danlarter Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 hey fellas, hit the hacking this morning and it wasn't pretty, the wind was a lot stronger than forecast pumped some nippers and headed to a little cove just west of mainbars little harbour it was very slow with only one whiting in the boat and it was only just legal. i saw some flashes of silver so i cast a nipper at them and bang! a nice fat 30 cm whiting. all went quiet for a while until my mates rod bends over with something taking a big run, a couple of minutes later and a big fat 40 cm whiting was in the esky. all went quiet so we decided to head in. we were cleaning our fish in the boat across the bay from the water st. ramp where the old sailing club once was (when was that knocked down?) stupid me put some squid on my hooked and chucked it out and left the rod sitting next to me in the boat ( not in the rod holder) when all of a sudden i hear a splash and look up just in time to see my rod being towed into the depths. after standing there dumbfounded for a minute i grabbed my rod with a live bait set up on it and cast in the direction the rod was going. slowly retrieving it so the hooks would pull along the bottom suddenly i felt some weight and kept winding slowly when my rod appears, i grab the rod out of the water and feel weight start winding and still on the hook was a 30 cm bream. so thanking my lucky stars i headed home with a feed of whiting and bream and my rod lives to fight another day. Dan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.e.p.d Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 how luck is that you couldnt do that again if you tried! good feed on the whiting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginko Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 must have been one confused bream. Great work getting it back on that one cast with the livie rod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
port hacking addiction Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Well done Good catch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnv Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 atleast u got the combo back again,also a bream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filthmonger Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 39cm Whiting best fish of the day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tumra Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 mate has your reel siezed up yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danlarter Posted December 18, 2012 Author Share Posted December 18, 2012 Nah I stripped it down and gave it a real good clean out and oiled it a bit so it's all good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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