Yesterday was the first time that we could test the Shore Catch mulie shred over a day’s solid fishing Perth Metro.  It was the MAAC comp, and only the fourth one for the year as four have had to be cancelled due to strong wind warnings (over consecutive Saturdays!).  Conditions were generally excellent, but the NE was blowing early.  We headed to the high 30’s first up, which was a change for us as we usually catch the inshore species first waiting for the wind to drop before heading further.

You can’t leave the marina until 7am so we arrived at our ground about 7.30am.  As I have described before, we just get to the general area and sound up the fish then spot lock the Minn Kota.  We evaluate the bite and if it is suitable, the shred and burley is then deployed to a few metres off the bottom.  The thing we learned from this trip is there is no doubt the shred improves the bite (we did the “no-shred / shred” test).  We got fish all day, and my highlight was the big mulloway that was picked up mid-morning.

The bite was fierce.  We moved around a bit to maximise the number of species, and to occasionally get away from schools of big sambos.  Dean picked up this horse, that weighed in at 25kg+ and it was time to move on.

Dean ended up with 10 species for the day, and I got 7.  The fish were:  Mulloway, Red Snapper, Queen Snapper, King George Whiting, Flathead, Skipjack Trevally, Tarwhine, Sand Whiting, Garfish and Samson Fish.  There were plenty of pinkies, dhuies, baldies and black arse but none were "keeping" size - released in good condition.  We threw heaps of fish back and only kept the larger models and/or those on the list that could be weighed in.  We could have easily bagged out for more weight but we only took what we would use.  Can’t complain about this bunch of tasty ones (the esky lid is 730mm).

Another awesome day.  The shred is an excellent product and, as per FW Member’s requests, we will make our first delivery to Rockingham tomorrow (Compleat).  It is definitely ready for the wider market.