Headed out into the Georges this morning to avoid the Hacking boat traffic....a bit more room to escape the %^&*heads:). Bought some live prawns a couple of days ago and kept them a dozen or so alive. Headed to my poddy spot an hour after high tide but they weren't cooperating and I only got a couple. I almost spent the day at the spot when the boat was sitting high and dry on a sand bank with the tide quickly receding but thankfully a couple of kayaks paddled past and helped me wrestle the boast back into deeper water, thanks guys!
Headed up river to one of my favourite deep spots and had one poddy crushed on a drift, possibly a jew? The wind picked up so I headed to another spot to drop a live prawn and and my only poddy. Picked up a small flatty on the prawn but the livey remained untouched. Time to tie some lures on and try another spot. With the electric I trolled a hard body and a blade across a shallow patch of reef and had instant results, picked up a nice flatty on the blade in the 50s. The next hour it was one with a fish every drift. I tied on a bigger HB on my heavier rod and it nailed a couple of flatties in the high 50s and dropped an airborne croc too. Last fish was the best going 75cm and my first croc release of 2023. The release video was hard work as the nor Easter was howling by this time.
Took 4 nice flatties home for the table and glad to have released a nice model. Steering is ratshit so the boat won't be getting wet for a while as I need to change the steering cable before next outing! Happy New Year Raiders!