Bit of fun off Manly beach

[duncan.march]

Afternoon all,

With the swell forecasts really low for this week a mate and I decided to go and have a fish off Manly beach to see what was around.

Started off at the old gas works to get yakkas, a couple of pike and a decent squid for bait then headed down to the beach.

Fished one rod with squid strips, one with butterflied yakkas and a third with the whole pike.

Off to a good start with a little Whaler then it went quiet for a bit.

Then got a couple of decent sambos (though one grabbed the shark rig with a whole yakka on it which I currently have spooled up with 100lb braid having been smoked off the beach on 30 lb line a couple of times on the bounce - wasn't a particularly fair contest)

Finished up with a little shovelnose having also missed a couple of massive hits including on a whole squid head (bit through the trace so probably another shark).

Lovely night for it - was planning on going again tonight but looking out the window...maybe not.

Cheers,

Dunc

[brettmann86]

those little whalers are great fun to catch we got stuck into a load of them back in January on bream gear that was awesome fun got smoked by more than we landed but hey it was a ball

Great little session you had by the looks of it!

[benm]

Did you take those photos on a potato?

[ArrowHooker]

Yep, they are heaps of fun.

Nice work.

Good size for live bait for mum

[duncan.march]

hahha - yeah, bounced my iphoen that day - doesn't seem to have done it too much good