Jb Action (or Lack There Of)

[lennon_2101]

Hi guys,

Had the week off work last week and ventured down to JB for the first time in my mates boat.

Hit the water about 930pm sunday night and we were greeted by a howling NE which made life very difficult! Headed round to Longnose and found a bit of shelter, but as expected no fish. About 1am decided to pull the pin and catch a bit of shut eye. Now let me tell you, we weren't expecting it too be so damn cold and 3 blokes huddled into a half cab isn't the world's most comfortable place to sleep.

5am we rise, pick up a good haul of good sized yakkas and prepare ourselves for our journey out to the banks. But much the same as the night before, the wind had different ideas. About a quarter of the way out decided it was too dicey and turned around. Found a good swarm of birds going beserk just outside the heads so we proceeded to follow them aimlessly for the next 3 hours to no avail!

Got sick of that and headed in to have a go around the tubes. and you guessed it, still nothing!

After almost 18 hours on the water with not so much as a run we decided to cut our loses and take off.

Gave Ulladulla a try the next day. Headed out to the kingie grounds and once again the weather had other ideas. Possibly the worst conditions that I have ever been out in. We lasted about an hour and a half before the guts started skirming and headed back in.

With our week of fishing looking more like a week of drinking we managed to save some pride and got a nice catch of salmon from the rocks off the back of crampton island at lake tabourie using the fresh prawns we had caught the night before in a drunken stupor! biggest salmon was just on 80cm and was great fun from the rocks.

Had one last crack at JB on our way back to sydney friday but once again the NE had us pushing the proverbial up hill. Managed to atleast get to Drum & Drumsticks but again had nothing to offer!

2 positives to come out of the trip were the amount of marine life seen (the waters were alive with everything but fish!!!!), honestly reckon we saw about 15 whales and couldn't even begin to count the seals and of course the fact that we weren't at work!

I'd be happy to hear if any raiders had more luck down that way last week or if everyone had the same problem!

heres hoping JB is a bit more welcoming of us next time around!

[Flightmanager]

Thanks for the report , Im heading down that way next week, hope the fish have returned by then !!

Ross

[MrGenius]

Sounds like the last few times ive been down there also completely dead with water temp still around the 16 degree mark.

[Ironbark]

I'm heading doen to Edan with the famaily tommorow for a week hope fully the fish will be biteing then