Broken Bay Leathers.

[Frantic]

Got out last sunday from brooky at about 6.30 headed towards newport for not much

then went back to boultons to do battle with the leathers.All i can say is that they are thick

after about 15 or so drifts we had enough biggest went about 40cm and only lost 2 rigs.

great fun getting double hookups on the one line.5ft6inch ugly stick ,abu 6000,4oz of lead and 10lb line

and a whole lot of winding.

craig

[abiasin]

good feed there mate, well done on the jackets. they seem to be everywhere, a mate off terrigal last weekend also brained them there.

[azza84]

wd mate

[Guest MRS WATTO]

Well done , great report.

[dazzassj6]

oh nice, what a yummy report

[Flightmanager]

Theres plenty of them around at present , we have also brained them in the last 2 weeks. Great eating fish too !!!

Ross

[Penguin]

Top effort thats a fine feed u got there

penguin

[zrealist]

did it take you long to clean those?

i find it quite hard to clean leatherjackets.

[Frantic]

Nope they take about 15 seconds to clean as they havent got much guts in them, just start a cut from

behind the big spike on there head and down towards the rear of the gut cavity. Then lift the skin from

around the cut area with your fingers and pull towards the tail,most of it will come off in the one motion.

It seems they love squid and we just ran out of bait .We threw back about 20 odd as they were just too small. In 40m of water the mid water was full of smaller ones but if your bait could get down to about 30m

you'd get into a few bigger ones. My brother and i cleaned and skinned more than 30 in about 10 minutes.

I'll be out there again this weekend to try and deplete the population .lol