Byron
11-01-2006, 02:26 PM
Hey there all,
It looks like I was not the only one to be out on Saturday, however, I don't recall seeing any familar boats/faces over the course of my travels.....and they were extensive.
Launched at 5.30am and quickly zoned in on our squidding grounds. Not much action, but a few squid were managed. Thought we needed more in the way of live baits so proceeded to get a burley trail going off Quarantine Point. A few yakkas arrived quick smart followed by a school of garfish. Woo hoo!!
We all proceeded to re-bait with bread instead of pilly and knocked more than 20 of these tasty critters on the head!!
Time for some serious fishing we though and after rigging up a squid and a garfish for a slow troll we ran the length of Nth Head, and then across to Dobroyd. No sooner than we ran past the point and the Garfish went off. A tough tussle resulted in a sub-legal king with no mates following. A few more passes resulted in no further action so we ran out the rapalas and headed up middle harbour.
A couple of choppers on the troll and the livies were re-deployed at Clontarf to work the edges of the boats on the slow troll. ran up past the spit on the Nthn shore and picked up 2 more sub legal kings. Continued our troll along the eastern shore towards Bantry Bay for no result.
Having lost our sand anchor at Quarantine :mad: we had no choice but to drift, and drift we did, all along the flats at the top of Bantry for no flatties damn it.
Decided to re-trace our steps back to Quarantine with a stop at Clontarf to work the flats for a flathead. Not a great plan as it turned out as every plastic was absolute monstered by micro jackets.
Quarantine and Store beaches were chockers with Recreational Boaters :p so we decided to hit the tide change on the troll with the remaining squid. ran a few lengths of North head for touch ups but no solid hook-ups and decided to call stumps.
A bag of Garfish was better than nothing and they cooked up and absolute treat!! Interesting thing was that the trolled garfish took all the kings on the troll with the squid left wondering what it had done wrong.
Tight line fellas,
Byron
It looks like I was not the only one to be out on Saturday, however, I don't recall seeing any familar boats/faces over the course of my travels.....and they were extensive.
Launched at 5.30am and quickly zoned in on our squidding grounds. Not much action, but a few squid were managed. Thought we needed more in the way of live baits so proceeded to get a burley trail going off Quarantine Point. A few yakkas arrived quick smart followed by a school of garfish. Woo hoo!!
We all proceeded to re-bait with bread instead of pilly and knocked more than 20 of these tasty critters on the head!!
Time for some serious fishing we though and after rigging up a squid and a garfish for a slow troll we ran the length of Nth Head, and then across to Dobroyd. No sooner than we ran past the point and the Garfish went off. A tough tussle resulted in a sub-legal king with no mates following. A few more passes resulted in no further action so we ran out the rapalas and headed up middle harbour.
A couple of choppers on the troll and the livies were re-deployed at Clontarf to work the edges of the boats on the slow troll. ran up past the spit on the Nthn shore and picked up 2 more sub legal kings. Continued our troll along the eastern shore towards Bantry Bay for no result.
Having lost our sand anchor at Quarantine :mad: we had no choice but to drift, and drift we did, all along the flats at the top of Bantry for no flatties damn it.
Decided to re-trace our steps back to Quarantine with a stop at Clontarf to work the flats for a flathead. Not a great plan as it turned out as every plastic was absolute monstered by micro jackets.
Quarantine and Store beaches were chockers with Recreational Boaters :p so we decided to hit the tide change on the troll with the remaining squid. ran a few lengths of North head for touch ups but no solid hook-ups and decided to call stumps.
A bag of Garfish was better than nothing and they cooked up and absolute treat!! Interesting thing was that the trolled garfish took all the kings on the troll with the squid left wondering what it had done wrong.
Tight line fellas,
Byron