Horse
29-08-2007, 09:26 PM
Hit the shipping channel today with my brother Glenn (Cervelo) in search of some of the nice Snapps he picked up yesterday (see report). Everything was looking good with a great forecast, 100% solunar peak, perfect tides and a bit of colour in the water;) .
Left Manly at about 5.30am and headed to the eastern Bay via some isolated structures. Pretty quiet so we proceeded to our main destination and sent out a couple of big placky's for a swim. My rod went off in short time and I was attached to a freight train and down to backing in next to no time:o . Glenn quickly got the other rods in and off we went in pursuit. The leader broke after another 5 mins:'(. A big let down and things went quiet for a while:-/
Another hour or so saw my Snapper Raider (loaded with a 7" Nuc Chook Gulp) bow over as a powerful fish took a long run. The fight was pretty predictable and before long a nice Bay Snapper just over 72cm was netted. This was my PB placky Snap so I was stoked;D
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A few more drifts and we decided to seek greener pastures and tried a few other spots in the central/eastern bay area
Decided to return to the scene of the crime on the run out and started drifting again. I was fishing two rods with one with the bail open and in the rod holder just deadsticking. I was busy with the other rod when Glenn yelled that the line was flying off the spool. I grabbed the rod, flipped the bail over and off it went:o . The already deminished spool seemed to melt away and in the few moments it took to clear the rods etc and start chasing i emptied my spool down to the spool knot leaned as far foreward as I could and just waited for the line to snap. At that moment we got the boat moving and I gained a few metres of line. A couple more runs and a nice 71cm Snapper lay waiting to join the first one.
We tried for another hour or so before hitting some structure in the central bay where Glenn pulled a couple at 64cm and 48cm before we headed for home.
A great day out on the water and a new placky PB ;D
Left Manly at about 5.30am and headed to the eastern Bay via some isolated structures. Pretty quiet so we proceeded to our main destination and sent out a couple of big placky's for a swim. My rod went off in short time and I was attached to a freight train and down to backing in next to no time:o . Glenn quickly got the other rods in and off we went in pursuit. The leader broke after another 5 mins:'(. A big let down and things went quiet for a while:-/
Another hour or so saw my Snapper Raider (loaded with a 7" Nuc Chook Gulp) bow over as a powerful fish took a long run. The fight was pretty predictable and before long a nice Bay Snapper just over 72cm was netted. This was my PB placky Snap so I was stoked;D
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A few more drifts and we decided to seek greener pastures and tried a few other spots in the central/eastern bay area
Decided to return to the scene of the crime on the run out and started drifting again. I was fishing two rods with one with the bail open and in the rod holder just deadsticking. I was busy with the other rod when Glenn yelled that the line was flying off the spool. I grabbed the rod, flipped the bail over and off it went:o . The already deminished spool seemed to melt away and in the few moments it took to clear the rods etc and start chasing i emptied my spool down to the spool knot leaned as far foreward as I could and just waited for the line to snap. At that moment we got the boat moving and I gained a few metres of line. A couple more runs and a nice 71cm Snapper lay waiting to join the first one.
We tried for another hour or so before hitting some structure in the central bay where Glenn pulled a couple at 64cm and 48cm before we headed for home.
A great day out on the water and a new placky PB ;D