits tank I figured I will check out the marina and see if I can at least catch something, 2 hours of mucking around on small trevally and queen fish I end up with 2 nice blue nose salmon!, time to head home and investigate, wash the boat and fillet the fish, time to have a look at the boat, removing the prop has confirmed my suspicions, spun hub!, there goes my boating over Easter, glad it wasn't anything major, new prop ordered, let's see how long this takes to arrive

sorry for the long winded story, hope you enjoy

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