Long Reef 14/01

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Gidday all,

Put in the ramp at Longreef at 0700 launching by myself,not recommended for the light hearted as there was a considerable surge on and I ended up having to get the boat out past the break,throw the anchor out and then swim back in to move the car and trailer from the ramp,was it all worth it I was thinking as I hoped back on board with a wet arse!!.

It was fairly calm in the "Bay" but as soon as you got out past the gutters to the east there was a solid 2-3m due north swell that was pumping over white rock bombie,doing the now you see me ,now you dont thing.to top it off there was a 15 knot sou'easter that was capping up forming a 1m chop ,all this combined with 1.5 knot current made up what as known as a shitty washing machine.Anchoring and cubing was a silly idea so I clipped on a CD -11 red head and a CD-14 mackeral blue and set tup trolling in the same area as last week (same GPS coords),I got about 50m away and off goes the red head ,being in 80ft of water I was not overly concerned and just kept the boat going ahead hoping for a double.I was being greedy I guess handling two kings at the same time is lots of fun,should have known better as the fish found the bottom and I was done like a dinner in about 15 secounds flat. SHIT says I as,that was 15kg fire line with an honest 5kgs of pressure ,let alone that I was down a near new rapala and BB swivel!!.Knowing that 15kg fireline breaks around the 24kg mark I then cranked the drag up on the CD-14 to 12kgs and on the brand new CD-9 (green mackeral) figuring that if I hook up agian that I will head out for deeper water at a rate of knots. All this happening in rough water was making me very green but I perservered and sure enough I hooked up on the next run,this one on the CD -14 with the "improved drag".The fish honestly pulled off about two inches of line and then came screaming out of the water like a mandarin seed,instant skip baits was the thought looking at them,the kingfish was a whisker under 60cm so I let him and the following 3 fish all go. .

I gave in after then heading in to calmer water to drift for flathead ,sucumbing to the mal de mer was not a part of the party plan so that lasted all of two dry heaves before heading back to the ramp to right the day off.

A little bit dissapointing that trip was ,still it was a bit of fun and rates about thirty times better than being at work as some of you poor bastards are. .

By the way, i was on sydney harbour on tuesday as max jonno piked out due to work commitments.There is consistant schools of large 14'slimeys and cowanyoung at S 33' 49.435 E 151'16.664.

These bait schools are pretty easy to find,just get to that spot and then commence a run to the bouy anchored off north head.A sand pick is all that is needed but just keep in mind that any large ship uses that area to turn around in,the last one was a little close and I was eyeing off the knife with the ship giving me the old 5 blasts telling me to leave ...like NOW.

There was a lot of rat kings around the N head bouy with one boat (mud guts) ,saying they had hooked up on 16 ,there was a few amberjacks mixed in as well to keep things interesting.There was the worlds supply of boats clustered aroud the bouy so I decided to take the slimeys for a swim out the front of north head.

I was buried twice with the hooks pulling on the third fish,came back in to reload the bait tank but as the NE wind was starting to pump.I just had a bit of fun with the rats with some squid that I picked up at a secret spot.then back to rosebay at 1.00.

that was a better day then LR on thursday.

Going out trolling for marlin on Max jonnos boat on Saturday to Browns and beyond ,will let you all know.

simon

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throw the anchor out and then swim back in to move the car and trailer from the ramp

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One question....where did you put your keys/alarm pad?????

Now thats a great report...complete with GPS marks...All I need is a GPS now.

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Yeah great report. I liked the details about the weather, made it easy for me to finalise my plans for tomorrow