Hey guys, had a few days off this weekend so my best mate and I decided to head down to down the bay to Rye for a few days on the water. Our goal was to bring back a fair bit of fish for the freezer so we decided to Target flathead and gummies the first day and whiting and squid the next.

First day went really well, got about 12 good sized flatties ranging between 35 and 62cm. The 62cm was the biggest I have seen caught in the bay so we were wrapped with that. Probably caught around 40 odd all up, but we like to release anything under 35cm.

Next mission was to go get a gummy, neither Ben or I had caught a gummy except on a charter boat so we were a little sceptical leading up to the tide change.. We fished through the last hour of the tide catching a few rays, banjo sharks and port jacksons but still no sign of our gummy. We were loosing confidence and thinking that we'd miss out again when we got the mother of all tangles, pretty much every rod was involved except one which had to be pulled out of the rod rack and left at my feet. While we untangled the lines I looked down and lucklily remembered to back off the drag.. seconds later.. BANG!! Knew it was a gummy straight away as it went for the anchor rope (which it got wrapped up in). Finally got it aboard for our first gummy on our own. We were wrapped (went just over 6kgs).

To top is all off, about 20 minutes later Ben snagged one aswell that was just a little smaller than mine which we released. Day one a success!!

Next day we were going to target some whiting and squid, had a pretty good day out again with about 17 good sized KG's and our bag of squid which is 20 in Victoria.. So we ended up getting into every fish we wanting too and came home with a heap of fresh fish and our first gummy which was sooooooooooo good!!

My share of the fish which we split four ways

Good weather, awesome fishing, great weekend!!

Thanks for reading!

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