overnight at harries pays off again
after last weeks trip i was keen to do it again
left vic point about 6.30am sunday, gave it half an hour to fish the banks there for some whiting and got zip.....arrived to a 30/40 boat carpark about 8.10 and headed straight to chain banks where in 30to40 minutes i had a dozen whiting and 4 pike in the live tank, headed into the traffic....
started some drifts round the north eastern pile of pipes,just 2 boats there damned67 ** drifting and another parked right on top of the anchor i left there a week ago
** sorry i didnt say hi (didnt know it was you) or something about your sticker (every other time the bloke says...'oh that was on the boat when i bought it').... ill probably remember next time...
anyhow a few drifts later as im trying to adjust the bilge float (arse up head down) a reel screams, i manage to get upright and take control and after a reasonable fight i land a 62cm snapper on a glowgreen wriggler, unhook it and recast, then before i can take the fish out of the net another reel takes off with live pike bridled, whilst playing this fsh i manage 1 handed to pop the snap into the esky in time to net a 59cm jew (my pb queensland mullaway), take a snap of it on said esky before spearing it back (this was the only undersized fish for the whole trip).....
i tried the tiwi pearl for bit then headed back to drift over rock, pipes and shopping trollies then when in shallow (5m) at the end of a drift i tossed out some squid and immediately a 37cm snap commited suicide...some more drifting till 4pm but no more bites....
anchored up about 60 meters off the pipes and settled infor the night...set ut 2 live tings and 1 live pike..hooked 1 stingray before laying down....had about 3 hous of broken sleep....got up to screeming reels on 6 occasions....the second one i called for a snap... was right and boated a 66cm model at 12.30am on live ting....the rest.... bloody rays and sharks (all swam away with jewlery
got up at 5am with no runs for 3 hours or so and spent the next 30-40 minutes trying to untangle a heap of braid that played twister on the tide changeended up cutting most of it off.......
about 7 am i went and did some more drifts and apart from an anchorline on a boat i passed i didnt manage any till noon when i landed a 35.5cm on the green wriggler and decided to let it grow a bit more...went in shallow on chain banks and boated 27 tings in half anhour (10 in the live tank and the rest on ice) headed down the rouse and rainbow passages to myora where i anchored in 15 meters just west of the light...2.30pm, fished 3 live tings out the back till the current stopped and boat started to swing round 5pm...up anchored and headed back to the point just on dark....
slept 11hours last night...lol
the reel i caught the first snap on is a diawa 2500 and after the workout it gave the drag its making the worst tinny sound on rewind....looks like time for servicethe inox i had on boat did not help at all
another point, i didnt think rays took livies that much.... and when cleaning the fish the snap had the head and the body of the whiting inside (2 pieces), so im thinking maybe because i was bridling these livies that snaps (or sharks) may have bitten the body off (which pretty much kills the bait)then the head sinks to the bottom and a ray picks it up...any sugestions on this ???? maybe a stinger hook round the tail end or just go back to sticking the hook in the baits back???? on live and dead baits i use octopus circle hooks in 60 to 80....
as i now have plenty of snapper in freezer for us the next overnight looks like the pin for some xos mullaway.... couple to 3 weeks away...
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