Putting The Boat To The Test!

[shefford]

Well on friday arvo at work heading home we heard the fishing and weather report on the radio.

Flat, light winds and not a cloud in the sky

Rang me mate to go buy me some pillies as i hate buying block pillies from servos

Set off at 5.30am and heading out the bar at around 5.50am after some muck abouts.

Bait: 4 bags of pillies, 12 tailor fillets, frozen yellow tail

Hit up the local reef just outside and was getting stuff all, a few moses and small perch,

some nice barracudas i was eyeing up for bait and lots of bream.

We stocked up on some livies and headed out to another reef, we havn't caught much here in previous attempts.

Been to this reef (2 times) and marked a good spot where we had some decent bites but no action.

Chucked the livies out the back on 40lb mono with 80lb mono trace...

Continued fishing with our bottom bashing rigs, and put a non weighted pillie into the berley stream (as i read off this site )

We were getting bit off left right and centre, they were hitting our tailor fillets, barracuda chunks and pillies with single big bites and biting through 40lb mono leader on our bottom bashing rigs.

Next thing u know our livie out the back the rod bends in half and the reel screams and stops...

Mate winds up the reel to see the line left with no hooks, bitten off again.

We were all screaming by this point at frustration, loaded up the floating pillie and the livie rigs with 80lb steel trace.

Same thing happens moments later instead the steel tracing got mashed and all the casing was destroyed, but it didn't hook up, (had no stinger hook), so put a stinger hook out

Moments later it got hit again and had another bit of a run, wind it up and the bite just missed the leader+ stinger hook

Floating pillie rig got hit as well hard and bent the steel trace brace where it holds the hook and tore that out

Then after much time and lots of breams/moses perch we managed to get a few small snappers between the re-riggin of all the munched lines/traces.

Still have no idea what hit us, maybe cobia as we saw a few around last week, but still no idea?

Below: my first lil gnobby snapper

Not much to look at(the fish) but i was happy

Edited May 17, 2008 by iricangi

[james1990]

Gday mate

We were out today aswell...im just about to write up a report... you would have passed us trolling around the seaway breakwalls on your way out.

Nice work on the nobby.

cheers james

[Steve07]

Good report there mate & looks like you were out there in top conditions too.

Badluck on losing so many fish to bite offs,sounds like maybe spotted or

spanish mackerel hitting the baits,as they have razor sharp teeth & cut

through mono line with ease.I think cobia wouldn't bite through mono

very easy & a shark would have you hooked up for a while before

being cut off.

Your luck might change next trip out there,with one of those big fish

in the boat.

cheers

Steve