Cowan's On Fire !

[FletcherG1991]

i dont write reports all that often but i thought this was a special occasion

we went down the boat friday night and came home at 8:00 tonight

on Friday i tried for a few squid and got one put it out as a livie and got smashed by tailor so decided to head inside and watch a DVD instead

on saturday thing really got interesting. we went into the mud flats to try and get some squid at the drop off but nothing, although we did get a numbfish and a few hits on the SP, we headed back to the boat and put some large baits out for jewies got taken by a moray eel and into the rocks put a small bit of tuna and droped it down to to see what was about ..... heaps of tailor ranging from tiny little 20cm guys up to big 50cm guys ..... had a ball with them for a few hours (didn't keep any) and then i had something different on ..... i wasn't sure what it was but it put up a great fight ..... then to my suprise my first jewie pops up although only small i didn't care it was my first ! after that i got onto some flounder, more tailor, bream, small snapper, yellowtail and rays ..... as night came the tailor kept coming and so did the squid there where literally hundereds swimming in and out of the spotlight ..... we caught 17 small bait size ones and 4 larger good eating size one ..... we stayed up till 1:30 in the morning sight casting them but they where hard to get in between getting squid i was still getting tailor and another small jew and another ray and more tailor and just as i was about to go to bed ..... another small jew ! ..... WHAT A NIGHT !

on sunday the tailor where still around so i decided to head into the flats i got whiting, bream and flatties on the SP

and thats my weekend ! one of the better fishing trips in a while

and i also snapped my favourite rod!!

pictures to come tommorrow morning

[ophet]

Sounds like you had an awesome time on the weekend, would have been a great sight to see the squid swarm around your boat light. I have never been squiding at night before, it would be pretty cool to see something like that.

Congrats on your first Jew. I really like eating fresh Tailor, top that with some nice Cowan squid, you have a pretty good feed.

Thanks for posting and sharing.

[Guest Saqa]

good action there mate. Great to see cowan firing.

[FletcherG1991]

well as promised here are the pics

jewie number 2

jewie number 1

jewie number 3

yes i do look like and idiot in the pics but i was excited

gotta love fishing cowan

Edited November 12, 2006 by FletcherG1991

[FletcherG1991]

the 2nd jewie only a better pic

my favourite rod broken

i hope i can get a replacment top half or fix it

Edited November 12, 2006 by FletcherG1991

[insolent]

Hey Fletcher, nice work and a top days fishing. What happened to the rod?

Cheers

Evil

[FletcherG1991]

well the line was caught around the tip of the rod so i untwisted it from around the tip and snap

i wasn't bending it to far or anything that i hadn't done before and it broke ..... i just hope they sell replacment top halfs for this rod

[Flattieman]

Sounds like an AWESOME weekend... Good to see some of the next generation jewies around too! A session like that on squid is like a dream...

Flattieman.