Anyone have any luck in the bay this past weekend?

[Damned67]

Wondering if anyone headed out in the horrid weather this weekend to have a shot with the king tides and full moon?

I made the mistake of taking of one my Dad's mates out on Sunday morning (hey, the wind was right down when I got out of bed and hooked the boat up). Hoped to run out to Harry's but the water was so bad in my 4.2 that we pulled up around Green.
I was sending out large squid heads out on my bait runner, and small baits on another rod. We anchored right over a very good show of fish, on the ledge just near the 'new' red marker, but they just didn't want what we were offering...
My drifting squid heads kept getting hit by sharks (based on the bite offs, with frayed leaders, even when using short lengths of wire).
I had one double hook up. My 'bottom bashing' rod with a very small bait got absolutely nailed at the same time as my bait runner. I let the bait runner sit while making sure the 'bottom' rig was well and truly hooked. What ever hit the 'bottom' bait had both size and power.. and lots of it. Of course, I handed that rod to my Dad's mate, being his third ever fishing experience, while assuming my bait runner with the huge squid head was going to have something even bigger.... Of course, the what ever was running with the squid head failed to hook properly, and in those few seconds, my 'bottom bashing' rod, in the hands of Paul the Pommy, got well and truly bricked.
We were on the Eastern side of the island, and the swell had gotten quite bad, so we moved around to the Western side for some protection. Fishing, as per usual, was much quieter on the Western side. Paul did, however, hook and land one of the biggest toad fish I've ever seen. And while it was just a toady, he had a great time landing it.
We pulled the plug soon after, for what was the worst boat ride I've ever experienced back to the marina. We made it back without incident, but it was certainly touch and go at times, and slow. I was certainly thankful that there seemed to be some sailing regatta coming out of the marina, with LOTS of support boats (we passed two small capsized yachts, being helped out already, of course)...

[SWANY22]

you a of ya head things we go through to go fishing

[huskii]

hi, was keen to try for some sandies in the big run(tide) woke up at 230am but it was pouring down rain no wind just rain. Went back to bed at 330am, i don't like going in the rain have no wether protection in boat and is very hard to see in the dark and rain, maybe i'm getting soft! One week without fishing is killin me.

[Craigo]

Fished green on Sat AM, wasn't too bad till the wind blew up
Fish were scarce, only managed a few
weather was too bad to chase any mackeral or try too many spots but managed to get a good feed of sandies
Made the trip worthwhile

[Damned67]

Yeah, Huskii seems to be the only one that does well, consistently, at Green!
While we were anchored near the red marker (anyone know why they changed it?), there were a lot of birds working the area between the drop off and the reef.... but there was far too much chop for me to consider standing up and tossing slugs in the area..... Probably wouldn't have hooked anything anyway...

Oh, and we only got a couple of very short, light showers... until we started running back to the marina! Then it pissed down.... at least it washed all the salt water off of us!

[Craigo]

I was wondering why the new RED also, looks temporary other one might have got wiped out

[ddobson]

Dambed if i even stayed out of that wind and rain it must have been bad as i normally get good reds in the lumpier swell but that had me worried as i got up at 4 am and then 5 am and said bugger it. I went out just before whe the storms were on there way and it was shut down. (i have had that happen sometimes before a storm as they all go quiet in stormy weather) Last week was 7pm high and it had dropped in wind and nothing at all when thats the best time and tide so you were game going out and getting back safe. PS must be why i have a tinny with a cracked hull.

[Juzo]

went out on Saturday night and fished the high tide up the river mouth. Dropped some live prawns in a hole near boggy creek and just got catfish and rays.

the wind dropped off and the clouds cleared so was a nice night on the water