Wello Report 9th July

[aquarius]

Howdy Folks, I promised the Wife a lesson with the plastics this morning after all half the boat belongs to her ::).
We started out from Manly/ Lota ramp at 5-45am and headed across Waterloo bay towards the Huybers.
A 10 knot S/W gave a small chop and boy it was cool this morning.
Arrived at Huybers but could not get a park so off to Ormiston and to my surprise found 6 boats in my usual spot or close to.
Did a few drifts there but nothing showed so gradually we made our way along the reef edge until i hooked up to a couple of throw back squire around 33cms.
The Wife didn't even get a bite for the first few hours.
Well maybe a bite of leftover pizza from last night.
The fishing was very quiet until around 9-30 when the wife put her rod in the holder and all hell broke loose.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzz.
The little stradic screamed and it was on.
The wife would wind in some and then the fish would take it all back.
I had the drag set on 3lb and this fish was determined to stay in the water.
After about 5 minutes i net a nice 47cm squire.
The first for the wife on a plastic.
5 minutes later it was my turn.
These fish sure had some fighting spirit today!!!
Another squire at 37cm joins his mate.
Then just as i was taking a photo my line goes again.
This time a nice pan size sand flathead.
Things went real dead after that and we tried several spots without luck so back to the ramp before the low tide.
What great weather for a weekends fishing and a small feed as a bonus.
We were watching a small bait school on the surface when all of a sudden this sea snake launched itself through the school and got airborne.
This happened 3 or 4 times.
Amazing what crazy things one encounters out there on the water.
A very ordinary session but fun all the same.
Now the wife's hooked i guess she will want to come out on more trips. ;D
Cheers Brent :)

[Herm]

Congratulations Judy!!!! :D

What a lovely looking fish! I am yet to catch a keeper squire and am hoping that it will happen soon!

It looked like it would be very busy out there on the water today, by the full carpark and half of the surrounding streets being full of cars and their boat trailers at the Raby Bay ramp.

Happy that you had a productive day Brent and even more happy to see another fellow fisherwoman onto a good catch! ;)

:)Janine

P.S. is the plakkie a pumpkinseed coloured one? The only nibbles I had yesterday were on the pumpkinseed ones (nothing on the 5 other sorts that I tried :()

[aquarius]

Gidday Janine, Yes Judy was using a 3" Gulp pumpkinseed grub tail.
I was using some new plastics called BASS PRO WATERMELLON HAND POURED DROPSHOT WORMS and my old faithful Zoom baby bass.
We need some good tidal run to fire up the fish............today it was almost nonexsistant.
Bigger and faster running day time tides in the next few months so hopefully we will all get a feed of fish.
Cheers Brent :)

[NeilD]

Its great to see someone catch their first fish on softies. It certainly is a great way to fish the shallow reefs.

What was the water clarity like?

Cheers

Neil

[Tinn]

Hey aquarius I was also out there also this morning. Not much around the water was crystal clear in 6m of water could see my bait on the bottom not much chance of catching a fish when you can see your bait ;D

I was in the white tinny that waved to you near huybers.

At leaset the wife caught a nice fish well done ;)

[aquarius]

Hi Neil, The water was clear from the Wello leads down towards the Huybers but this was not so up towards the Ormiston Point.
The fish we caught came from between 5 and 6 metres.

Tinn, Mate not sure if i saw you but i did wave to a few guys out there today.
My apologies if i did not return the wave.

Cheers Brent

[T1]

Nice One Judy (Mrs Aquarius)!!! Hey Brent, aren't you lucky we left them for you for today! Man, we couldn't take a trick yesterday! Between Barnesy and myself, we tried just about every SP we had! Barnesy used some of your Zooms that you gave him and we both used a wide variety of Berkleys. Admittedly we missed a few hits too (due to sitting there without hits and being caught cold)! I caught mine on a Berkley Powerbait (1st fish on Powerbait). I'm actually going back to bait fishing this week for the 2 trips i have planned so we'll see how we go...

Take Care T

[longtail]

good report Brent , good the see the wife get a decent squire.

went for a run with a mate from work in his new boat yesterday out from wello , was plenty of boats drifting the 5metre line . didn't see many fish being landed tho'


cheers
Jason

[Tinn]

Aquarius you did return the wave good to see you managed a fish in such tuff times well done. Weren't any fish around yesterday not even the little ones. Jelly fish was the only thing I saw yesterday :'( :'(

[charleville]

Wow! Not only a wife who will go fishing with Hubby but one who is willing to get up early enough to be at the ramp at 5.45am! Wow! What a lucky man! ;)

An obviously great experience for her and of course, you. :)

A great catch! Congratulations to her! :) :) :)