Last week i was going to post about what i was doing wrong in the bay. I was struggling to bring home any keepers from about 8 trips. Then sat night/sun morning it all changed.
Went out saturday arvo. Took the little bro.
Used the garmin gps60 to find harries at night. Anchored over a great bit of structure.
Long story short, Plastics went cold as soon as it went dark. Got 6 squire Kept 3( as the others were around 37cm) 6 tailor (kept 1 of about 40cm) others around 30cms. 2 nasties that i need an ID on (pic below) they went around 50-60cm.
Got one monster that took me on the drop, it was lauching out of the water and then pick a direction and hit the throttle. I had to put the muscle into him as i didn't want him to spool me on the new braid, and naturally he snapped me off.
Don't know what it was but it was making a huge splash.
All squire at night went to half cut pillies on paternoster rigs, nasties fell to whole pillies floating out back, and the monster took an 8inch live squid on the drop about 5m down.
Morning came, and so did the boats. Pulled the anchor and started to drift with the plastics. We got around 20 keepers all over 40cm. Kept throwing the 10th one back in order to chase the bigger model, but never came.
I have to have a bit of a winge at the lack of manners of other boaters out there that morning. There were several occasions where these stains of people would anchor within spitting distance of me while im drifting, so i would have to pull in the lines and shift. After shifting and shifting it become unbearable.
THe only good thing about the carpark was the fact the all the people that were anchoring on top of us, still weren't catching anything. THe look on their faces when we would still pull in 3 squire per 60m drift was priceless.
I know that everyone has the right to fish were ever they want, but i think that a bit of etticate would go astray.
They plastic that done the damage was the 4inch minnow in pumkinseed and chartruese colour.
My PB squire of the day went 58cm. Little bros went 46cm, but he lost 5 on my rig that would of flogged mine by a mile.
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