That Shallow Stuff

Out this morning we were greeted with "white horses" for a good part of the whole morning.

Fishing the 25m mark for King george, just behind 3 mile reef.

First couple of drifts we did without a drift anchor, and it was impossible to hold bottom, and it was a pretty big chop about 1m at this stage.

After slowing down are drift we started to get onto a few fish, but nothing huge.

Undersize pinkies, skippy and other reef creatures were pretty common. Persisting we managed to bag a few more reef fish and a small sambo, which proved fun on the light gear.

A few more drifts and we had foxfish, 1 Kg, a few undersize dhuies, leatherjacket. And finally we hooked upto what we though was a decent fish, with a 15min fight, a big ray came into view...

Finished the day catching more small pinkies, gold spotted sweetlip, skippy and wrasse.

Released majority of the fish, but came home with a feed.


alfred's picture

What do the wrasse taste

Sun, 2008-02-10 20:19

What do the wrasse taste like?

 

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Hi Ya, Absolute mongrels

Wed, 2008-02-13 19:40

Hi Ya,

 

Absolute mongrels to clean 'cause they are so slippery, but personally, I don't mind them.  Quite a mild flavour.

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Dean's picture

Dunno, the dhufish like

Sun, 2008-02-10 20:20

Dunno, the dhufish like them... and so do the neighbours

Colin Hay's picture

Not a bad day

Mon, 2008-02-11 07:52

Good mixture there Dean

mako magic's picture

nice feed there dean, was a

Mon, 2008-02-11 08:49

nice feed there dean, was a pretty ordinary day wind wise yesterday and a even worse day fish wise