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A Big Girl Got Away In Pittwater


fishtime

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With the last few weekends weather being pretty ordinary, I was looking forward to getting on the water this weekend. I headed out early this morning, leaving Parley Bay at 6:00am to catch the low tide at the mouth of the Hawksbury. A number of people had the same idea, as the ramp was pretty busy.

A quiet start, using some leftover frozen prawns, and also working a 3" SP minnow. After only small interest from little snapper inside West head, I gave the prawns a miss, and tried the SPs a little harder. Drifting into Pittwater, I felt up some weight and after a short and rather uneventful fight (true Flathead style), I was looking a quite a large fish :1yikes:, the sort of stuff I have read about here but never really experienced before :drool:. I was by myself, fumbling with the net as the big girl swam quietly under the boat. This was not good ! I attempted to steer her around, but darn it, she lifted her head, gave a little shake, and was goooone straight through the 6lb floro leader :1badmood: Desperately frustrated at losing her, I was also bouyed by the fact that I hooked up in the first place. I estimated her at about 75cm, with a head like a spade. I figured, if caught once, maybe I can catch her again.

A bit further on the drift, and I hook into another flatty. At 40cm I put this one back knowing there are likely to be a few bigger ones about. Next on was a little Frigate (I think thats what it is - see below - size is just under 40cm) caught on a fast retrieve and released - Geez these little guys pull hard on light gear :tease: . Another few flattys, ranging from 15cm to 45cm (the larger being invited home for dinner), a 32cm bream (also coming home for dinner)and a 29cm flounder pulled in on the drift back up Hawksbury (also released), and the great day was coming to an end. I also dropped a few flattys which spat out the hook well before getting boat side - not sure what was going on there !

Not wanting to get too much grief from the :wife: for being gone most of the day, I headed back to the ramp, grabbed a sausage sanga from the local rescue boys at the ramp, and was home by 2:30pm.

What a great day ! Caught another feed of flatty and bream from the new rod & reel - very happy :1prop:

Cheers folks - fishtime. :beersmile::beersmile:

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