G'day raiders,
Just back from a few days up at Nelson Bay, could've picked a better few days to be honest. Weather was a bit ordinary Sunday, Monday and only came good yesterday afternoon. Managed to sneak away yesterday afternoon to Shoal Bay for a quick flick but I think there must've been some little Tailor around; every plastic eventually came back without a tail! Never hooked a thing.
Got up this morning and headed down to the break wall for a few hours and managed a solid 30cm Bream on first cast then the wolds smallest Leatherjacket on the second cast then nothing for about an hour............then I really got a workout.
I was fishing 2 rods; one with a squid & prawn paternoster and one with unweighted prawn. All of a sudden the one with the paternoster rod doubled over. After I struck into it it felt like a dead weight and I thought it was a big sting ray then it woke up and took off, pealing 8kg line like crazy. Whatever it was went about 100m into the Marina then turned and headed about 100m in the other direction out into open water. It surfaced once and thrashed violently on the surface before heading round the break wall . As I stumbled to get off the rocks and onto the footpath to chase it I must've got snagged and the line snapped. I'm guessing it was a decent Kingy, when it broke the surface it looked to be at least 60cm and it gave me the runaround for a good 15mins.
After that...nothing, so I packed up headed back to accommodation.
If it was indeed a Kingy it was my first and I've now got the bug. I can't believe the awesome power and speed this thing had, it definitely caught me rather than me it.
Cheers,
Scotty.