hi all ive had a rough trot over the last few weeks having lost my fishing mojo ive hooked several good fish lately cpl monster flatties one well over 90cm a few jacks and a solid gt that nearly spooled me but found the only crab pot within a km radius but havnt landed much at all due to every reason under the sun bust offs ,pulled hooks and crab pot encounters
well after sitting at home over the last week due to the s#*thouse weather on my holidays i had to have a fish today with the rain and wind gone i headed to the spit after a cpl jewies in the dirty water and with a tide change at 1pm it looked good till after getting to marina mirage i realised summer field days was on and couldnt get up there
so the decision was made to see if the flattys were around at my usual flattie haunt upon arrival confidence wasnt to high due to the coffee colored water plastics were defiantly out so on goes the xrap 12cm model a few casts and i got a barracouda bout 70cmish
cpl more casts and im on again this time a nice 45cm jack hits the bank whoo hoo 1st jack on hb and 1st descent one in daylight with no camera i decided it would make a nice dinner and dispatched it and continued on casting half a dozen casts later im slammed again quick run down the rocks and a solid jack around the 55cm mark is stuffed on the surface (so i thought anyway) with flick of his tail he powers into the rocks at my feet and bricks me so after trying every thing to free him over the next 5-10mins the line goes slack and the profanities begin
re tied a new leader and put on the tilsan barra red and black another 15-20 mins of casting not a touch time to go and get some ice for the fish on the walk back to the car the good old one more cast came to mind and smacko im on again and a lovely 53cm jack is on the rocks whoo hoo a new pb
i asked a fisho nearby if he could take some pics on his phone and send em my way and the fish is swim min again another half a dozen casts for nothin so it was home time
Cheers Shane
sry bout the death shot but bloody forgot the camera and should have the other pic up tonite
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