Gday Raiders,
was greeted by a beautiful sunrise this morning as I headed out for a fish.
First hit the bait grounds and loaded up on livies.
Decided to try trolling along Kurnell cliffs - slow trolled a large slimie for an hour for nothing.
Headed up to maroubra area but not much happening around there either - just a 40cm morwong and 34cm pannie - both released. Drift was fast at 4klm/h & no baitfish.
Left to try out deep where I had caught some large flatties in the past. Picked up a nice 55cm blue spot to take home.
Then back down jibbon way to try the local flatty drift - hooked 2 fish pretty quick in succession, but got cut off by green toads on the way up. Didn’t want to play that game today, so left to chase kings instead.
I drop down a 25cm yakka and it gets grabbed within 30 seconds. Fish does some nice runs and I get it up within a meter of the surface - can see it’s around 80cm, then my line snaps above the swivel. Line must of scraped on reef at some point during the morning and I didn’t notice.
I was also down to my last two yakkas. Chuck out another and a chunky 70cm fish comes up - which I decide to keep.
I try and catch more yakkas, but there’s too many kings around making them skittish. I did manage to catch two after trying for half an hour. One jumped to freedom out of my hand as I was about to rig it. The second wasn’t so lucky and only lasted a minute as another king grabbed it - around 65-70cm, released.
Plenty of kings, but hard to catch bait.
called it a day.