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Botany Bay Cape Banks to South Head 30/8/12


Aqua Naut

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Well the conditions were forecast smooth seas but the winds were expecting to pick up mid morning so decided to head out early with the boss little Darral in search of the schools of baitfish on the surface that has been present :wacko: the last week or so. Amazing in a week the water temp outside the bay was struggling to get the 16oC mark and I knew straight away we were going to find it tough today. Headed North towards South head hoping to find some warmer water plenty of mutton birds and seagulls swooping the water about 2kms out in search as well never seen so many mutton birds prehaps its breeding season on the east coast for these guys.The surface was quiet so we anchored up over some structure off sound head and within the first 30 mins we were getting some action with Trevaly just short of legal at 28cm and the boss got a good hit on his rod with alittle weight on the end as well. With a 5 min struggle for the little man we finaly got it to the boat and it was a good sized Port Jackson Shark of around 12kgs :biggrin2: . Got him to sit still for a minute so we can get some pics with him and then send him back to the drink to fight another day. 10 mins later my rod buckles over and it was another port jackson shark around the 5kgs which was released near the boat. At this stage the winds had picked up and we decided to move on and head south back to the bay again. We trolled most of the way back for 1 bonito around 50cm and that was it :wacko: temp realy done the dirty on us today. Wind kicked up to 25 notts so we headed back in. All in all it was a good days fishing with a few buckles on the rods hopefully those Northerly winds come around and push some warmer water down our way. Tight Lines :thumbup:

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Left pic. Looks like a crested horn shark.

Allot of people have been confusing these with port jacksons.

The easy way to identify them is......... the port jackson has dark brown or

black stripes that form a triangle over the top of the pectoral fin.

The crested horn shark has slightly bigger horns on its head too.

Hope this helps a few of you.

regards

andrew

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