imnotafish
13-02-08, 06:15 PM
Hey Guys,
Went for a spin tues on Pete Le Blangs new boat - Wildfish1, with Pete and a couple of mates...... Cant say enough for how well his boat rides in less than ideal conditions. When we left the mouth of Pitty 6am after getting a few livies - the forecast was for 5knts and 1m swell. the only worry was short period waves (we thought). 5 miles out and the waves were getting a bit whitecapped, prob 12-15kts and the seas were lumpy as, but the boat ate it up so we kept going. 10 miles out it was worse but we were nearly at the Broken Bay fisheries FAD (which is there as it was last week) so we kept on running... got there, few passes with the lures hooked up one fish only, so after 1/2 hr went for a bash with the livies. Bloody hard fishing getting thrown all over the boat with waves coming from every direction but the instant hookups stopped anyone from caring. Similar to last week fish wise, with 11 keeper fish between 4 of us by 10.30am. Most fish were from 60-65cms with a couple of bigger ones scattered in.
Left there then cos the conditions were so lumpy and wind had hit about 25kts (thanks seabreeze), so trolled back in to find a few patches of fat as stripeys - bit of fun on light gear and great bait for the next mission. Cleaned the dollies to find decomposing pillies, small pufferfish and baby leatheries inside the guts.....
Anyway came back in to pitty and had a bit of a downrig for kings to pass the arvo but the putrid brown water made things very hard... Scored a few choppers and a small king but there wasnt much action. A bottom bash at the end picked up a nice flounder as well, and we were all done and stoked with the day.
(Picks to come)
Stef
Went for a spin tues on Pete Le Blangs new boat - Wildfish1, with Pete and a couple of mates...... Cant say enough for how well his boat rides in less than ideal conditions. When we left the mouth of Pitty 6am after getting a few livies - the forecast was for 5knts and 1m swell. the only worry was short period waves (we thought). 5 miles out and the waves were getting a bit whitecapped, prob 12-15kts and the seas were lumpy as, but the boat ate it up so we kept going. 10 miles out it was worse but we were nearly at the Broken Bay fisheries FAD (which is there as it was last week) so we kept on running... got there, few passes with the lures hooked up one fish only, so after 1/2 hr went for a bash with the livies. Bloody hard fishing getting thrown all over the boat with waves coming from every direction but the instant hookups stopped anyone from caring. Similar to last week fish wise, with 11 keeper fish between 4 of us by 10.30am. Most fish were from 60-65cms with a couple of bigger ones scattered in.
Left there then cos the conditions were so lumpy and wind had hit about 25kts (thanks seabreeze), so trolled back in to find a few patches of fat as stripeys - bit of fun on light gear and great bait for the next mission. Cleaned the dollies to find decomposing pillies, small pufferfish and baby leatheries inside the guts.....
Anyway came back in to pitty and had a bit of a downrig for kings to pass the arvo but the putrid brown water made things very hard... Scored a few choppers and a small king but there wasnt much action. A bottom bash at the end picked up a nice flounder as well, and we were all done and stoked with the day.
(Picks to come)
Stef