G'day
Well.... after work last night did some work on the boat (installed a cigarette lighter adapter), packed the boat and rigged all my lines I was around at petes place to pick him up at 1230am.
We launched at manly at around 1am and was greeted by dead still conditions and 4 other trailers in the carpark at the public ramp, up near the coast guard. We headed over to green on a sea with the best part of 2 knotts of wind blowing from the SW.
We drifted across green in varying depths, from 2.5M all the way up to 7M depth. the water clarity was very good, which may also have been working against us. All in all for the 4.5 hrs we were at green, I managed to boat one squire that went 33.5cm. this little bloke was such a poor excuse for a fighter, it was amazing. This fell to a 5'' gulp jerkbait in watermelon. On a 1/6 TT jighead, carrying a 3/0 heavy gamagatsu hook. I also had 3 other hits on the plastics, one resulting in a pike wich will be used for bait at a later date.
The floater with the pilchard usually gets taken by a tailor or 3, but not even a nibble today. It was just completely shut down. Pete was using his beloved herring, but to no avail. Not even an enquiry. Even bait in any form was extremely scarce and we couldn't find anything half exciting in the time we were there.
Just before first light we headed off to the port, via the port extention wall and fished sunrise at the wall near patricks. Not even a sniff there either, no bait holding along the wall like there had been in the past. Just a heap of damn jellyfish!!.
We finished the trip with a cruise up the boat passage just after low tide and made it back into manly harbour and back home by 8am. All this fun for about 9 litres of juice covering 47km for the morning.
I will be interested to know how the otheres fared out on similar grounds this morning so will keep my eyes out. Still cannot beat a morning out on the bay.
Dave
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