New boat for Deckie, making me the new deckie!

Well Peter finally got jack of my boat falling to pieces and bought his own

we are planning some more remote trips with his more reliable and younger boat, motor and everything else
we may take both boats for added safety too - Vernons, Perons and Coburg even!

We popped out in the new boat into local harbour last weekend
Tides looked awesome!
A little windy - too much for my boat but Peter's has higher sides and has a better dead rise
So lucky we had his new boat

We visited all the usual places ( but time constraints didn't see us get as far as Lee Point)
All for just a few Trevally the size of my hand

We put it down to the poor timing of rain the night before - first time in 8 weeks and a fair bit too
Fish were seen in sounder hugging bottom but we couldn't interest them
On Wednesday there were reports of a pleura of baitfish
We hardly saw one on the weekend !

Still good to get out and test Peter's boat
Handled the ugly wave chop the harbour was serving up to us with ease

I only had half a day due to school reports needing to be completed by the next day
So we were back at Dinah Beach ramp just after midday
Peter's wife met us there and we swapped places - and they headed back out into the harbour and I went home to write some reports

So harbour zip, a few weeks before - Bynoe zip too fish wise.

Was this a trend?
Was it due to my pride of fishing prowess (or lack there of as shown in no fish for quite a while now!)

Anyway.......
Always the optimistic....

I am currently planning a trip to Bynoe for this weekend as a bit of business Saturday morning and will spend night at a mate's place on Dundee Beach for Saturday night
A long weekend too but I can only do Sunday fishing for myself
As wife wants a boating trip for the family on Monday and a picnic on a remote beach on the other side of Darwin harbour

Tides don't seem too bad with a 2.5m low at 3pm and a high of 6.9m at 9:10am
Plenty of movement. Hope water as clear as last time
Will head out of Six Pack Arm boat ramp just before dawn -
don't have wind forecast yet so that might change

Let's hope Bynoe has some fish willing to take the fly this weekend !
Trip report to follow..........