Was up at some ungodly hour driving towards my mate davo's place for a guided tour of peel and surrounds, a few wrong turns (half asleep) mate it in the end. We headed down to thrown in a wello point around 0345?? still asleep. Throw the boats in and follow davo over to peel. Drifted a few spots as the sun was coming through. Wasn't much on the chew at this time so we moved around a few different spots throwing plastics. Occasionally coming tight on a squire most were around the 25-30 cm mark with my best one stretching to 33 so nothing too large but entertaining non the less.
Drifted a new sport further out from the island and had one dead stick over the side and working another. I had the drag loose and the rod in the holder.. Was getting a few taps when the dead stick took off, picked it up and turned up the drag, I thought finally a legal squire.... But alas no squire but something unusual I thought a cobia!
More drifts and more squire, went down towards the bottom end of the island and first cast at the new spot off goes the rod and a little tussle up comes a nice grassie @ 35 let him go and few more drifts, plenty of snags. Oh well wound up the lines went over to see how davo was going I was pretty over knots and snags at this point so ready to go.
All in all a great day on the water shared a beer and a chat with a mate, plenty of laughs. This is what fishing is all about.
Reply With Quote
. cheers. and you forgot to mention how good the weather was
Originally Posted by z50man
. then off they go flat chat back out of the go slow zone
. i used to like peel because of the go slows as the bite sessions last longer undisturbed but these days no one pays any attention to them. they really should as there have been a few boats taking short cuts smack into the northern peninsula of late and geez they make a racket when they hit it full tilt. my father in law saw about 10 pinched by marine parks in 3 hours fishing time a fortnight ago.
