tenzing
19-04-2009, 09:20 PM
Couldnt stand to leave the boat in the shed for one more day. Headed out across the bay at gentlemans hours yesterday, dropping a few pots along the way.
Headed to the shipping channel markers and threw a few slugs around. 5 nice schoolies to 65 cm , a couple of bonito, and one of the boys boated a rather large mack tuna - went 5.2 kg on 10lb mono.
Decided to check for bait on one of the beacons further north. Have never seen so much bait! the furuno was red from surface to floor. 50 ft of solid baitfish, so they were dead easy to come by, but couldnt get a taker when we floated them back, nor at the other beacons, so deciced to try a slow drift over a deserted Curtin. All pretty quiet, so just when it was time to leave the baitrunner screams off and this freight train made short work of full drag and 100lb mono leader.
Headed back across a nearly mill pond bay and picked up a nice bucket full of good sized sandies on the way home. they went down nice with cold corona for dinner.
A top day , beautiful weather and an esky full of fish and crab. What happened to the weather predictions?? sorry no pics . battery in camera wouldnt play the game.
Brendan
Headed to the shipping channel markers and threw a few slugs around. 5 nice schoolies to 65 cm , a couple of bonito, and one of the boys boated a rather large mack tuna - went 5.2 kg on 10lb mono.
Decided to check for bait on one of the beacons further north. Have never seen so much bait! the furuno was red from surface to floor. 50 ft of solid baitfish, so they were dead easy to come by, but couldnt get a taker when we floated them back, nor at the other beacons, so deciced to try a slow drift over a deserted Curtin. All pretty quiet, so just when it was time to leave the baitrunner screams off and this freight train made short work of full drag and 100lb mono leader.
Headed back across a nearly mill pond bay and picked up a nice bucket full of good sized sandies on the way home. they went down nice with cold corona for dinner.
A top day , beautiful weather and an esky full of fish and crab. What happened to the weather predictions?? sorry no pics . battery in camera wouldnt play the game.
Brendan