A little fishing a little bit north

[safboi]

Hi guys n gals, went up to Swansea this morning with a couple of mates to chase some salmon and hopefully some kings off the rocks, got there nice and early a couple of decent bites but tons of yakkas in the water, caught a nice little groper to start off with, just within the legal size i think, which was alright, kept it alive in a rock pool, however ended up releasing it a little while later considering the fact that i would probably want something a little bigger.

As the day went on got one good hook up only for the mystery fish to get away, thought it was a good size bream judging by the way the bait was taken, but my mate told me "you can guess all you like son but you'll never know" ... lol. Eventually tried getting some yakkas, ended up catching 3, one of which was used straight away, no sinker, just a float, was pretty much willing to try anything at that point however, not even a touch on it.

Got a couple of gummy sharks i think, released those back as not sure if you can keep those or not and min size, so took the safer option of catch, release and catch another day

Had a another setup with a drop sinker and a pilchard, about 30mins after i threw the yakka out, got a massive hit on the pilchard, thought it was going to be something good, fought with it for a good 10-20mins, eventually pulled in a port jackson shark, at least that's what i thought it was, couldn't get the camera out on this occasion unfortunately since i was eager to re-cast, good hook up on it as well on the lip, so i ended up taking out the hook and let the champ roam free again, didn't want to give it a kiss since i don't think im looney enough lol.

Bloke next to me asked if he could take it, wasn't sure, but last i checked they're an endangered species if im correct and its meant to be an instant release once you find out you've got one hooked?

Anyway, was a good day, saw some dolphins come to within 60-80m of the rocks, it got very windy towards 10am so packed up and headed back into Sydney.