The boys are back in town

'The boys' hit Coronet Bay last weekend. It was a fun-filled weekend tha included some bocce tournaments, wii golf games, cards and of course some fishing.

Quite windy for most of the weekend but managed a few hours on the water saturday morning. 4 in the boat for the first time ever, and apart from driving soooooo slow it was still quite comfortable and handled the conditions well. Naim, Tim, Brad and myself hit the water at a chilly 4am. The fish didn't play the game until about 6am when Tim pulled in a pinkie. In the following hour we missed many bites (Smaller pinkies I think) and kept 4 between 35-40cm.

A move as the outgoing tide slowed to 14m just off French Island saw some great gummy action. Naim scored 2 (See pic) and I scored 1. Naim's best was about 6-7kg. We also pulled in port jackson sharks, banjo sharks, cod and leopard sharks. All on board probably caught between 10-15 fish each (Including the undesirables) except poor old Brad, who didn't trouble the scorers.

Baits used were pilchards and squid, with almost all fish caught on pilchards.

The fish are on but the poll is closed

Went out for a solo session by myself last Tuesday. Hit the water at 6.30pm, off by 8.30pm with a bag-out catch. Only pinkies from 38-49cm (38, 38, 42, 44, 49) but they fed the in-laws who are now happy after 2 years of promising them some fish! Also a few banjoes and port jackson sharks, and had I stayed out after dark I'm sure there were some bigger ones around.
The action was so hot I only sat down once in the 2 hours!
As for the poll, it looks like 'By December' was the main choice, but unfortunately Parksy doesn't have any scheduled trips in the next week so that option is out.
Heading to Sandy Point mid December so might be lucky and hook a red there in amongst the whiting and gummies!

If at first you don't succeed....

The second session of the season today, this time out on Westernport. Hit the water at about 5.15 and headed over to a reef in about 11m of water near snapper rock (Sounded promising!). First run at 6am. By 7am, I had 4 reds, 38cm, 42cm, 44cm and 55cm (About 2kg - See pic) so the first official snapper for the season! It all went a bit quiet after that so we moved the other side of the rock, but nothing for 45 minutes. Headed into Mosquito Channel where the tide was heading out pretty strongly, so we upsized our lead and waited. After a few tentative bites, Dad hooked up solidly to what was a good red - Would Parksy finally land a snapper?????

This questions was answered quite quickly when it went for a head shaking run and snapped his line, just as I was getting the video camera to film it for historical purposes.. Might be time to change the mono after numerous years of wear and tear! Not much after that except 3 15kg Port Jackson Sharks (See pic) and about midday Dad landed a solid 3 foot gummy shark. Rumour has it Glen and Dad launched a couple of hours ago (Keen to get back out there) and have already hooked into some nice pinkies.

Hopefully it will be third time lucky!