Sydney F A D 03/01/06

[JOCOOL]

I will leave the actual reporting to those that actually fished. Due to deckie dramas I had to turn back early. I will however leave you with some pictures of a glorious day out on Sydney Harbour, and beyond.:)

Good to see the boys out in force.Andrew, Ken, Matt, George,...I hope you all fared better than I! I know that Dazza and Wayne did OK. They called me as soon as I hit dry ground with their reports!:(

Anyway.......Thats fishing.

[MarkD]

Tough luck Joe. A good deckie, worth his wait in gold I reckon :D

[george.s]

bad luck jocool thats life mate:rolleyes:

[swoffa]

Pity you couldn't stay out there Joe, but like I said on the water there's nothing worse than the feeling of seasickness so I'm sure your deckie was very greatful that you turned back.

If it makes you feel any better we stuck it out until about 2pm for bugger all, Matrix got a nice 69cm lizard but everything else was tiny.

[Wetpatch]

How's that saying

You can pick your Friends but you can't pick your relatives :D

BAD LUCK THERE ALWAYS SATURDAY :) :) :)

[JOCOOL]

BAD LUCK THERE ALWAYS SATURDAY :) :) :)
Might be shit out of luck this weekend! Depends on what time a funeral will be held on Saturday!

I take it Andrew, you didn't get back out there when I called you?

[Narralakes]

Hey Joe,
tough luck on the deckie, but it happens. Thanks heaps for the tip, it paid off in the end, I landed my first legal king, just on 60 cms and I was stoked! Didnt he burn some line off the 10 wt. It was awesome fishing out there with schools all over the place, fish were hard to get and we got there right on the end of the hot bite. Exciting stuff to say the least, but overall a tough day, we fished mainly in MH and the Harbour and were chasing fish which were boiling all over the place but only up for 2 seconds, if it wasnt for Joe, I would be fishless! I caught my king on a spinster fly, had heaps of follows too, but only the one hook up and capture. It was good seeing everyone out there today.
cheers

[Darryl]

Day started as planned for me ,rising at 3am to get to Tunks Park at 4.30. Wombat was already lurking and Joe arrived shortly after (A message to all those boofheads that launch at night with your car headlights on - BLOODY DON'T:mad: :mad: :mad: )

Yakkas were quite easy to boat at Balmoral, particularly for those using the secret burley;) . Wombat ( Wayne) & I also scored a kingi-candy squid each.

The Waverider was reading 2-3.5m just before I left home so I wasn't real confident that we'd get out. After we cleared the slop at the heads it was easy going to the Goverment FAD, which we had to ourselves. Water was only 22.5deg & looked dark & murky. Trolling livies & spinning pilles brought nothing to either boat. Last week off Broken Bay the dollies were holding deep so I positioned & held Gunboat 50m or so up-current of the device so Wayne could float a pillie tail down deep around the structure. Wasn't long before he hooked up but that fish made its escape so we did it again. Bingo, one dollie boated. Only small but don't you just love it when a plan works.
We tried the same technique a few more times but couldn't raise a scale.

Back inshore we went, noticing a heap of boats near the Bower. I asked a bloke in a kayak (who was a ringer for DaveL but wasn't) what was happening. Kingis he said so I thought that'll do us. Wayne & I chucked sluggos at the boils but nothing happened until Ankles rang on my mobile. As we were yakking I left the sluggo just sluggoing in the water & then bang. Sorry Ankles I said, I'm on, talk to you later. I could hear him laughing as I dropped the phone on the deck. It was all rod work as I'd tied the sluggo direct to the 10lb fireline - lazy huh. But all held together & Wayne netted the king, which measured out at 61cm. Beaut, first legal king for quite some time & dinner at last for Mrs Admiral - Home Command, Back Yard. Not long after, Wayne landed a 51cm model on a pukey green sluggo ( mine was the traditional nipple pink variety) A few other boats were scoring the occasional kingi. mostly on 10" whites it seemed.

Time now for the downrigger to pay for itself but we couldn't raise a strike at the Bower so trolled around to North Head and into Quarantine & over the wreck, just loosing the single bait but no takes.

That was it & we passed under The Spit just as the predicted 15kn Westerly started to brew up. Thanks Wayne for stepping in as deckie at late notice & I hope Boppa didn't have too bad a day today on fire duty.

Cheers, Darryl

[bluecod]

Joe,

if it makes you feel any better, there's only one thing worse than not getting a chance to have a good fish



.... and that is


... thrashing the water to foam with your fly gear and only having a couple of follows, even with fish busting up all around the boat and at times no more than 30 feet away. It would have been the stuff dreams are made of had they been on the chew. Thanks for the tip anyway, it was exciting stuff to watch.

