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FrgdEd
08-01-07, 01:15 PM
Hi all,

Brighton RSL had its monthly Botany Bay fishing comp. on Sunday morning with a turnout of 42 anglers. (12 noon weigh in)
I wasn't lucky enough to get a spot on one of the club boats, so it was landbased bashing for me again.
Given the minimal wind, I hit one of the breakwaters along Grand Parade early and had an ok Day.
Given it was comp day i decided to bait fish as well (as SP), and lucky i did as the bait did most the catching (Pink Nippers/Hawks Prawn).
Sorry to say most catches were throwbacks of Snapper/Bream/Whiting, but I did manage to land a good Bream and Tailor.
The exiting part was when i caught a Yakka.....and thought....Yeah....I might just live bait this sucker!
So I re-rigged and put him out there.
After about five minutes the rod went "BANG, BANG". I grabbed it, set the hook, then listened to the scream of the reel! This thing was big.
Fought it for about 20 minutes, during which it had three good runs of about 60m or so against strong drag. On the third run he busted me off. I was using 12lb line.
I think it was a big King, or maybe Jew, but the fight was different from when i got my last Jew, admittedly that one was only 60cm
Anyway....I was very dissapointed after dropping it. It would have won the comp for sure.:ranting2:
Turned out most anglers had an inconsistant day with many throwbacks.
The winner was a good bag (2.5kg) of Flathead. I came 5th for my Bream/Tailor Combo:smiile: . Best single fish was a 700g Leatherjacket. All fish cleaned, gutted and gilled prior to weigh in.
Sorry - No photos this time.

Ed

TomMc
08-01-07, 01:43 PM
sounds like a fun day, shame bout that fish but
:beerchug:
Tom

imnotafish
08-01-07, 04:15 PM
Hey Ed, what was the fight like?
Were the runs head thumping or just straight and hard.
20 minutes on a King would be unusual - they r hard and fast but short lived fighters...!!!
Might have been a very big salmon, possibly a jewy, or maybe even a shark??
Sounds like it was fun what ever the case!

FrgdEd
08-01-07, 05:19 PM
It was hard and fast....and then when it wasn't running, it just felt like an extremely heavy weight. Before the second run it actually charged towards me.

Ed

TomMc
08-01-07, 06:40 PM
ive had ray's that have given me a run before??? maybe it was a big ray???
:beerchug:
Tom

imnotafish
08-01-07, 07:36 PM
ive gotta say i was also thinking that.......
but a ray that eats a yakka is a decent size ray thats 4 sure.
was it a big yakka?
thinking it more so now that you say it was a heavy weight when it wasnt moving. Big rays are hard to move when they're flat on the ground, and they run fast and smoothly and have heaps of energy for long runs.....

TomMc
08-01-07, 07:40 PM
ive seen rays around the width of my boat come up with the anchor so im pretty sure they can take yakkas
:beerchug:
Tom

dkfisher
08-01-07, 11:33 PM
does sound like a ray or maybe a big banjo shark have caught those in botany bay near the run way (i think they were banjos bloody looked like it) and the biggest rays in sydney would have to be in salt pan creek they are huge took us 2 hours to drag one in had to be about a 1 and a half meters across great fun but