Thank you. Like yourself, I hadn't heard of squid jigs until recent years. Prior to that I used a more brute force approach :-) I really enjoy chasing them on jigs now though, wish I had started earlier.

Thank you. Glad you liked it and got something out of it. As you say, too many videos of people just catching fish.

Thank you. Fishing with your kids makes a lot of great memories. One good thing about your young fella not liking to eat fish, leaves more for you. :-)

@@weFishAU100% !

Awesome, thank you. It's been a LOT of years since I crabbed the north side of the bay. We did get a good feed of crabs dropping pots in Pumistone passage back in the early 90's. Used to stay at the Toorbul caravan park and drop the pots mostly south from the ramp if I remember correctly. Also in Elimbah creek I think. Watch out for the green zone north of there. I know there are sandies out from the sandhills on Moreton Island. And I have seen pots dropped near Crab Island in Days Gutter. I have mentioned some crabbing spots in the Moreton Bay playlist. The only one I remember is about 3 1/2 minutes into this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f8x8qcWSmLCpY6s.html Not sure if there are any others. My best tip is to keep an eye out for where others are crabbing reguarly and drop your somewhere in that area, not too close to theirs. The trick is to find the depth they are at and then put all your pots at a similar depth in that area. Hope you get a good feed.

No, the hooks on that rig are size 6. I usually use size 6, 8 or 10. 12 occasionally. I feel that 8 is a good all round compromise, but sometimes I can pick up rigs with the other sizes a lot cheaper.

Thank you, glad you like them.

Thank you. I'm glad they aren't available on eBay any more. The one featured in that video was sold as stainless steel but it was not. Rusted out same as the first one. Check out this video to see how I eventually solved the problem: kzfaq.info7vUhduE18Ak

Thanks, will do!

I didnt have too much of a problem with that. It just didn't suit my jigging style like the Penn rod, I catch a lot more fish with the Penn.

Thank you. Yes I did. There is so much stikaflex on the installation that I expect I will have to break the pipe to get it off so I have been putting it off. I will have to attend to it before too much longer.

@@weFishAU Not urgent I reckon but it could let you down when you least expect it, unlikely to sink the boat though. I think it is a testament to your photography that I actually saw it.

@@constable49 True, it is always in the back of my mind.

Thank you.

I have used a sounder since the late 60'2 when my father bought a Furuno sounder that recorded the fish on a paper roll. We still used marks back then, and again when I fished from the tender when I had the big boat and no sounder on the tender, so I have experience of doing it both ways. I would hate to go back to doing it without a sounder now.

Thank you.

It's not always easy, but having the right bait and finding the fish on the sounder helps a lot :-)

I have been hooked a couple of times so I always want an even number of hooks on my sabiki so I can link them together, out of the way. Yes, it has been cracked for a little while. The stikaflex is holding it securely. I need to break the whole thing out to fix it, so I have put it off for the last couple of months.>ven if the nut does break I think the stikaflex will hold it.

There seem to be more grinners around now than I ever remember encountering.

@weFishAU I've only started fishing the bay this year, sure are alot of grinners out there.

My father started taking me fishing before I started school, so I have been fishing the bay and offshore for about 60 years now,. Sharks are worse now as well.

@weFishAU that's why I've been watching. I don't know my way around yet but you do. Cheers for the vids

Normalising the audio makes it sound worse than it is. That said, you should have heard it before I lost weight. :-)

Thank you for watching.

Hardly, but thank you. :-)

Frozen red worms from Mr Bait.

Thanks

Thank you. I was suprised I couldn't find at least a couple of Mackerel, by all reports there were a lot of them in the areas I trolled the week before. It shows what a difference a week can make. On the plus side, my wife wants me to catch more whiting now. :-)

Thanks. It was a good feed.

Thanks, t'was a nice feed.

It could have more than one name. An old professional fisherman taught it to me when I was just a kid, I only discovered that it had any name about a year ago.

You're welcome. Glad you got a good feed. Grinners are magic crab bait, never would have known if I hadn't been short of bait one day.

Thank you. You're welcome.

We have six children and 18 grandchildren. None go to waste. Jealousy is a curse.

@@weFishAU six kids and 18 grand children im sorry to hear that Paul. You've picked the wrong person to use the jealousy line. I catch what I need and keep it sustainable, no greed.

