Botany Bay

[johnv]

got up early friday mornin 4am weather was good so headed out to botany, water was flat so we headed straight outside trolling lures for about 2hrs head down the coast with no hook ups.Then wonderd a couple of kms of shore for some snapper with no luck there,then we started doing the drifts around and started getting some very under size flatties never seen that many little ones before any way treid another couple of drifts and came across some bigger & legal ones. we got a total 15 flatties & 1 sweep , we also got about 20 nannigais but threw all back due to bein way to small. At about 2 pm the we started trolling lures around the head land to only catch some smelly pikes got back into the bay & wind statred to blow harder we ended up back at ramp all in all had a great day out fishing got back home & had some flatties for tea on the BBQ

cheers john

[james7]

It's hard to beat a good feed of fresh flatties on the BBQ!

Top catch John.

What depth did you find most of the flatties?

How far south did you go, and did you see any bait schools while you were trolling?

Cheers

Peter

[coasty1]

Jeepers did ya leave any in there for others,going of mate:1yikes:

[Hodgey]

Great work John That'll make a beaut feed on the bbq. Enjoy with a few

Cheers

Hodgey

[newbiebreamhunter]

good work john, nice sweep. never seen one that huge mate! good job on the crocs!

[johnv]

hey pete the depth was 48/52 when we came in closer we only got very small ones & probaly about 5kms down, no bait schools at all we didnt even see any birds workin the water

cheers john

hey coasty , there was plenty flatties mate we threw that many back it would've made a poor man cry lol

thanx 4 the replies cheers john

Edited November 28, 2010 by johnv

[Guest rzep]

Hey John,

Great catch mate.

Sorry about not being able to make it but my phone was dead when you tried to call me

[johnv]

hey Paul u missed a great day mate & the new boat went great out there, icould do 5 trips with this boat compared to the old boat in fuel cost ( WHAT A SAVING)