Kyle & I headed to Peel pre-dawn yesterday to get some fishing practice in and test out Kyle's new Pfleuger Trion 2 - 4 kg rod....arrived to find perfect conditions a few other boats.
The snapper bite was hot around Hanlon from dawn until 7.00am when the boat traffic got busy. We landed a dozen or so snaps but most were undersize and only two or three were legal.
Drifted the eastern side for two more legal snaps before heavy boat traffic forced us away. We then decided to try the sand flats north of Goat Island for some flathead.
With big shows on the sounder and fish coming aboard left & right, Kyle drops a small slug and gets hammered by a good size flathead. Three drifts yielded 23 sand and bar-tailed flathead with all but two or three being legal. Biggest went about 45cm...
A good morning on the water and good fun on light gear, home by 11.00am. Final tally 15 snaps, 23 flathead, one tiny grinner and one wierd thigamy jig fish. All fish caught on plastics (except one flathead on a slug) and all fish released to fight another day. We also missed a few good bites and I failed to set the hook on a potential PB snapper...
For anyone interested in squid, they were thick on the sandflats on the runout tide and played havoc with our plastics....also saw quite a few birds working pelagic schools on the western side of Peel but they were very shy with all the boat traffic around.
Regs
Pete & Kyle
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