I'm sorry you don't have a large family, it is a blessing. 20 per person is sustainable, read the rules.

Bag limits are in place for a reason. Don't bag someone for sticking to the rules Karen.

@@smithys3512-lg5yx Just because it's legal doesn't make it right. Clearly the point has gone straight over your head. Reread my comments 🤪

I like to fish around south west rocks but I mainly get Snapper/Squire there and it is closed season for them until 16th August. Years ago I caught flathead and grassys around Hole In The Wall / Platapus but I haven't fished that end of the island recently. You can also get squid a bit to the east of the Platapus jetty. Shallow there so don't let your jig go too deep or you will lose it. I also occasionally fish around Hanlon light and in toward the Red buoy in the Lazerette, but again, you will get Snapper/Squire as well as Mackerel and a few other species. Have a look in the video from 14:50 to 16:16 and you will see the knot of lines where I was drifting off Wellington Point, a bit south of the ramp. Look around 7m to 8 m anywhere from the red off Empire Point up to Huybers Light. Standard squid jig with a #4 ball sinker on top. Good luck.

Thank you, I will. I got bitten off so much on that trip that, if I had any wire on board, I would have tried it. I think there were quite a few sharks around but I also think some of the ones I lost were tailor.

Thank you. The Humminbird is linked to the Minn Kota. Also. it gives a very clear picture of structure on the bottom.

Heaps of crabs around at the moment, very tasty.

Thank you, you're welocme, glad it helped. I went into Horseshoe to anchor up about 8:30 last night, saw you anchored up out there. I was pretty tired after 14 hours on the water so I went into 2m of water so I had a nice calm sleep. I was fishing West Peel from the afternoon into the night, got smoked so many times and bitten off by big tailor, one decent one right at the net.

Lots of places. I can usually find some near where I fish. Curtin, Harries and West Peel around the artificial reef structure. Naval banks if you are fishing north of Peel. Rous Knob if you are fishing near there. The channel beacons if you are fishing further north. Not necessarily yakkas, could be herring or slimies but all good bait.

Thank you. I only needed to get them snagged on something a couple of times to figure out a better way. I have got one of those hollow rods, I found that a lot of sabiki rigs were too long to store properly and due to the stiffness I didn't catch as much bait as I do with my Penn Battle II rod. I had both new rods out that day. I think the one I built was the one that caught the snapper. Silver overhead on that one.

Thank you. You are very welcome.

I have never fished out deep of Mud island although several people have told me that is where the big ones are. I must try it some time.

Gotta love the history around our bay. :-)

I couldn't get the web site to work either but the email link is working.

I've had quite a few people tell me they have caught fish on them and I don't doubt they have. Personally I have never had a bite on them whereas the rod next to it with a different bait has caught fish.

Thank you. Difficult to justify a crab cooker for the number I catch for my wife and I. I don't like them once they have been frozen so the aim is to catch what we can eat immediately and if I get too many we usually give some away. Perhaps a crab cooker would make a difference but the way I do it I have found that bringing it back to the boil has worked for me for nearly 60 years. It is a case of don't change what works.

@@weFishAU if it works. Then it works.

@billmarsh7104 That's a good idea as well. I just keep my ropes separate because I use the same rope between all my different pots.

@@weFishAU I just have a rope on each one

It's amazing how much difference they make to some boats.

The old suicide pots have been illegal for quite a while. They say they caught too much by catch. I don't remember there being all that much, although back in those days we checked them reguarly. Between Victoria Point and Coochie used to be a good spot, set the pots and drift the banks fishing between checks.

@@weFishAU I don't recall getting any by-catch. That used to be a good area. I guess it's probably not as good these days as there are a lot more people living around there compared to back in the day.

@garysheppard4028 around Cleveland still produces so I can't see why Victoria Pt wouldn't as well.

@@weFishAU Oh right. Thanks.

You're welcome!

You're welcome.

The history around it is facinating. The old lighthouse near there fell into the sea ages ago. The old pilot station might be still there.

Thank you. They are a game changer in a lot of fishing situations.

If you read the video description you would know that they fed 20 people. Less than 3 crabs each. Hardly a feast.

@@weFishAU 20 people of course 🤔

@@weFishAU "Hardly a feast" 🙄Obviously you need to teach the 20 people how to remove the meat.

??? Less than 3 crabs each is a meal, not a feast.