Sydney Harbour Sun 18th Dec.

[camjojosh]

The day started at Tunks Park boat ramp at 5am. A quick launch and out to Balmoral bait grounds. The Lowrance showed bait fish everywhere and within 10 minutes three of us had filled the live-bait tank with medium sized yakkas. Those small ones are hard to come by at the moment.

Fished North head for two hours for zip. Anchor got stuck and rope snapped trying to retrieve. There goes my $300 Sarca Excel. It was only 4 weeks old....

... I really need to buy a reef pick.

Without an anchor we were destined for a day of drifting and trolling. Caught bucket loads of pinkie snapper off the bottom of South-Head with two going over 40cms. Drifted live yakkas, and brought in several huge squid but were unable to net them, and they had no interest in my squid jigs. Eventually I pulled a jig apart and tied the spiky bit onto a half eaten yakka. That got one in the boat.

Also had a mammoth Sgt Baker take a live yakka... never seen that before.

Then fished the Quarantine station for several undersized flat head and 1 legal at 44cms and 2 flounder just over 30cms.

Trolled a couple of 12cm Yo Zuri lures from the quarantine station, to north head out and around the coast to Manly then back again. One hit off the NH point that ran before chucking the treble then nothing.

Finally headed home about 2.30pm with a feed of snapper, flathead, flounder and calamari, all caught on fresh peeled prawns.

No Kings but not bad anyway, and the yakkas were released to be Kingy-food another day.

Im out most weekends in Aquaholic so if you see me say hi.

Cheers,

Cam

Edited December 19, 2011 by camjojosh

[safboi]

Hi Cam,

Sounds like a good feed indeed! speaking of losses, a mate of mine didn't set the drag properly on his setup, and lost a $500 setup, your def right but there is always something much worse that could happen... such as not catching any fish lol

All the yakkas i've caught so far all seem to be roughly med-large, caught a XXXL one the other day, looked like a rat kingy!, from memory only have caught one that was below that average.

Thanks for the report,

Cheers

Saf

[kulch]

is it ok to have your boat like that on the sand?

reason i ask i recently got a fibreglass hull patched up cause previous owner cracked the hull trying to transfer onto a new trailer and used his backyard - hence the hull cracked

$500 and all patched up and the boat is firing - and now mine

but now i am paranoid maximus, if anything comes near the hull i lose my sh*t, and take measures to keep it free from structure and knocks

i would love to just pull up at a beach like that and relax - but i am scared, so i anchor up in 2m of water and get soaked instead

[zen801]

Hey Cam,

Get some squid spikes for this time of the year. Those big squid are gold.

Mike

[camjojosh]

Hey Cam,

Get some squid spikes for this time of the year. Those big squid are gold.

Mike

Funny you should mention that... I just pick up half a dozen online for $9.95.

Edited December 19, 2011 by camjojosh

[camjojosh]

kulch,

Go to any boating beach in summer and you'll see plenty of boats pulled up on the beach like this. Its no an issue for your hull.

Also, if you think about the force put on a hull pounding through chop at 60-70kmh then I really think you're being paranoid. That being said, I wouldn't use my backyard to swap trailers unless my house backed onto the beach...

... I'd say there's more to the story than that.