lippa
17-04-2006, 09:02 PM
headed up to 1770 on thursday night, arriving at 11.45pm. (nothing like a 6hr tow after knocking off work). woke early friday morn to put the pots in and have a fish. headed over to the banks near the bar to drift, after about 10mins i land my 1st fish on soft plastics. a nice little flatty about 35cm. after about an hour we had landed about 10 in all (8 to plastics 2 to bait). amy (the minister for war and finance) seen some birds smashing the water to the entrance to the bar. set up the tld20 and btr6500 with cd18 and blue pilly and trolled through/around some big bait schools. had one strike but dropped it pretty quick. (bugger) check pots, no crabs. headed up to the mouth of toms creek to drift and try our luck again. amy has a massive hit on half pilly big flatty (70-80cm) but dropped it about a meter from the boat. i tried to comfort by saying we would have let it go anyway. number two species for the soft plastics(i'm hooked on 'em now) bloody big ugly sea toad. released unharmed to anoy some other bugger!!! more flattys on sp's, chech pots again, no crab.
saturday, slept in abit but loaded up and out to fish again. met willo (the skiny little builder) at his driveway and asked if he wants to go for a fish. heading up to middle ck was his reply wanna come?. no worries went and checked the pots first 1 solid buck and a nice sandy. unhooked the boat and set off to middle ck. we 1st stopped at eurimbula ck had a fish for a hour or so current was way to fast but pauline (willo's cook) landed a nice dart about 40cm. arrived at middle ck just before low tide WOW this place has to be seen. flicked sp's again and landed a tiger mackeral? great fun on the light gear. willo landed a nice flatty about 55cm. iwalked the banks for about two hours for a total 8 flatty's 1 tiger mackeral and on the last cast a very hungry juvinile moses perch plus numerous bust off and dropped fish.
sunday, we're heading offshore was the cry. stopped at agnes jacks for bait(sorry i didn't intoduce myself tony, you were pretty busy, didn't want to anoy ya' ;) headed through the bar it was about 1.5 mts got out and went "bugger" this and headed back in. >:( drifted over the other side again, no luck. took the short cut through the other little bar (high tide only) and went to urimbula by boat this time. anchored up in "good jack country" had plenty of hits but no fish landed. stopped at the mouth bar looked abit iffy so fished around the front till it got a bit better. headed through the bar but had on stand up on us out the back, air borne but we landed the right side up :o and headed back to round hill creek more flatty's on the sp's. i reakon th sp's counted for at least 10:1 compared to dead baits :) check the pots again, no crabs, pulled the pots in and headed for home. a few thank you's. tony and von at stanage bay marine center for letting us stay at there place at agnes. Willo, cheers mate you and your family gave us a top weekend. tony, great shop mate and top advice. ( don't bring ya bait and crap into town guys shops like tony's deserve our support and the prices are the same any way) and last canoedle (af member) your sp advice was tops, cheers mate!!!
saturday, slept in abit but loaded up and out to fish again. met willo (the skiny little builder) at his driveway and asked if he wants to go for a fish. heading up to middle ck was his reply wanna come?. no worries went and checked the pots first 1 solid buck and a nice sandy. unhooked the boat and set off to middle ck. we 1st stopped at eurimbula ck had a fish for a hour or so current was way to fast but pauline (willo's cook) landed a nice dart about 40cm. arrived at middle ck just before low tide WOW this place has to be seen. flicked sp's again and landed a tiger mackeral? great fun on the light gear. willo landed a nice flatty about 55cm. iwalked the banks for about two hours for a total 8 flatty's 1 tiger mackeral and on the last cast a very hungry juvinile moses perch plus numerous bust off and dropped fish.
sunday, we're heading offshore was the cry. stopped at agnes jacks for bait(sorry i didn't intoduce myself tony, you were pretty busy, didn't want to anoy ya' ;) headed through the bar it was about 1.5 mts got out and went "bugger" this and headed back in. >:( drifted over the other side again, no luck. took the short cut through the other little bar (high tide only) and went to urimbula by boat this time. anchored up in "good jack country" had plenty of hits but no fish landed. stopped at the mouth bar looked abit iffy so fished around the front till it got a bit better. headed through the bar but had on stand up on us out the back, air borne but we landed the right side up :o and headed back to round hill creek more flatty's on the sp's. i reakon th sp's counted for at least 10:1 compared to dead baits :) check the pots again, no crabs, pulled the pots in and headed for home. a few thank you's. tony and von at stanage bay marine center for letting us stay at there place at agnes. Willo, cheers mate you and your family gave us a top weekend. tony, great shop mate and top advice. ( don't bring ya bait and crap into town guys shops like tony's deserve our support and the prices are the same any way) and last canoedle (af member) your sp advice was tops, cheers mate!!!