After a morning of soccer boot & food shopping and with one eye on the weather, I got home to find Seabreeze was reading the wind had dropped right off. I asked my five year old Hugo if he was keen for an hour or two out on the yak and he was so we packed up and hit the Georges just before the tide bottomed out.
With one rod each, I gave Hugo my fav ZX30 that he had success with a fortnight ago and I tied on a special lure...Hodgey had sent me up a pack of 5 lures that he no longer uses for flatty trolling. I picked out a pink and orange Nilsmaster from his selection and we pedalled over to my sneaky low tide spot, with Hugo perched on the Outback’s front hatch.
On the second pass, my new Stradic was screaming and I explained to Hugo that he needed to reel in his lure, After an initial run of about 50m, I turned the Outback and chased the fish. It turned and headed toward the deeper water near a pontoon, then held the bottom with some good head shakes. I turned the yak again and the little guy was a bit worried as he didn’t want a big jewey in the yak with us. I managed to get up onto the flats and the fish came with me. In 4’ of water I had the beast under the yak and just as my leader knot appeared above the surface, a violent headshake ended the episode.
I would have loved to have landed it but the decision to use 10lb leader on my rod and 14lb on my son’s may have been fatal. Still, it was a great event and similar to another lost one in the same spot 3 weeks ago. Sorry no pics but I did have the little guy on the phone to my wife for the last 30 seconds of the battle. I will discuss this further with Hodgey, no doubt!