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Just a weeeee bit of current today off Point Lookout!!!!!!

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Aaron Concord:
Hi All,

'Twas a GT fishing in mind with the Man Mountain today (AKA Gordon Low).
Point Lookout was the target.
Got out no probs and found the current had swept in at a caaaarazy rate!
We tried, in amongst some hairy looking squalls, to punch poppers into the fray but alas, the current made the 'Group" off Point Lookout more like Shoalwater Bay or Spit Bombie....it was nuts trying to fish there in a 4.8m Galeforce!!!!
We tried a few hidey holes though the short, violent chop prevented any real attempt. It took 3000RPM just to stay stationary in a few spots....

Thought I'd just mentioned that the current was there & I can only surmise what the reefs of Moreton Island or Tweed Heads must of looked like today.

We need a bigger boat...

On a cautionary note, the steepness of the cracking chop plus the vaccum of being pulled into breaking surf is a real threat in all great GT locations......ya don't need a ton of water dumping into an open boat at all.

Aaron.

Chris Young:
Aaron ...I know the places you speak of well, I would not like to be casting from the front of the Gailey, you guys need a lean post before someone goes swimming. :o
Gordon and I have been there a few times in my boat when the current is running and it is no place for the faint hearted thats for sure.
Interesting that we have a few more days before the bigger tides, makes me wonder how much those Northerlies are pushing the currents, better still what is coming south with them ;)

Brock Arifovic:
Aaron,

You could have at;east taken a photo for us to have a look at, pictures speak louder than words  :D :D :D :D :D :D

Hope you guys had fun on your day off. Did you manage to get hold of anything while you were out?

Aaron Concord:
Chris,

If the boat could have a front & rear one fitted it would make this kind of fishing safer.
Having said that, the pressure waves were capping and cracking against the boat in over 100 feet of water, let alone in closer to the GT cover!
Freeboard was a real issue!
I haven't seen so much water pour through there...ever!
Colour was awesome and the temp was above 23 degrees.
All the usual suspects like 'hoo, GT's & billfish would be around if we could have fished it properly. Instead it was a chooona on fly arvo instead.

Brock,
With all the constant rain, I wasn't going to 'test' the weather seals on the D300 for anyone! It IS a shame, since it really did look crazy AKA Spit Bombie or Shoalwater on the ebb tide......as the tides build so will those pressure waves!
The Choona were big macks mixed with longtails...I got 2 big macks arond 6-7kg on fly....no longies were fooled >:(

Aaron.

Greg Burt:
Heading East off Mooloolaba tomorrow for a jig if the swell is still NE, if not down to the Cape for a Pop and SP's. The current is usually about 1/3 of what you guy's get to the Sth of us, last year I was out your way with Bill, Duncan and Matt and was blown away by the 'river' running around a FAD :o

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