shallow water fun
Decided on thursday to hit up some shallow water spots early friday morning.
So we launched the boat at 430 am and off we went.
pulled up at the spot at around 440 sounded around untill we found the fish and set the anchor on a 5 m deep lump.
the boat settled so i set out a bait and started cutting mulies when WHAM the rod was off , i set the hooks and the fight was on . withing minutes i had a nice dhuie boatside which went 62 cm on 15lb gear.
Fairly content witht he first cast i laughed with my brother and said imagine if i backed it with another , when all of a sudden the rod was alive again , this time the fish was not so big but still another dhuie was in the boat took a few piks and off he went , this one went 49 cm.
the rest of the morning got really interesting getting bricked 6 times using up to 80lb leaders in the end but that was still no match for these brute snapper (confirmed snapper after seing more than one of them before they took off for the bottom .)
as soon as the sun came up the skippy were on and as i needed a few big baits for sliding we kept a few, the interesting thing here was they would not hit anything other than berkly 3" power minnows in pearl watermellon but hey who's complaining as artificials are more fun anyways.
After an hour of playing with skippy we went in the hunt of squid and had 12 nailed in less than an hour with bright orange berkly squid jigs being a stand out favourite .
All in all a very easy and productive morning and to have it all done in a 10 ft tinny made it even more fun and proved that you dont need big boats for quality fish.
Brenz
Joodles
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That's a sweet session mate.
That's a sweet session mate. Nice work.
sea-kem
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Nice work!
Nice work!
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scottland
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nice work mate
was the biger one dispatced to te esky?
i support two teams eagles and whoever is playing the dockers
grayzeee
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good goingdo you always sound
good going
do you always sound up the fish first as opposed to burleying them up, and how long do you spend looking ??
what was your guesstimate on the size of the unstoppable pinkies?
If I spent half as long fishing , as I do reading this bloody forum , I'd be twice the fisherman I am.
fisherking
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Fark Yeah!! Well done.
Fark Yeah!!
Well done. Awesome.
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metroLBfisher
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where abouts did you launch
where abouts did you launch from mate? sounds like an awsome shallow session!
Good things come to those who bait
brenz
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NOR mate. Grayzee i will
NOR mate. Grayzee i will usually sound up the fish and then really minimal burley i.e just enough to get them feeding . as for the guestimate for the unstopables , i dont really know and i wouldnt have a a responsible guess size , although the one we did see was a very large specimen
jb1
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dinghy
What size and type of dinghy are you going out in, im in the hunt for one now.
Cheers
Ian Macca
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Awesome very jelous, thanks
Awesome very jelous, thanks for sharing!