Botany Bay 22/02/10

[HookemDano]

Hi All, Sorry no pictures but I will try and make it as informative as possible.

Went out Monday evening hit Silver beach about 7:30pm, conditions were very choppy and windy, tide was on the way out to a final low at around 9:30ish, bait was the trusty Chicken breast and had to get Servo prawns as a side kick rather then the usual yabbies (none left by the time I arrived at the bait store).

It was very slow for the first 2 hours only landing a pair of bream both nice fat ones at around the 32cm mark (on chicken breast). At around 9:30ish the bite was on now I don't know if this coincided with the the bottoming out of the tide or the sudden drop of wind and I mean all gone, no wind and no chop, very calm, excellent, comfortable, lake like fishing conditions?

All four rods were hit it was an experiance that I haven't had before, I had a rod tangle with another one when I was pulling my fish in, I turned to my dad to help but he was on and bringing his fish in, so I continued to bring my fish in with another line being towed along. Once I got my fish in the boat I gave it to my dad to un hook (his job) while I tried to untangle the line, this wasn't easy as there was a fish tugging away on this as well and then the other rod went off so my dad dropped the fish and hook into the bucket and preceded to bring in that fish, I finally un-tangled and pulled in the last of the 4 rods. All four rods were in the boat and hooked with fish, it was a bit of a mess and frustration started little arguments between me and my dad as the aim was to get a baited hook out there as soon as possible and I thought the best thing to do was to snip the line and re-do the hook as he was removing the hooks to slow.... it took a good 30 minutes to get all 4 back out there because the bite continued and most fish were swallowing the whole kit and so the quickest and humane thing was to snip the hook and re-do the trace and hook.... when you got the chance....

This was great and in no time(so it felt 2 hrs later) we had 14 keepers all bream (not by design) however not one of those other 12 were over the 32cm mark, they were all replicas of each other at around the 28 to 30cm mark, this was the smallest average catch under these condtions (time, place and bait)

Most fish were caught on the prawns and this was the difference i beleive in the size average, where as I normally catch the bigger models on the chicken but for some reason the chicken wasn't much of a hit during the hot bite....