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We are a small family fishing operation that is based out of Manly in southern Moreton Bay area.
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We supply fresh locally wild caught seafood that’s made in Australia by Mother Nature direct from the boat to you.

21/08/2026

Hi everyone, hope you all had a great week.

I’ve been offline the last couple of weeks after another phone packed it in!

I’ve had a few people contact me about seafood availability.

Unfortunately it’s that time of year when there’s not much around in the Bay with the colder water temperatures and with the escalating fuel prices I thought it best to tie the boat up for a couple of months until the water warms up, prawns start showing up and hopefully fuel prices return to saner levels.
Apologies for any inconvenience.

I’d just like to thank everyone for your continued support of my little business, it really does mean a hell of a lot to me especially after the year I’ve had.

Been a hell of a year, from burned out batteries and electrics in January then a blown turbo in February to the heart attack in March and the fun recovery that it’s been since.
Still can’t thank everyone who donated and helped keep the business alive enough.
You’re all awesome people.
Sorry I haven’t been able to repay the faith just yet but I’ll be back to make that up to all of you this next season.

At this stage I plan to be back early November all going to plan.
So keep an eye out for that.

In the meantime I’m operating Lotza Yard Clearing and Maintenance.
Currently clearing and prettying up a long time customers yard that had gotten away a little bit.
All going well it’ll come up a treat and be a little less maintenance intensive in the future.
Some before and after clearing pics below with more to come when it’s finished.
So stay tuned.

If you’d like some yard maintenance done sometime over the next couple of months at a reasonable price feel free to get in touch via messenger.
I am a little bit limited in equipment but where there’s a will there’s a way!

In addition to that I’m helping a mate with his business keeping old Chrysler Valiants on the road.

And I’ve also got a bit of maintenance to catch up with on the Sea Jay starting with the winches.

Hope that clears it up.
Take care, stay safe and hope you all have a great weekend everyone.
Cheers

30/07/2026

UPDATE- Everything has now been ordered and I’m sold out and ready for bed after all that. Thank you

Hi everyone, hope you’re all having a great week so far.

I’ve finally been able to get back out fishing this week.

Weather was great but the fishing not so much.

Please read carefully before making an order.

I’ll be taking orders via Facebook messenger only this week.

Please don’t text my phone number as I’m having problems with Aldi mobile and I can’t text back a response.

Please let me know what you would like to order from the list below, if you have a backup option please let me know as it will speed things up.

Pick up is on the William Gunn jetty in front of the Morton Bay Discovery Center.

And please let me know if you’d like to pickup Friday afternoon between 3-5pm or Saturday morning between 8-10am.

As always sales are cash only and change is always appreciated.

And I’m keeping my current prices so everyone has a fair chance!

If we all keep chasing the dollar we’ll all end up broke!

This week I have available.

Large cooked Tigers $35kg

Med cooked Tigers $30kg

Small cooked Tigers $25kg

Headless grn prawn $35kg

Moreton Bay bugs cooked
Lrg-$10ea, Med-$7ea, Sml-$5ea

Whole cuttlefish $15kg

Mixed squid $15kg

Limited stock unfortunately and with the winter offseason setting in and rising fuel prices it looks like this will be my last week of fishing until Moreton Bay starts to warm up a bit later around November.

I’ll be looking for a bit of work during the next couple of months anything, I’m highly motivated and I’m still fairly handy and happy to try new things so if you have any work or know of anything please let me know.

Hopefully things have settled down a bit by November with the fuel prices because it was ridiculous how quickly they rose when things started blowing up before any expensive barrel had even left the Gulf!
Some never waste an opportunity I guess!

Anyway, take care and stay safe and hope you have a great weekend everyone.
Cheers

And thank you to a long time customer Sandy for the photo.

24/07/2026

Hi everyone, hope you had a great week!

Mines been eventful to say the least!

We’ve had rainbows, fires, remarking wires and some health problems to top it off!

Before you read any further I unfortunately didn’t make it out this week!

So somewhat frustratingly I don’t have any seafood to sell this week, again!

Wasn’t from a lack of trying to get out I can assure you!

Went chasing rainbows last Friday, didn’t find any pot of gold but got a great shot of the whole thing with both ends!

Pulled all the wire off my winch drums to remark the whole lot, forgot how much fun that was.

And put out a boat fire!

Some of you probably already know from my post on Wynnum What that we had a boat fire on a neighbor’s boat in the marina last Saturday night!

Thankfully a member of the public on shore used a torch to get my attention, I’d love to find out who it was because I can’t thank them enough!

So I got hold of emergency services and then went on to fight the fire myself!

For the record it was electrical failure and not deliberately lit!

I’ve copped a bit of flack from a few ignorant people over my actions so I’ll clarify a few things!

Now before anyone gets on a soap box and starts lecturing me about the dangers, understand that I’m not a clueless idiot and I’ve actually had firefighting training in the past, might have been 18 years ago but once I grabbed that hose it came back to me like I’d done it the day before!

Yes, what I did was dangerous!
Yes, it could’ve ended very badly especially for me!
But if I did nothing it was guaranteed to turn into a disaster.

There’s 3 types of people in this world.
Those who make things happen!
Those who watch things happen!
And those who wonder what the p***k just happened!

I’m not the latter two and I make no apologies for that!

All those that mattered were happy with the way I went about tackling the fire!
The biggest problem I faced was trying to locate and disconnect the electrical source of the fire.

4 times I went into the cabin to locate the isolation switches or batteries and 3 times I had to jump back out to refight the fire as the source kept reigniting it!

