Rose Bay 17/04/2006

[insolent]

Hello Fishos (This is my first report, apologies for the lack of photos but the bream just didn't seem too exciting after the morning action)

Yesterday myself and two friends (Mick and Mikey) took advantage of the long weekend and went for a fish at Rose Bay. My idea was to try out my new Berkley Dropshot rod flicking some soft plastics for flathead and doing a little squid jigging. No luck on the squid jigging or the soft plastics. I switched to squid bait and the next thing the little reel with 6lb Fireline was screaming away I lost the kingie to some structure but had some fun for a few minutes. Mick was next on and he got the kingie to the wharf and in sight before it spat the hook, the king fish was probably about 70cms. I was next on, this time on the other rod which had 14lb braid and a 20lb leader all was going well and I was actually getting line back, the fish was out in the open then a charter operator on the next wharf down decided to take his boat straight out over my line. There was no reason for this as he could have just backed out from the wharf and missed us completely, although the skipper couldn't have heard me in the cabin the eight or so passengers and the deckie looked fairly embarrassed as I swore like a trooper and berated them from the wharf. Make no mistake if someone cut him off while he was anchored up he would be more than irate himself, you'd think being a fisherman as well he'd be a little more observant and considerate, I don't mind losing fish but prefer not to have help from third parties especially when kingies are involved. I had one final hook up on the light reel and lost it after losing a good 80 yards of line, I could feel the king hit structure on the bottom and then the line cut. We did catch 3 legal bream 26 (me), 28 (Mikey) and 30cms (me) and had an absolute ball but it would have been nice to land one of the kings. I will try again and ensure that I'm not outgunned next time, however I was surprised how the Dropshot rod went (rated 1-3 kgs) against the kings for a light rod it sure held its own.

Cheers

Chris

[Sammy]

Hey Chris.. bad luck on that front mate but that's one of the disadvantages of fishing light line.. I like it as well and have been smoked many times but every now and then you win one as well.Keep at it

[pk-fishn]

theres plenty of ignorant people these days you just have to ignore them and keep on fishin!!!

nice work on the bream and kingy hookups good effort from the wharf!!

cheers pk