One Of Those Days....

[tentonner]

Gday raiders,

Hit the harbour this morning (not too early, around 8) hoping to get in to some fish. Plan was to catch a heap of live bait and hopefully convert in to a solid kingy or two, however this morning was a shocker for me. Spent 45 mins trying to raise some yakkas without so much as a touch or any signs of life on the sounder. So decided to stay inside middle harbour and try soak a few frozen baits for a bream or a trevally. Well the wind was making things impossible, spent the next hour trying to drift pilchards down a berley trail with no weight and the bail arm open, no matter what I did however, the boat was swinging from side to side on the anchor and all three lines seemed to make a beeline for the prop. Had to deal with innumerable tangles and eventually gave it up thinking perhaps North Head would be the go, get there in reasonable time (while it was very windy and choppy there was basically no swell) started trolling two deep diving rapalas and a skirt and in two minutes I get a hit on a rapala, the line instantly went slack and it turned out my braid to mono knot had slipped, $25 rapala lure straight to the bottom because I had tied a crappy knot, persisted however and once again the exact same thing happened on a different rod. That was enough for me

All in all a shocking morning for me unfortunately

Hopefully next weekend Ill do better

Thanks raiders

[cruisecraft]

Hi tentonner,

Try uni knots joining braid to mono. Better luck next time. Looks like salmon are about (usually at the heads)see report by fishraider mgj and ganymede.

Regards Kit

Edited August 21, 2010 by cruisecraft