Disaster at Tinny:spot X

[richieboy]

Well well well..........Where do I begin. After wading the flats for a few lizards I was keen to try out the new prawn star lure and hit the upper reaches of Tinny for a jack fish!
Had some lunch and as the tide rose, made my way down.
I only brought the light out fit, small spin stick with 8lb line and rigged up the prawnstar on 20lb leader.
As I wasn't expecting much I thought this would suffice. How wrong I was...........
After about an hour of working the structure I decided to work the mid water and on the 2nd twitch hit what seemed to me to be a snag or crab pot??
Just a dead weight coming up. Or so I thought. Nearing the surface and only 3m away from me, 2 lads near me shout,
"Holy sh!t! Look at all that water displacement!@!" and with a huge swirl this thing just took off like a cut snake stripping braid as it dove! In short time I was down about a third of my reel and it was at this point I think that tweeking my drag was supposed to help. You would have thought so...........NOT!! >
The old wilson was buckled over about 30cm from the rod grip and I decided to stop it then and there before I was spooled so I laid the hand on the reel too slow down the big girl and that's when I parted company with leader and lure. At least I kept my line.
Me and the other two onlookers called it for a huge estuary cod Idon't thinkit was a ray as I was mid water and it fought very similar to my last cod.
About 30 mins before I'd also landed a small red spot cod so I have no doubts bigger specimens lay down there.
Called it quits after that and left spitting chips. The other fellas offered me some plastics they had with em, but I declined. (Thanx fellas if you guys were Ausfishers )
Now I gotta get a new lure............On the drive home I thought about it and I got what I deserved for being undergunned. Certainly won't happen next time tho.
In short don't go under gunned targeting Jacks in case bycatches of large cod smash ya. BYE BYE lizard hunting. It's time for jacks and cod.
Hope you enjoyed my disaster story folks. Cheers.

Richie

[heathrow69]

What a story mate!!!! unlucky about losing something big but imagine if you had caught it?? you would have had a huge grin and plenty of pics to show.

Better luck next time mate

Cheers
Heath

[Poodroo]

Murphy's law again huh? It always happens to the best of us when we turn up with light gear and the big stuff is there to meet you. So next time you turn up with some serious gear and all you catch is undersized fish straight out of the fish nursery. There is always the odd trip where it all comes together keeping the fishing bug alive enough to want to tackle them again another day.

Poodroo

[T-roy]

Hey mate
Bad luck, hopefully you will get him another day

[richieboy]

Thanx fellas. even if I had gotten the mongrel up I would have no where to land her. No net nuthing. And the way the rod was buckeled I would have had alot of fun poling her out.
I'm more upset at the fact my new prawnstar is gone. That was my first sesh with one and am very keen to try it out again at the same spot.
Good thing I'm off to Vegas early next year for work so I can pay Basspro a visit and stock up on some new gear.
Thanx for the replies folks. Sorry I couldn't get a pic this time.

Rich

[big_steve001]

thats some real bad luck there mate, at least u no it will be there next time you go down and hopefully it can ataach itself again

[zach]

nice story mate bad luck about the fish it would have been good if u atleast sore
cheers
zach

[Herm]

Sorry about losing your Prawnstar! but atleast you did not lose it on a snag!

I know it is Spot X for a reason, but how far up Tinny do you head? We live in St James Park Estate which backs on to Tinny and have often wondered if you would catch something this close to home!

Next weekend when Pete is home it might go like this! "Pete - I am just going for a walk" "Ok dear, but why do you have your rod and tackle bag????"

Cheers
Janine

[Jeremy]

you shouldn't be too hard on yourself about losing the fish. If you up the strength of your tackle, you will get less hits. What would you rather, catching a few fish and losing the odd one, or just catching the odd bigger one? I prefer lighter gear myself - more hits and more fun. Lose the odd fish, but that is fishing.

Jeremy

[TIM-DONSELAAR]

Richie its almost Xmas if you have been a good boy santa might bring you some new prawnstars

cheers tim

[T1]

Alledgedly!!!!


T

[Great_White]

Bit of bad luck Richie, It always plays on your mind what it was and what could have been.

But there is always next time

Peter