Hi all

I was looking at my profile and noticed that I had been a member of this forum for 3 years and never posted anything, mainly because i didn't have anything worth posting about.  I managed a few fish before the ban and thought I would put up the pictures and say a big thanks to the regulars (Ryan & Oceanside Crew, Little Johnny, Little Andy etc) who's posts I have stalked to help me keep going when I thought it just wouldn't happen. 

The first two fish were caught on the same day one went 79cm the other 86cm, we had 7 runs that day but lost 5  fish due to rookie errors (knots, leader too light, drag too tight etc). We used lightly weighted scalies, lots of burley and made sure we were at our spot before the sun came up. My father in law has been coming along as my deckie and he managed to lose all three fish that he had on that morning so he wasn't happy. He hasn't done alot of fishing and he must of thought I was full of it until he saw the first fish come over the side of the boat.

The third fish went 81cm and was caught the following weekend which was a full moon, I think we were lucky to get it because there was nothing happening that morning and my father in law managed to get his first and the only fish/bite of the day (He is still showing the pictures to everyone nearly six weeks later).

The times we fished there was about a 2m swell and bit of chop and the both of us found it hard just to stay on our feet with all the rocking, when I looked at some other boats they seemed fine they could have been playing scrabble and drinking cups of tea. I have 1996 Savage Scorpion 4.85m which has an aluminium hull and a fibreglass cuddy cabin and I wanted to ask how much difference in stability is there when going to a plate aluminium hull or even a fibreglass boat? I have contemplated upgrading to a newer boat similar to the one I already have (pressed aluminium) but for extra stabiliy should I be looking at the other options. 

I know I should probably start a new post for the previous question but it has taken 3 years to get this far.

Thanks

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