Scalem
21-04-2007, 06:24 PM
Hi All,
Today was a long time coming for Brad ( For Steve ) and myself. We were both keen as mustard to hit the water early, and to have a serious fish with plastics around wello and green. This was Brad's 3rd trip with me, our 2nd trip in his Alleycraft 395. Brad needed a good trip to unwind, and we both needed confirmation that plastics fishing can really "turn it on" in a big way, given the right weather and conditions.
We started at wello. The same area I always go, the same area that T1 and Aquarius prefer, but the same area I didn't catch a keeper last week. After around 30 mins and an increasing amount of boat traffic, we were both convinced that Wello was not going to do much for us, deciding that trying to drift through a maze of anchored boats was going to be a waste of time, so off to Green.
We started from a spot I know on the SE corner, and picked up a couple of Snaps and an unusual number of Bar Tailed Flathead, but the best was yet to come. We kept working different spots of Green, again spying Aquarius, but this time saying a proper hello. It's easy following your blue and white Haines all over the place Brent, it stands out a mile!! ;D
The wind died down, the tide started to run, and the sounder showed promise. We caught Cod,Parrot, small sweetlip (released), Flounder and Snapper to 45cm. In the end you would have thought we were a pair of drunkards, we could not stop laughing at the regularity of bites and Brad's comments after catching yet another and another Bar tailed Flathead. Both appreciating the ol' flattie on the plate, we decided to stop at 4 each, and stop we did!!;) The photo of my 48cm fish was taken just before it's release, and the photo of Brad hanging over the side of the boat was the two fish caught side by side. Brad was still trying to untangle his from the net, when I hoisted mine into the boat, because the net wasn't available. I knew it was safe to do so, you could see he was lipped and no risk of biting through the trace. Both these were released also.
By about 2.00pm all other boats in the area left us alone. THe snapper continued to smack our plastics on the drop, allowing sometimes only 2 or 3 seconds before the sound of ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZ. Another flattie comes in ...Geez, there's more flatties than there are grinners... and another ...... These flatties are like vermin now, we want that 50+cm Snapper, will you guys give us a break!!
How many last casts did you count Brad?? Eventually neither of us wanted to leave, so we had to change the full time hooter to " whoever catches the next fish, that will signal time to pull stumps" Brad caught the next Snapper which would have been over the 35cm, but he was becoming lazy calling for the net now, agreeing that if the fish gets off the hook, it does not matter anyhow, we've got plenty!! I would not let him start the motor until I had the last fish, which happened 2 mins later, and released. We looked to the south and saw lightning - that was the decider, we're outa here!!
Thanks Brad for the awesome company today. Don't forget to send me the GPS marks you put in, I definitely want to pinpoint that spot again!!
Today was a long time coming for Brad ( For Steve ) and myself. We were both keen as mustard to hit the water early, and to have a serious fish with plastics around wello and green. This was Brad's 3rd trip with me, our 2nd trip in his Alleycraft 395. Brad needed a good trip to unwind, and we both needed confirmation that plastics fishing can really "turn it on" in a big way, given the right weather and conditions.
We started at wello. The same area I always go, the same area that T1 and Aquarius prefer, but the same area I didn't catch a keeper last week. After around 30 mins and an increasing amount of boat traffic, we were both convinced that Wello was not going to do much for us, deciding that trying to drift through a maze of anchored boats was going to be a waste of time, so off to Green.
We started from a spot I know on the SE corner, and picked up a couple of Snaps and an unusual number of Bar Tailed Flathead, but the best was yet to come. We kept working different spots of Green, again spying Aquarius, but this time saying a proper hello. It's easy following your blue and white Haines all over the place Brent, it stands out a mile!! ;D
The wind died down, the tide started to run, and the sounder showed promise. We caught Cod,Parrot, small sweetlip (released), Flounder and Snapper to 45cm. In the end you would have thought we were a pair of drunkards, we could not stop laughing at the regularity of bites and Brad's comments after catching yet another and another Bar tailed Flathead. Both appreciating the ol' flattie on the plate, we decided to stop at 4 each, and stop we did!!;) The photo of my 48cm fish was taken just before it's release, and the photo of Brad hanging over the side of the boat was the two fish caught side by side. Brad was still trying to untangle his from the net, when I hoisted mine into the boat, because the net wasn't available. I knew it was safe to do so, you could see he was lipped and no risk of biting through the trace. Both these were released also.
By about 2.00pm all other boats in the area left us alone. THe snapper continued to smack our plastics on the drop, allowing sometimes only 2 or 3 seconds before the sound of ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZ. Another flattie comes in ...Geez, there's more flatties than there are grinners... and another ...... These flatties are like vermin now, we want that 50+cm Snapper, will you guys give us a break!!
How many last casts did you count Brad?? Eventually neither of us wanted to leave, so we had to change the full time hooter to " whoever catches the next fish, that will signal time to pull stumps" Brad caught the next Snapper which would have been over the 35cm, but he was becoming lazy calling for the net now, agreeing that if the fish gets off the hook, it does not matter anyhow, we've got plenty!! I would not let him start the motor until I had the last fish, which happened 2 mins later, and released. We looked to the south and saw lightning - that was the decider, we're outa here!!
Thanks Brad for the awesome company today. Don't forget to send me the GPS marks you put in, I definitely want to pinpoint that spot again!!