Won't get to go fishing for a couple of months so headed down to Wello Point to fish - to avoid the Indy traffic down the Coast. Wasn't windy at home, but almost surf conditions on the bay. In desperation to get some fishing in I bit the bullet and put the boat in, but stayed in reasonably close. Caught nothing but vermin - rays, shovelnose sharks/rays, Wobbegongs, etc.
Fortunately by around 8pm the wind had eased and the white caps had disappeared so headed out at tried a couple of the drains south of the leads. Nothing but vermin again - including two hookups at the same time that had line peeling off at a rate of knots. Somehow managed to hold onto the two rods and land the one on the 30lb fireline first - bit of a skull drag. A bit excited to start with when I saw the flashes of silver in my headlamp, but only short lived as a 4kg catfish went into the net. I turned my attention to the other rod - a light whiting rod with 8lb line. After a 20 minute battle and several laps of the boat another huge catfish alongside, this one just under 7kg - a big catch on light line, just a pity it wasn't a "real" fish.
I moved north of the leads and tried the deeper drop off up towards Huybers beacon - the vermin continued, including 2 sharks to about one metre that took pillies I had under a float. I suppose they were keepers, but I don't know enough about what sharks are good to eat or how to clean them, so they went back in - with hook as I wasn't getting near their choppers. The reef fish started to bite in the hour before dawn, but only managed one keeper squire around 36cm. A few throwbacks around the 30cm and none of the sweetlip even close to being a keeper.
Keepers - one squire, one bream & 2 legal sandcrabs. Throwbacks - 11 shovel nose sharks, 8 wobbegongs, 3 sharks, 3 rays, grinners, puffers, etc. Never caught so much crap in my life including dozen or so previous trips to Wello Point.
Always next time ...
Cheers
Big Al 2
Originally Posted by -spiro-
