Went out for a fish sunday morning. It was a late start because the wife was coming along, we left cleveland boat ramp about 730 in search for some mackeral. Had a look at harry's a couple of boats there (one might have been aquarius), but no surface activity so headed up to the sand hills.
Only problem was I had no idea where I was going as we had never fished the area before, a few birds around but no surface activity. Decided to have a look over towards the four beacons and we found a small school of fish under a couple of birds.
We took our time to get close enough to cast, which is very frustraiting seeing the fish come up and go down a few times before you get any where near them but this is the only way to do it. Finally we got close enough, they aren't mackeral they are longtails even better. They where hitting the surface different than we had seen before, more of an explosion of water.
Mark (plasticfantastic) got the first cast in (a little premature, I won't go any further with that), I waited until the fish where surfaced again, bang Im on but within seconds the line was slack. Thought we was swimming towards me so wound like crap but he was gone. Gave it another cast in the direction I thought they where heading and Im on again.
Took about probably ten minutes with the trusty S10H tuna slayer and my new pb was on board. Not the longest I have caught but the fattest, 110cms and 13kg. Got a few photos and speared him back in to get even fatter for next time.
Looked around for a while to find the same school again, got one more hook up but lost again? Today we fished with 25g slugs, we always use soft plastics and never have the problem of dropping fish, is this common?
Ended up doing a run out through the Rous down the rainbow and across the back of peel, but by this time it was high tide with no run so not much chance of surface action. Home in time to wash the boat, mow the lawn and sit down and watch the cricket for the night.
Finally a decent days weather, (at least for the bay). It was good getting the fish of the day on the boat, as the captain always casts last
ANDREW
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