With a little bit of forward planning I convinced my boss (real boss, not the wife) that I should take a day off for my birthday so that I could get in the boat and enjoy a day on the water. What better way to spend your birthday? With the boat all prepared and ready to go I launched from Manly at first light. For a day that was predicted to be less than 10 knots from the southeast I was greeted by a 15 knots wind as soon as I was on the water. Fortunately it didn’t create a large swell but just a little bit of chop to take the edge off an otherwise smooth ride out to Mud. I had only just arrived at Mud when in the early morning light I noticed I wasn’t alone. There was another boat out and I noticed him waving at me. It was then I realized I was in the company of T1. A quick wave back and I continued my drift. I later stopped for a quick chat to be sociable (sorry about coming close to your line T1 but I honestly couldn’t see it and assumed it was out of the water) and then headed off to keep fishing.
Today I was fishing with two favourite plastics being the good old Nuclear Chicken and also on the other rod I had the Lime Tigers happening. To my surprise the first rod to scream off was the Lime Tiger and after a brief tussle I landed a nice 45cm squire which is an ideal size for the table. I put a fresh LT on the jighead and cast back out and as soon as it hit the water it got smashed and in comes a 34cm sweetlip. Content that I had enough to satisfy the taste buds for dinner I continued to fish but it went a little quiet for a while. T1 must have decided to try his luck elsewhere because I looked up and he was gone and I had Mud Island all to myself. Once the tide changed I tried a few different spots because the drift pattern had changed. It didn’t take me long to stumble across a patch of hungry fish consisting of squire, grass sweetlip, grinners, and whiptails. Most of the fish that came onboard were only just legal so whilst I was having fun catching them I decided to release them all to do some growing and to fight another day. I also caught a 40cm squire but decided to let him go as well because the fish I had were more than ample to provide myself and the kids a feed. Decided to call it quits at around 1:30pm and left the fish biting. Not much in the way of PB’s but it was a great day none the less.
Regards,
Poodroo
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