With a promising weather window on seabreeze for Brisvegus Wednesday, I went out with Hodgie to some ground I think they call shallow Tempest, just south of Henderson's in around 60 metres. Heaps of show but no active predators so we went a few k's wider but the current was fair ripping along making it difficult to fish. Lots of small squirey things that we sent back.
So we headed back into some ground a few k's north of Hendersons, on the way we found amazing amounts of bait sitting on the edge of the current line, but it didn't appear to be hanging off any definite structure. There was nothing feeding on it, so after a couple of unproductive drifts we headed into some ground north of Henderson's.
We worked it pretty hard again drifting the area . We caught one size squire, a nice little fat fish around a kilo and a bit and heaps of small squirey stuff that we returned. At one point I hooked into an unstoppable, man it was a big fish but I got done over big time. Toward the top of the tide we decided to pick up and see if we could entice the fish to come to us with some burley and float some baits down. After an hour, or so of setting a consistent burley trail and still only pulling consistently small fish a change in plan was needed so we trolled a couple of skirts around the FAD.
Well it wasn't long before the pink feather skirt was hammered and a good Dollie launches itself out of the water...What a fantastic ariel display, this thing took orf!!! It was a fish of around 6 to 7 kgs. After a top performance it came out of the water 4 times and let fly a couple of blistering runs, I had boated my first Dollie and first for Flamin Riptide. I can see why the sports fishing guys love those things on light gear. And they are such a beautiful fish too, man the colours are spectacular. There was part of me that wanted to release this amazing fish, but the box was empty and I've heard they are a good chew when eaten fresh so we bled him out to share him around the family.
We headed for home, the easterly swell on the out coming tide had really stirred the bar up. I could see why this can be such a treacherous piece of water, the pressure waves were causing the swell to really stand up to a couple of metres. But again the Riptide performed exceptionally well and the value of the extra neddies of the f200 was a real comfort. I wouldn't want to be attempting that piece of water in anything less.
But apart from that very literal bright spot with the dollie it was a pretty lean day. I suppose it's like anything, getting to know a new area takes time but I've gotta get Moreton worked out soon. Its driving me nuts!!!
Hopefully Hodgie will shoot through a couple of photos sometime today. I'll put them up when they come.
Cheers
Rhys
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have u turned back
musta been the nicoteen that put the fish off
