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I know this is not exactly a Suzuki parts/problems issue, but thought I might lighten up the forum with a fishing report, from my mate's 2310 Striper powered by 2009 DF300 Suzuki. I regularly crew for him on this boat when we fish wide offshore. Closer in, we use my 5.5m Surtees with DF115.
Needless to say the big Suzuki performed flawlessly for the week we were away. By the way, I set up the NMEA2000 network on this boat and the twin SMIS gauges, they were amongst the first in Australia and the 300 was the first FBW version installed on a boat in Queensland.
Anyway, here's the report.
Took the Striper 2301 out from central Queensland, Australia. Our base was the only town in the world with a number for its name: 1770. Capt James Cook stopped here to get fresh water and food on his journey to discover Australia's east coast, in, you guessed it, the year 1770.
The reef is about 35nm off the coast, and Fitzroy reef is a typical coral reef, and like a few coral reefs, it has a lagoon inside a surrounding reef that breaks at all tides and is exposed at low tide. A narrow channel was blasted thru many years ago to allow access for trailer boats, charter boats and medium sized motor and sail yachts.
Inside (west) of the reef, the water is around 45-50m deep with scattererd reef, rubble and coral bommies that sometimes rise to within 7-10 meters of the surface.
Outside (eastwards) it drops off steadily to about 60m deep, then suddenly you go off the edge of the continental shelf into really deep water, several hundred meters deep, in just a mile or two.
We fished inside the reef and areas east out to about 110 m (330ft approx). We found a nice ledge that has a sheer drop from 92m to 110m, and typically, the fish school up just above the ledge. It is sometimes very hard to stop big reds tearing off and over this ledge, busting you off on the coral as it goes. We usually fish 50-80lb braid with 60-100lb flouricarbon leaders on dropper rigs. Slab of mullet or half of a hussar for bait on a 8/0 octopus hook. A big squid head the sizes of a fist is also a good Red bait!
Caught coral trout, Spanish mackerel, many mixed reef fish and varieties of cod and tropical snappers, but the prized target here are Red Emperor. This trip, we got out 4 days of the 6 we had available to fish and caught 4 Reds up to 8kg or so. We were there with 16 other boats from our fishing Club, Power Boat Anglers Fishing Club, based in Brisbane.
Anyways, here are a few pictures of our catch and the 2301.
Needless to say the big Suzuki performed flawlessly for the week we were away. By the way, I set up the NMEA2000 network on this boat and the twin SMIS gauges, they were amongst the first in Australia and the 300 was the first FBW version installed on a boat in Queensland.
Anyway, here's the report.
Took the Striper 2301 out from central Queensland, Australia. Our base was the only town in the world with a number for its name: 1770. Capt James Cook stopped here to get fresh water and food on his journey to discover Australia's east coast, in, you guessed it, the year 1770.
The reef is about 35nm off the coast, and Fitzroy reef is a typical coral reef, and like a few coral reefs, it has a lagoon inside a surrounding reef that breaks at all tides and is exposed at low tide. A narrow channel was blasted thru many years ago to allow access for trailer boats, charter boats and medium sized motor and sail yachts.
Inside (west) of the reef, the water is around 45-50m deep with scattererd reef, rubble and coral bommies that sometimes rise to within 7-10 meters of the surface.
Outside (eastwards) it drops off steadily to about 60m deep, then suddenly you go off the edge of the continental shelf into really deep water, several hundred meters deep, in just a mile or two.
We fished inside the reef and areas east out to about 110 m (330ft approx). We found a nice ledge that has a sheer drop from 92m to 110m, and typically, the fish school up just above the ledge. It is sometimes very hard to stop big reds tearing off and over this ledge, busting you off on the coral as it goes. We usually fish 50-80lb braid with 60-100lb flouricarbon leaders on dropper rigs. Slab of mullet or half of a hussar for bait on a 8/0 octopus hook. A big squid head the sizes of a fist is also a good Red bait!
Caught coral trout, Spanish mackerel, many mixed reef fish and varieties of cod and tropical snappers, but the prized target here are Red Emperor. This trip, we got out 4 days of the 6 we had available to fish and caught 4 Reds up to 8kg or so. We were there with 16 other boats from our fishing Club, Power Boat Anglers Fishing Club, based in Brisbane.
Anyways, here are a few pictures of our catch and the 2301.
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