Manly Harbour

[For Steve]

G'day,

We got the family together this afternoon for a couple of hours relaxing down at the Manly Harbour to watch the boats come back in. We brought along a few coldies, some nice snacks and the camp chairs. A nice way to spend a couple of hours on a Sunday afternoon.

I also brought along my light SP outfit - just in case. After about 30 casts off the rocks, I had landed 3 fish - a small moses perch, some unidentified thing, and a 60cm flathead! Actually, I hooked the flathead then called over my 10 year old nephew, Jakey to take the honours. After about 5 minutes and some decent runs, Jakey positioned it perfectly at the waters edge for me to grab. After a minute admiring our catch, we set the nice flathead free. No photos sorry - just the yarn.

I thought for a moment about keeping it, but remembered I still have a couple of meals of snapper in the freezer from a couple of weeks ago.

Regards, Brad.

[Horse]

Nice to see a good fish like that going back

[richieboy]

Nice stuff steve. Should get some good tailor running thru there soon. I saw a school of LT's smashing up bait at the entrance there around this time last year. Speccy sight.
Well done on the release. Did you see much bait around?

Richie

[sarg]

Nice one Brad letting your nephew bring it in, I did that on my brothers bucks party, took a half day charter and not much was being caught and just before we had to pack up I hooked up and gave it to him since he hadn't got anything decent and it turned out to be a 40cm squire which apart from one unstopable was the best for the day.

Hows the baby going Brad?

Andrew

[For Steve]

Hi Sarg - the little man is going great - thanks for asking. Harry is 3 months now and showing more and more personality every day. Good on ya for letting your brother have a go with the squire - it's a good feeling.

Didn't see any bait around Richie - just had to try my luck with one of my favourtie plastics. I was suprised to catch a couple of fish just off the rocks like that, and with very little effort. I figured there probably wasn't a great number of decent flatties around that area so didn't want to take this one away. I reckon all the people watching Jakey reel it in thought we were mad to release it.

Cheers, Brad.

[sarg]

How funny my young fella is 8 months old and i'll give you 3 guesses at what his name is, you'll only need one though. Just getting teeth he's not making that much fuss though.

Andrew

[gregdeeth]

bet the young fella was loving it. great way to spend an arvo.