Showstopper
11-12-05, 07:52 PM
I was hoping to do a report for yesterday and today... however after getting the boat and gear ready on friday night and getting up at 3:30am with my old man... we got the boat on the back of the car did our pretrip checks and guess what... No brake lights on either boat or car... After 30mins of tesing bulbs etc we decided to head back to bed... After discovering and reparing the problem we headed out to botany and were on the water in favoured drifting spot @ 5am looking for flatties...
Unfortunately for the first few hours neither the elements or the fish co-operated... Drizzling rain at times and minimal bites between 5am and 11am... Despite using dead baits, live baits and soft plastics and moving spots about 10 times around the bay we totalled 12 squire, 2 undersized bream and a 35cm whiting which is smelling lovely @ present....
At 11am after the clouds overlooking sydney bleakened and the wind picked up... It was decided that we try the flats and gutters around the lower georges... Plus it made getting to the boat ramp alot faster incase we needed to haul butt....
Well at 11:30 the clouds moved and the flatties and everything else hit the deadbaits... Between 11:30 and 2pm we pulled in about 10 lizards ranging between 30cm to 55cm.... all but a 45cm and 50cm flatheads being released... also released a few tailor and handful of whiting... My dad hooked up on freight train around the red marker between Tom ugly's and captain's cook bridges which from the rod holder to the fight being over lasted all over 20 seconds before the leader was broken.... I was guessing either possible kingie of maybe a crusing jew or even monster flattie as the bait was a strip of squid but unfortunately neither of us saw it with our eyes... We tried the same drift about 6 times hoping for a rematch but didnt evenuate....
All in all a little perservance paid off with a god day had by all and another story of the one that got away....
Unfortunately for the first few hours neither the elements or the fish co-operated... Drizzling rain at times and minimal bites between 5am and 11am... Despite using dead baits, live baits and soft plastics and moving spots about 10 times around the bay we totalled 12 squire, 2 undersized bream and a 35cm whiting which is smelling lovely @ present....
At 11am after the clouds overlooking sydney bleakened and the wind picked up... It was decided that we try the flats and gutters around the lower georges... Plus it made getting to the boat ramp alot faster incase we needed to haul butt....
Well at 11:30 the clouds moved and the flatties and everything else hit the deadbaits... Between 11:30 and 2pm we pulled in about 10 lizards ranging between 30cm to 55cm.... all but a 45cm and 50cm flatheads being released... also released a few tailor and handful of whiting... My dad hooked up on freight train around the red marker between Tom ugly's and captain's cook bridges which from the rod holder to the fight being over lasted all over 20 seconds before the leader was broken.... I was guessing either possible kingie of maybe a crusing jew or even monster flattie as the bait was a strip of squid but unfortunately neither of us saw it with our eyes... We tried the same drift about 6 times hoping for a rematch but didnt evenuate....
All in all a little perservance paid off with a god day had by all and another story of the one that got away....