I spent Saturday morning with the missus and the kids for a day on the water to earn some brownie points and an excuse for me to prefish for next weekend’s summer series. For the majority of the morning I really struggled to put fish in the well and found myself scratching my head as to what they wanted as I could see a tonne of good fish that would not eat any of my presentations. The missus was up me and asking me what going on and why can’t you catch em and I really didn’t have an answer for that. As the morning progressed I finally put a bag together which wouldn’t have gone anywhere near 2 kilos but one enjoyed by all with both my 3 and 10 year olds both scoring fish on lures with dads help.
After fish and chips and a break for the kids at paradise point we headed to another location to finish the day in which was a better choice with the mild northerly that was now blowing. The same lure choice that produced most of the fish during the morning session was again the standout scoring some solid bream and the fish of the day in the form of a 51cm jack which yet again I landed on bream gear. Not my infamous 2lb stuff but this time 10 lb castaway p.e and 4lb sunline f.c rock leader with my favourite hard body lure the jackal chubby fished off a Loomis 842-2. Not long before I hooked this fish another solid jack took one of these lures home for his trophy room. And yes if you would like to catch him he was put back on the same pontoon harassing the abundant bait schools that where present.
An ordinary morning was quickly turned around into a pleasing one with the later session producing some better quality fish on the falling tide, proving to me yet again that having fun watching the kids enjoying themselves out on the boat enjoying what I love doing is priceless.
Mick Horn
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