Claytons Report.

[Jewhunter]

G'day all.

Went out off shore from the Gold Coast today with Slinky. Conditions were great early on so we sounded some fish, anchored up & set a burley trail in earnest.

Heaps of bait around. Slinky filled the live & dead bait tanks with yakkas in no time.

A couple of undersize snapper later we moved off to the 36 fathom reefs. As we pulled up we spotted a large cobe cruising the surface. I had skillfully tangled Slinky's rod so lobbed a livie out but the fish wasn't interested. Slinky must have taken the file to my hooks after that becuase I couldn't get a fish to stick.

The skipper pulled quite a few more undersized reds while I kept dropping them. The pinkies were returned only to be scoffed by a couple of dolphins that foillowed us everywhere on the 36's.

Did someone mention circle hooks?

We worked bloody hard & moved around heaps using live & dead yakkas, pillies, fresh caught occy tentacles, plastics, lucanus jigs & whatever else we had in the boat.

The final result? Not one fish in the ice box for either of us!!

So the fish you have when you don't catch fish & the report you have when you don't have a report.

Easily our worst day fish wise together but as usual the big fella made me laugh & it was a great day to be out. Thanks for the invite mate.

Cheers,

Grant.

[jewgaffer]

Hi Grant, I think you and Slinky somehow managed to get on the wrong foot on the day and that can happen one way or another and even on a good looking day or night fishing in the seaway....Grant if you and Slinky get a chance to hook up for a fish with Jay at Kingscliff, I'm sure we'll see a much better result next time I spent some time fishing for jew and whiting with Jay in Ballina during the same week in July when Jay won second biggest cobia in the 2005 Ballina Evans Head classic and Jim Bowers won the second biggest whiting fishing with a live beach worm from memory in a seepage lake that also seemed to be loaded with locked in tarwine.....

I hope to be able to catch up with you and slinky sometime during the October school holidays when I go up there with littlejewgaffer to catch up with Jimmy and Jay when I spend a few days or so in Ballina and I'll be driving up from there and staying with relatives in Hervey Bay for a week or so after that....

Cheers

jewgaffer

Edited August 16, 2009 by jewgaffer

[arpie]

Hi Grant & Slinky

Shame that Cobe wasn't insterested in what was offered!!! As they say - A BAD DAY FISHING IS STILL BETTER THAN A GOOD DAY WORKING! So I reckon you had a pretty good day, really!!!

Just as well you didn't hook one of the dolphins, eh??

better luck next time!

cheerio

Roberta

[tide'n'knots]

the northern gurus miss out!!! guess it had to happen sooner or later.

bad luck guys.

pete.

[Hodgey]

It had to happen sooner or later I guess, Grant. On days like that, when the company is scintillating and the weather is fair ... a take-home feed is simply a bonus I reckon God help the piscatorial quarry NEXT time you blokes hit the water; I reckon they're in for a pounding

Cheers

Skip

[Ray R]

Hi Grant, they can only get better from here, still sounds like you and Tony had a fun time out though..