Fishing The Peak And Surrounds

[ACZ]

Got a later start than usual-730 was on the water- not an enormous wait at the boat ramp which i found unusual 4 a public holiday ...anyway- headed out the heads trolled along the cliff up to malabar in search of fresh bait (mac tuna) no luck, next headed to a spot in 60m of water off coogee catching only one mowie .By 930 decided to head to the peak, not that many boats out there either, fished a spot NW of the peak in about 77m of water and caught 4 mowies, one good sea perch. listened 4 any news of the dolllies on the radio but only heard the charter boat operators saying that they were having a slow day... .... put out a spread and trolled from the peak to the fad no luck- did a few passes and still nothing even though the water was 23.7 degrees >stopped next to the fad and burleyed nothing still!....as we drifted away from th fad the sounder showed a good reading...thought maybe kings?!....dropped down a bait got a solid hookup... it gave a bit of curry at the beginnng and then the quick tailbeats of a leathery! were felt...few minutes later sure enough a leathery about 1.5kg was pulled aboard....not wanting to lose gear and to lazy to change to wire dropper headed 4 home round 1230....all in all a good day on the water (weather wise) but still pretty slow with a lot of water in btn fish!!

anyone else have any luck today??????

cheers

alex

Edited April 14, 2006 by ACZ