Was good to see so many faces out there :D and a special thanks to one of Narra's colleagues who passed over a 20 litre tank of fuel so we could have some when Narra's motor went brrrrt-brrrrt-brrrrt-nothing :eek:

Good day out anyway, particularly at late notice - thanks Ken.

[wombat]

Well just emerged from a catch up powernap after getting back. Won't repeat Darryl's report says it for the both of us. I'll just attach the pics which tell the rest. A great day out thanks to Darryl for the ride and good company and Joe for organising us. History was in the making today. My first anything on a SP and first time on a sluggo even though it was a 'pukey green'. :eek: Well it works!! :D All my fish went back today but was more than happy with that. Great day. Sorry about your mate Joe. Hope he's got more colour around the gills now. :D

Wombat :)

[wombat]

And the now rest.

[ANKLES]

well done there boys top day out :eek: :eek: :cool:

[lbgking]

Bloody work!

Anyway maybe next time.

[MarkD]

Nice pics Wombat:)

[fishaman635]

Sounds like a great day guy's

Ihad a good day with wife and her clone

for the wifes birthday !!!

Hope to catch a lift with one of you guy's

next time.


Laurie

[leelee]

Well done guys.

Hope those dollies fatten up asap.

Cheers

Lee

[JOCOOL]

I landed my first legal king, just on 60 cms and I was stoked!
WOO HOO...At least something good came out of an ordinary situation for me.:o Great to see that everyone had a good time. Great pics you have taken too Wayne. Awesome water out there wasn't it? How someone could get sea sick in today's conditions is really beyond me!:confused:

[Basic]

:D Well done Darryl. That kingy looked a beaut.Good to hear a good day was had by all, except Joe had a bit of bad luck,but must give him full credit for doing the right thing by a chap that is sea sick.:) Ben.

[leelee]

I agree Basic. A top skipper always looks after his deckies.

Well done Jo. Karma will return the show of good faith, that you can be assured of.

Cheers

Lee

[Narralakes]

Joe,
lucky you didnt hang around as long as George and I. We were tucked in behind Bluefish and the sthly had well and truly arrived by the time we decided to head back, we got drenched! But in my tinny, that was expected, probably would have been alright in your boat.

[Jimbo]

Sounded like a great morning fellas with the exception of Joe!

I was thinking of you lot while I was at work:mad: :mad:

Great pics wayne!

Cheers guys

[cajun]

I was thinking of you lot while I was at work:mad: :mad:

Great pics wayne!

Cheers guys

Ditto from me. :rolleyes:

Cheers
Ken

[hottuna]

well done guys. Wish i was out there that day. I was up the coast ready but decided to call a none boaters day. (it was the best morning condidtions all week) Ive just called by home (smithfield) for a fews days before i return north.

the fires new years day at umina was something i don`t mind seeing ever again. Huge flames visible on the hill tops, hot thick choking smoke and alot of burnt scrub almost the entire steach of woy woy rd. SAD...after all thats happened on my way home last night (4th jan) the car infront decideds to throw a ciggy out the bloody window - on woy woy rd!!!! :confused: I couldn`t believe someone could be that thick!:mad:

One born every minute

Dan

[iain]

Fantastic reports boys and it looks like a great day was had by all . . . maybe with the exception of the bloke that got sick!

Who was it BTW????

Joe you did the right thing mate. I have a suggestion for the future Joe and that's a mandatory Kwell or Travacalm for deckys. No pill, no trip. That will save you alot of grief.

[JOCOOL]

Who was it BTW????

He was a cousin Iain. One of many! And now one of many that will never come out with me.:eek:

[iain]

Did he have to beg for you to take him back??

[Grozzo]

It is all pretty quite out there at the moment i reckon

i took the new boat out twice and done over 220km's trolling (over 2 days, one off kiama and one off port kembla) for sweet F A!!!!

i did manage to find some game fishing club FAD's though ;) :D which made it all worth it hahaha!!!

but no bait no action at all really on both days and we went over 44km's east!

cheers,


Wayne

[Bashir]

Wayne how good is that 4 stroke! We bombed out at kiama too, locals and pros weren't even fishing there, they were all fishing Jervis Bay, canyons out there are supposedly fishing well, still plenty of good fin over 40kg and some stripes showing up. Ah well, back to long reef and broken bay wide for me:rolleyes: