It seems like this wind has been blowing for the last billion days or so - at least every time I try to go out the wind gets there before me- so with Seabreeze predicting a short lull, and with a morning high at about 8am, it looked like a good time to hit Wello with a placcy mission again.
I was going to hit it alone but at the last minute I called fellow Ausfisher and good friend GES (George) and he agreed to drop what he was doing and come out - didnt have to twist his arm too much
We launched at the Wello ramp at around 4.15am and hit Hybers a short while later, it was a little lumpy from some residual swell on the way out but quite bearable and with the overcast conditions, we were quite hopeful. Unfortunately the squire didnt want to play the game - we got monstered by a million pike who chewed up the gulps like they were lollies - it was starting to get expensive... Finally after yet another placcy change, I threw upstream and right into the waiting mouth of a squire... Hooray... not a monster but a nice pansize specimen at around 48cms which made a very good account for itself on the light gear.
A short while later and George is on too - this time he was using a 4"pumpkinseed Berkley stick bait, this one went 42cms - the next drift - in about the same place I found another which rubbed me off against some rough bottom... Bugger!
And that was about it for the morning, we tried some other spots up near St Helena and green - dropped a just under or just over legal squire due to knot failure while I was trying to lift in into the boat - felt like an rank amateur - what a dumb mistake to make!!also got busted up by a small school of macks who must be running around with scissors - cause the line was cut a long way up the trace.
Also talking about Macks - George caught a small pike who came up to the surface VERY quickly followed by some huge water displacement and something quite big (which we guessed was a mack - 6KGplus ) took an awfully big swipe at the poor little pike - who seemed to be very glad to get in the boat... it almost ran across the water to jump in
Anyway... not a big day - but it was great to get out and at least we didnt go home empty handed
Just the 1 pic - George was too camera shy
Adam
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Originally Posted by Adamy
