Spent Saturday Night/Sunday Morn anchored in the Myora reach of the Rainbow Channel.
Sounded around the general area before sending the pick over to anchor us on the drop-off. Lines go down and we're happilly fishing away. Within a couple of minutes I notice our boat has drifted off our mark, the request goes out to the "deckie" to start pulling in the rope so we can re-anchor. The rope and chain are retrieved but the anchor is missing, Hmm might have to use plyers next time to tighten the U-Bolt
Anyhow, we anchor up again with the spare anchor and continue with our fishing.
Fairly quiet night with just the odd scud of wind & rain coming through. Apart from the steady capture of sharks (Gummy, Shovel, Wobby's etc) things didn't reach any great heights and the kill tank remained fishless.
Decided that Daybreak might be worth a go over at Peel Is, on the way back to the Ramp at Cleveland.
We scored one nice Squire of about a Kilo and a half soon after our arrival.
We had anchored on the Northern Drop-off and could see the bottom over the bow of the boat. A huge school of Yellow-Tail Pike had come up the Burley Trail and provided us with plenty of entertainment catching them on 10gram Raiders. It was a pike every cast until we got sick of it (have plenty of bait for future fishing trips now).
Sent a couple of Pike out as "Livies" that attracted the attention of the local predators. Lost one to a bite -off, one was chopped in half and a third was ripped clean of the hooks. Could have been sharks or maybe something else with teeth ???
Ran into Kev (Reel-Hard) back at the Ramp. He was heading out into the Glassy conditions we left behind.
Maybe Mr Snapper next time
Cheers
Craig.
