Hi,
Got up this morning and checked the weather on the net which said SSW wind at 8 knots gusting to 11 mmmm swell 1.2 m, it wasn't raining at the time but the rain did wake me a little earlier in the night. Chatted to Heath on MSN and he was umming as well. OK we decided we would go.
Rang my decky and told him to get over here pronto. Loaded the boat just in time for my decky to arive. Jumped in the car as we rounded my street Heath was loading there boat, told him I would see them at the bait ground.
Put in at currumbin creek and headed for the bar, first boat in the creek and out the bar(saw one boaty checking the bar from the car park at the Alley with a boat in tow) followed the channel down the beach until I found the small waves pushing through the gutter so I nailed the throttle and just touched the bottom as we went through some white water. Quite a pleasent trip to the bait ground, arrived there just on 5am. It wasn't long before heath called us on the 27 Mhz asking for bar details, then before long he was anchoring near us.
The Yakkas wern't playing the game But Heath and Co were nailing them, so out with some more anchor rope and we were in buisness with some quality yakkas and cowanyoung (think thats how ya spell it)
At 6 am we pulled the pick and pointed the boat at spot X, the run took approx 20-25 min.
Once anchored we dispatched 2 yakkas under balloons and I placed an live 8 inch Yakka 6 ft from the bottom and as usual time for a cuppa. The fish were generous today they weighted for us to finnish our cuppas before the Yakka on the bottom got Smashed. I took charge of the rod and pushed the lever drag to strike (no need to set the hooks) the fish was heading straight at a bommy which breaks from time to time so i pushed the drag a little past strike, this fish was still not stoppin. Ok up with the drag a little more, PHEWWW it's turned oops it's headin out to sea. Finally the fish was turned towards the boat but it was staying deep. Head shakes were strong, I new this fish was gonna be a King and more than likely my biggest. Once the fish was turned towards the boat I backed the drag off a little (ya never know). I put the big lifts in and finnaly got to see the fish roll about 20ft under the boat, YEP it was big. The fish came to the surface right beside the boat and my decky sunk the gaff right into the fishes throat and hauled it aboard, I tell ya I was as stuffed as the fish
The rods were reset and no longer than 5 min went by and another rod buckled over, this time Rob my decky picked the rod up and sunk the hooks hard this made the fish angry and it toook a heap of line. He turned the fish and made some ground back only for the line to go slack. On examination the line was frayed considerably and we had lost 1.2m or wire with 6 meters of 150lb wind on leader to that fish, it must have been another King.
Another rod went while we were fixing our gear this time a nice spaniard ok around 7 KG was boated.
We pulled the pick at 9 am very Happy with our effort.
