G'day
Well.... I was down the pin today for the m&g.... launched at cabbage tree about 0530 and headed straight for the pin. These were the conditions of which I was greeted..... absolutely glassed out. I shot through to the bar in search of some pelagics... and nothing. It was good though as it was sunrise and looked just awesome. Also had a play in the surf which is always fun. After that headed up never never creek to flick some plastics with the water being under 1M deep. Nothing in there but some nice bait balling up just outside the fallen timbers on the big drop off.
With no luck here and just after 8am, I decided to run down to tipplers for breakfast...... Great value down there for those who aren't in the know. On the way down I came across a 32'ish flybridge cruiser aground... quite a funny sight. After breakfast found the rest of the boys for the m&g, good to put faces to names and the like. After a good few hours there mucking around on the beach we split up to go fishing and I headed north, and ended up following murks in his ensuite.
I started drifting in tiger mullet channel... trying all different plastics and jigheads, and drifting with a pillie on the baitrunner on a set of gangs aswell. By the way, I picked up a drogue and for people who haven't got one, you need one... If you drift alot they are brilliant. I spent a good few hours casting without a hit and just persisted and tried different spots.
Now I don't know the pin really at all and get lost down there in a big way but what I found was to me, great ground. the plastic of choice was a 5''gulp jerk shad in watermelon..... matched with a TT 1/8 1/0H jighead. I was using the new colored vanish, in 10lb as a leader backed onto 10lb fireline. I was also floating out a pilchard on 3x4/0 gamagatsu gangsters, backed by 50lb trace.
Now It took a couple of drifts covering different ground and for the day, only landed 5 fish. First of all was a flathead, at 57cm. He was nailed on the plastic. Quality I said.. and was very happy with that. Next drift saw a tailor at 45cm on the pillie into the boat. I was feeling good. Proceeded with similar drift patterns for another tailor at 44cm, and a bit later on a 37cm snapper both falling to the drifted pillie. Took a couple of other drifts after that and picked up my new PB flathead. Damn I was stoked!!. She went 66cm and 2kg.
Headed back to the ramp after this and cleaned the fish..... even saw a dolphin chasing bait out by the yellow marker opposite cabbage tree ramp. Traveled 46km today for an estimated 7L of juice. Pictures to follow.
Dave
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