flickflack
10-07-2006, 03:25 PM
HI ALL
The last Monday session with bait was pretty good fun(dont tell anyone I said that ;)) So Big Kev and me deciced to give this float lining a go and see if we could get into a few snapper. So we loaded a few pillies and hit the Tweed bar before daybreak this morning. We mooched around a bit in the dark looking for some likely looking ground and eventually anchored up . After started a bit of a burley trail kev hooked into a small squire first drop and I quickly got my two rods into action. I had one rigged with no weight and one with a small weight . I flicked the floater out the back and left it to slowly sink down as there wasnt much run at all. I took the heavier rod (with 20lbMono) and drifted a whole pillie back into the burley I felt a good hit and it started pulling line. Everything came up tide and the fish took off easily pulling drag. The floater started to scream off as well and I turned to see Kev bent into a fish as well. Complete chaos for a few minutes with the fish on the floater coming off and Kev landing a good size Squire. I was still tight on my fish and was calling it for a good Jew with all the headshakes. It popped up next to the boat as the sun was risng with beautiful silver flanks. We put it into the boat and shot the lines out agin. Kev jagged a yakka which was instantly turned into a LIVIE which was instantly turned into a screaming reel. We thought we had Jew number 2 but it popped up next to boat glowing Bright Yellow. Its the first time I have ever been dissapointed to see a 14kg King boatside. A few bonnies and small Squire later we pulled the pick to round up some more livies. After we had a few in the hatch I lobbed out one behind the boat and it got creamed by a good size Cobe which went into the esky for DIN DINS tonight. No more hits so we headed to 9 mile. First livie in the water turned into an unstoppable fish, one that I dont think new it was hooked until I put the pressure on it. It shredded the leader on the bottom after some massive headshakes. I would have liked to have seen that one.The gear was immediately upgraded and out came the elephant guns. But we only had one more hit which turned out to be a beauty of a Tusky and was also added to the esky for DIN DINS tomrow night. We had heard reports of Leatherjackets(AKA wirecutters) on the 50's so headed to the 35's first. Three drops with liveys resulted in one Ljkts and minus three sinkers and 2 hooks so we didnt go any further but turned the nose home and called it a day . Some very rapid fire action and some more truly fond memories.
Good Fishing to you all
Cheers Rod
The last Monday session with bait was pretty good fun(dont tell anyone I said that ;)) So Big Kev and me deciced to give this float lining a go and see if we could get into a few snapper. So we loaded a few pillies and hit the Tweed bar before daybreak this morning. We mooched around a bit in the dark looking for some likely looking ground and eventually anchored up . After started a bit of a burley trail kev hooked into a small squire first drop and I quickly got my two rods into action. I had one rigged with no weight and one with a small weight . I flicked the floater out the back and left it to slowly sink down as there wasnt much run at all. I took the heavier rod (with 20lbMono) and drifted a whole pillie back into the burley I felt a good hit and it started pulling line. Everything came up tide and the fish took off easily pulling drag. The floater started to scream off as well and I turned to see Kev bent into a fish as well. Complete chaos for a few minutes with the fish on the floater coming off and Kev landing a good size Squire. I was still tight on my fish and was calling it for a good Jew with all the headshakes. It popped up next to the boat as the sun was risng with beautiful silver flanks. We put it into the boat and shot the lines out agin. Kev jagged a yakka which was instantly turned into a LIVIE which was instantly turned into a screaming reel. We thought we had Jew number 2 but it popped up next to boat glowing Bright Yellow. Its the first time I have ever been dissapointed to see a 14kg King boatside. A few bonnies and small Squire later we pulled the pick to round up some more livies. After we had a few in the hatch I lobbed out one behind the boat and it got creamed by a good size Cobe which went into the esky for DIN DINS tonight. No more hits so we headed to 9 mile. First livie in the water turned into an unstoppable fish, one that I dont think new it was hooked until I put the pressure on it. It shredded the leader on the bottom after some massive headshakes. I would have liked to have seen that one.The gear was immediately upgraded and out came the elephant guns. But we only had one more hit which turned out to be a beauty of a Tusky and was also added to the esky for DIN DINS tomrow night. We had heard reports of Leatherjackets(AKA wirecutters) on the 50's so headed to the 35's first. Three drops with liveys resulted in one Ljkts and minus three sinkers and 2 hooks so we didnt go any further but turned the nose home and called it a day . Some very rapid fire action and some more truly fond memories.
Good Fishing to you all
Cheers Rod