With complaints from the family of too much of one fish, I was told to go get something new. Haven't really had much luck with different species around the hacking but decided to give live baiting a go today. Early start and loaded up on yakkas at the boat ramp and headed out to Lilli Pilli, forgoing the top of the tide to fish the deep, to troll some yakkas around. Was using a double snell rig, one that I have previously used whilst anchored and caught fish on, first yakka dropped down and did not have time to even put the boat in gear when it buckled over. Short tussle and up came the flattie, biggest one in the hacking for me and was a pain to net solo, and even more of a pain to keep on the brag mat. Sent her back and trolled the drop-off and channels for a few hours and when the sun came fully up I made my way over to Buraneer Bay where a mate of mine has been landing some kings recently. Sent a livie down and trolled between the moored boats managing a tailor probably around the mid 40's which was released, then had a quick flick for squid before picking up a mate to no avail.
Live baiting gear away, picked up a mate, and headed to maianbar to collect some nippers, fished around their for a bit but no fish biting. Headed towards lilli pilli, fishing nippers on the flats with a live bait of the drop-off. Picked up the whiting which went just shy of 40, and plenty of stingrays around. Schools of bait being busted up came past every now and then, managed to get one taker on a sluggo, being a salmon and another one taking a yakka before jumping next to the boat and throwing the bait, hooks and all back at us. Persisted for a while and every so often the live bait rod would start moving around, I had set the drag loose as we were anchored, theory was to let the fish run and then slowly tighten the drag with the circle hooks hopefully finding their mark. Wondering if anyone does it differently? Missed 5 hook-ups doing this so maybe doing something wrong.
Decided to go for one last drift in the rain before heading back, livie got smashed as soon as it hit the bottom, big headshakes and runs then gone. Tiny puncture marks all the way up the yakka and near the head was damaged, not sure what it could've been. Managed the crab then went home. Pretty slow day and just ceviche for dinner.