Sunday 8 Nov: abalone, squid, fisheries and a few familiar faces
Not necessarily in that order, but first off I noticed Paul G on the freeway on my way past in the scooter. Don't think that one was a fishing trip, looked like work!
Made it down to Woodman Pt and caught my brother and Sayano, launched and motored quickly over to Carnac, despite the blustery conditions. Slipped in and bagged 38 Abalone, Cam found a big occy but the ab size was pretty ordinary out there. Got out of out dive suits and tried for some squid, but it was very very slow and headed back in.
Must say I'm pretty underwhelmed by breeden jigs, the hooks pulled out of mine in only the second outing.
Retrieved the boat and got carded by fisheries, they just wanted to check our licenses and skippers ticket, that all checked out and while we were getting the boat ready to drive back home, I noticed a Fury towed by a Jeep and sure enough it was Bodie. Good to meet another FWer in the flesh!
Sorry no snaps, my brother has the haul as he had to come back via Freo, I just came straight back up the freeway =)
Paul G
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Seen you coming but didn't
Seen you coming but didn't know it was you until you looked in through the passangers window,you seemed to be in a rush ,that little bike sure does move .nice when the freeway is all yours not to many cars around this morning
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till
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You can't get it past
You can't get it past 130km/h, even with the wind behind you!
Alan James
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Nor should you try
In light of comments on another forum topic if you "knowingly" attempted to exceed the legal speed limit perhaps the bike should be confiscated.
till
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Ahh no risk of that here.
Ahh no risk of that here. Paul only thought I was going fast because he was towing, I was just doing the speed limit and it seems really fast when you're in a scooter =)
Paul G
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Thats fast enough on one of
Thats fast enough on one of them things you looked to be having fun,the thought of missing out on those abbs ,sounds like a good day beats working .so tired,need to sleepppppppppppp zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Bodie
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Yep was good to meet another
Yep was good to meet another FW member, till.
Was a bit slow for us too. Did manage to get our Abs easily tho, and good size this time, with most around 90mm.
Tried for some crabs out from coogee but only managed to spot 1 undersize bluey, and about 4 or 5 females.
Managed 1 squid and about 8 herring.
Did try for some Tailor around some breaking reefs but no luck.
Did see a heap of fish while getting abs, we were on ledges probably 5-6m drops. Saw some schooling sambos of about 8-10kgs, Skippy, 2 big KG's herring, and did manage to spot a few crays on the bottom too.
Was pretty good cruising about, think we got out doing about 28knots no dramas, and back doing 30.
We had a ball, so many things to do other than chasing demersals!
till
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Actually you just reminded
Actually you just reminded me, the other thing we had happen a bunch of times was big snook banging the squid jigs. I tried a few divers, but I couldn;t get them to hit them.
Bodie
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plastics are the trick mate
plastics are the trick mate :)
till
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Thanks for the tip, I'll
Thanks for the tip, I'll take a few to break up the time squidding!
81macca
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scooters
Scooters are like fat chicks they're fun to ride but you don't tell ya mates ya ride one!
I actually fish.
Alan James
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And
Fat chicks have the same opinion of d...heads!
till
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Ahh its a Vespa Gran Turismo
Ahh its a Vespa Gran Turismo 200c, its worth any amount of shit I get for riding it.
I can carry my fishing gear and rods on it if I'm just meeting someone at the ramp or off to have a crack landbased.
It is immune to traffic jams.
I can drive it Joondalup to Perth and back 8 times on a tank, (under 10l).