kikila
29-01-06, 08:29 AM
With the reports of good sized kings coming out of Sydney harbour we decided to give the bay a rest, we planed to target squid first up the find some yakkas then try a few of the better known kingie haunts. Not being to familiar with our first attempt at getting some squid was at the kelp beds at quarantine bay where we didn’t get a touch then we moved over to middle head and had a try for squid, again no joy. Trolled around the markers in front of middle head for 2 nice tailor of 40 & 45cm. Then started sounding around for bait schools, found plenty of bait but couldn’t catch bugger all, moved over to the yellow marker at quarantine bay but there must have been 30 boats in tight around it. Deciding to give that a miss, we then trolled up & around north head without getting a hit, tried some bait fishing at north head for a few bottom uglys also tried working some sluggos around and other SP’s without result. Went back to the yellow marker where the boats had thinned a bit the 2 McGills were there as was hookem & cookem. Dropping the pick we decided to try our luck, we had good quality bought squid but none locally fresh caught and never got a touch, as we were retrieving the boat had a talk to a couple of blokes that had been out there & if you didn’t have fresh local squid you weren’t in the hunt.