Finally found the switches on the 4th go just before the firefighters arrived.

Being that it was a fiberglass boat the fire had to be fought as fast as possible or the boat beside it would’ve gone up and the one on the other side in the direction the embers were blowing!
If I’d waited for the firefighters we would’ve had 2-3 boats ablaze and a serious pollution problem now, so it had to be done.
So that’s why I went in!

Unfortunately I copped a fair bit of smoke inhalation, more than I first thought.

So when I started getting the boat ready this week it really started to affect me to the point where I had to stop or I’d be taking another trip to the hospital or worse!

Now I don’t want anymore crap about me being a hero or a legend or anything like that!
I’m just a bloke who saw a serious problem developing and chose to act on it.
Nothing more, nothing less!

I didn’t save anyone’s life!
Those that do, they’re the real hero’s and legends!

All I did was what I would hope someone would do for me if my boat was on fire and I’m not around to fight it!
That’s it!

So I’m sorry I don’t have Seafood for you all this week but there’s a good reason for it!

I’ll get myself sorted out and have a crack at it next week when I’m feeling a better.

Take care, stay safe and enjoy your Friday everyone.
Hope you all have great weekend.
Cheers

14/07/2026

Hi everyone, hope you’re all having a great week so far.

Unfortunately I’ve done myself a mischief while doing some maintenance and put my left arm out of action.
So now I’m out of action for the rest of the week sadly as I need to try and keep it elevated around shoulder high and somehow try not to use it!

Sadly that means I won’t have any seafood available again this week.
I do apologize for any inconvenience this has caused, it’s certainly the last thing I needed at the moment.

All going well I’ll be back out next week if I can get this sorted in time.

Take care, stay safe and enjoy the rest of your week and weekend everyone.
Cheers

10/07/2026

Hi everyone, hope you’re all having a great week.

Sorry for the late post, had a few technical problems this week.

Unfortunately I haven’t been able to get any fishing in due to the ordinary weather.
So no seafood sales this Saturday.

Next week the weather is looking better so keep an eye out for my post towards the end of the week.

Here’s a couple of pictures of a prawn and Moreton Bay bug satay that I knocked up using already cooked seafood.

If you’d like to know more I’ll have another go at doing a video on how I go about making it.

I did have a video of me doing it but I stuffed it up and the video didn’t come out right.
So I’m happy to have another go next time I take prawns and bugs home if you’re all interested.

Take care, stay safe and have a great weekend everyone. Cheers

04/07/2026

Woohoo!!! I’ve now sold out for this week!

Thank you to everyone who came down to support my little business today, I really do appreciate it.

Got a video coming out in a couple of days so keep an eye out for it.

Take care, stay safe.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend and hope you all have a great week.
Cheers

03/07/2026

UPDATE- Now sold out for this week, thank you everyone.

Good morning everyone, just letting you know that I’m still down here at the William Gunn jetty until 11am or sold out.

I’ve only got cooked Moreton Bay bugs and some cuttlefish left available.

From left to right

Small bugs $5 each (approx 40 still available)

Medium bugs $ Sold out

Large bugs $ Sold out

They’re cooked and ready to eat.

Seafood isn’t just a summer time meal, it’s perfect for all year round.

Please remember that in order for me to still be here operating at summer time.
I need your support all year round, otherwise I can’t pay bills and keep the business going.

So your continued support isn’t just appreciated it’s essential to the survival of my little business because the bills never stop rolling in.

The support I received from many of you these last 3 months kept my business alive so I could come back and do this but it’ll be for nothing if I can’t sell everything I catch during the lean months of the year.

Just something to think about.

Have a great day everyone.

30/06/2026

Update- having a bit better week, what I have available so far is updated!

Hi everyone, hope you all had a great weekend.

Just getting a post up early in case I have anymore phone issues this week.

Sales will be back to the usual Saturday, 4th July at the William Gunn jetty from 7am until 10am or sold out.
Just line up sales, no orders.

As always sales are CASH ONLY and change is very much appreciated as I’m still low having to bank most of what I made for fuel and bills.

Don’t forget your bucket or esky.

I have available

Cooked Large and Medium Tiger prawns

Cooked Small/Medium mixed prawns

Headless green Tiger prawns

Cooked Large, Medium and Small Moreton Bay bugs.

Plus some Squid and Cuttlefish

Take care, stay safe and enjoy the rest of your week everyone.
Cheers

28/06/2026

Hi everyone, something I thought you might find interesting!

You’ve probably noticed at some point that I have these big steal frames with bars sewn into my nets!

They’re known as a Turtle Excluder Device (TED) for short.

They prevent anything larger than the width of the bars from going down into the bag area of the net and getting caught.

Instead, the animal gets to the bars and then slides out the flaps that can be at the top or bottom of the net.

This is a video showing one of these TEDs in action.

We’ve been using these as well Bycatch Reduction Devices (BRD) in the Qld trawl fisheries for well over 20 years now and have developed them to be very effective during that time and still continue to!

It’s pretty cool when you get to see how these things work and knowing that it’s making a difference!

Australian commercial fishers are some of the most proactive in the world when it comes to improving sustainable fishing practices and technology!

Tap on link to see the video

See you all next week. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CZYpsfidZ/?mibextid=wwXIfr

27/06/2026

Hi everyone, that’s it for this week, I’ve now sold out!

Thank you to everyone for turning up, apologies if you missed out on what you were after.
I’ll hopefully have more available later this week.

Take care and have a great weekend everyone.
Cheers

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