Typical Territorians coming down plundering our stocks to fill the freezer......

Hahahahahahahahaha gold right there. I am catching and releasing LoL I won't have a freezer to freeze them before travelling

Well Matt was great. We had a good time out on the water. Got some snapper, flathead, cod and a banjo shark. Fishing was a little slow but weather and company was great.

Were you in WP? i went out sunday in my 4.3 runnabout and got absolutely smashed by the weather, and no fish.

Port Phillip bay from 1030an to 3pm Friday 2nd of December.


Weather was great.

Was wondering how you went saturday. We went out for a couple hours early,but found it slow for just one. Mate next to me ended up getting 10 after we left.

I saw the Genie put up a pic of a 9 way bag out (27 fish) on facebook,saturday,thought you might of been in that one,but that might of been the sunrise charter if you said it was slow...

We were out Friday. Morning
Charter bagged in 40 minutes but had died by the time out lunch charter came round but that's fishing

A mate of mine went out with a charter boat operator on Port Phillip a couple of weeks ago. As they moved to their second spot after 20 mins or so of no fish, one of the two engines died. The skipper tapped on the fuel guage which was indicating that they had 150 litres left but commented on how it was playing up and gave an incorrect reading a week earlier. So he decided to return to base at low speed and refuel. However a few minutes later the second engine died and they were left bobbing up and down in the bay....hmmmm.....the skipper then explains how it costs $450 to fill the tanks to capacity so he just puts in a bit of fuel when he can afford to! Clearly no adherence to the guideline of filling your tanks and using up to 1/3 for the journey out, saving 1/3 for getting back and 1/3 in reserve!

Obviously in need of a tow back to the ramp, they start waving to other boats in the area to no avail. One of the passengers request a flare to be used to attract attention, to which the terse response "I'm not opening up a $300 pack of flares just for this". So the skipper spends 20 mins on the phone ringing up everyone he knows who might be on the bay and who can give them a tow back. Eventually a friend of a friend turns up and a flimsy rope is thrown from the charter boat. This snaps as the rescue boat takes off so the remaing now much shorter rope is thrown over which snaps again. After some scrummaging around another rope is found and luckily this was strong enough to get them back to the ramp. The skipper then announces that he'll just get the boat back on the trailer and refuel and they can go out again, but the cargo decides to cut their losses and stay on dirt.

In fairness the skipper made it up to them on a later date, but that unwillingness to fill the tanks left me gobsmacked.

what company was that.??

thats amazing

Yeah, my mate wasn't very impressed, especially after a 5am start and given he didn't even touch a rod for the trip!

It was a high profile company, but given they did demonstrate fishing (if not boating) expertise I won't run their name through the dirt. Everyone deserves a second chance and the skipper did get them all some fish on his own boat a week after the initial debacle.