With the weather pattern still being “crap”, I have had to resort to quick trips out when the strong easterly starts to die before the strong south westerly comes in.  This means that you can’t fish the optimum times but at least you get out there for a few hours in the middle of the day.  Luckily, the “better half” is keen, and after school drop off it gives us the chance to spend some time together on the water.

Today was one of those days.  Headed out about 9am and went south from Hillarys hugging the coastline in the lee of the easterly.  Once we got to Scarborough we could head due west with the wind at our back to a little lump in 20+ m of water.  It was still a bit windy when we got there, but not too bad.  Minn Kota in, burley out and off we go with a fairly limited timeframe given the strong wind warning for the afternoon.  Also, as we were setting up I noticed a banana peel on the boat – WTF, and my ranting session about this practice put a little dampener on the tranquility.

Great little session though with non-stop action.  We ended up with a good sized harlequin, a couple of sambos >5kg, 4 undersized pinkies, an undersized dhu, an undersized mulla, undersized breaksea, some skippy, a massive sergeant baker, plenty of wrasse & parrot and a mongrel eel.  I think Jill’s banana curse was the fact that the sambos I got on my light gear headed straight for her line and tangled, or cut it off.

Needless to say it only the harlequin that came home, will all others successfully released.  How good is it when you can go out metro nearshore for an hour or two and catch 20+ fish in the middle of the day!

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