Whom went out on the weekend?

Had an early trip out on Saturday morning with my old man and the deckie dog after seeing the pics of those nice pinky's during the week. In the water at 0630 and at the top end of Garden Island.

Started in 7m of water and drifted into 12m on the first run with plenty of small nibbles. Sent back up to the top of the run and drifted again. I knew i had a good slick running as you could smell it going back into the wind (2 cans of cat food).

2nd run had a big fat wrasse and a double hook up. Mine went limp on the second pull, but my Dad managed to get his to the surface. Nice big fat NW blowie....

After a few unfortunate blows to the head, it bit through the line.

Re-baited and within a few moments, Dad was on again with the same result. A couple of more blows to the head it was gone again.

That was all we got to the boat in two hours.

I was fishing with chunks of Mackerel on a double hook setup, with a herring on a gang out the back.

When it was time to finish up, the herring was half chewed.

Anyone else go out and have any luck in Challenger Passage (between GI and CI)? There were a few boats about.

 


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LOL, unfortunate blows to the

Mon, 2014-03-31 18:44

LOL, unfortunate blows to the head..... yes, they seem to have a head worthy of some panel beating haha. I remember when I was younger, tryin to get past the blowies, if they weren't puffed up then jumped on, they went back without a tail fin haha, bloody things

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