jenno64 Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 A quick snapshot of 3 outings last week in Sydney's glorious autumn weather.... Outing 1: Collected some fat poddies and fished CC bridge in the last of the run, at sunset on April 19. Trolling around the CC bridge just on dark, one of my livey rods buckles over so I set the hook to another screaming run and good headshakes and stupidly put the rod back in the holder so I can get my other two lines in. One more run and ping, the beast (jew suspected) reefs my up near a bridge pylon. No joy but a pleasant arvo out on glassy conditions. Outing 2: Kept an eye on Seabreeze and picked out Wednesday arvo April 24 as a good time to target some squid. Hit the bay about 1pm and the last of a light westerly began to drop as I slow trolled some squid ligs over weeds near the entrance of the bay. No joy for an hour then as the wind dropped to nothing, I hit a patch of nice green eyes and managed a drag pulling 34cm hood amongst them. The yak was inked pretty badly at one stage but a great feed of 6 inkers was collected in under an hour. Outing 3: Had lunch out at Cronulla on Anzac Day and noticed the swell was right down so I planned to take my mid 70s father in law out for a bash on the following arvo. Collected some nippers and a bag of stale bread from the baker and we hit the spot around 3:30pm . I was armed with some new 8lb fluorocarbon line on a light alvey and my FIL had his usual eggbeater & basic rod. after burleying for 20 minutes, i went the first nipper and afiesty bream comes out of 2-3 feet of reefy water. I picked up another couple of sub 30 bream then my FIL gets one, yeehah! Then some bruisers moved in and my next fish was a 40cm pig which upon lifting onto the rock ledge, snapped my live fibre rod in two! (secong rod to do so in 3 years!!!) My FIL went back to my car to get his other rod and in the mean time I use his $50 combo and another good fish bricks me under a ledge. He arrives with a spare stick for me and i slip my Alvey onto it to then get bricked by two more good fish. As soon as the mother of all full moons came over the horizon, the fish switched off. we ended up with probably 15 fish over the 90 minutes and took 8 home for a feed. I should have used 12lb!! Three very different fishing episodes but all in the best weather Sydney could possibly turn on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adkel53 Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Great report that reflects a person who obviously enjoys all types of fishing. Love reading your reports. Kel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Formosan Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Well done Rob. Bad luck on the jew. But those Squids are stonkers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scratchie Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Well done jenno, That's an awesome feed of squid there! And some great jewy bait for the next year! They're massive! Cheers scratchie!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhype Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Hey rob You are a man of many talents... jew fishing one day, then squid and followed by a massive bag of fish off the stones. What is most impressive however is your ability to eat what looks to be 4kgs of squid? Plus your master rod "building" skills turning one piece rods into two piece travellers rods !!! Cheers Trung Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slam354 Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 you are an awesome fisherman rob would love to have a rockfishing session with you some day. Cheers steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlRak Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 That's an awesome report, with some great catches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hodgey Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Terrific report Rob. A shame about the Jewy but some very tasty consolation prizes amongst the inkers. The session on the pigs sounded like a cracker! Any issues cleaning the ink off the yak? Keep the reports coming mate! Cheers Hodgey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 You have a few good feeds there Rob, it's a good time of year to be fishing. Dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scent Blazer Lures Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Nice inkers there buddy. Well done... Tight lines Andrew SBC www.scentblazer.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Good haul there Rob and in some spectacular fishing conditions. The yak was inked pretty badly at one stage but a great feed of 6 inkers was collected in under an hour. Did you clean on sight or wait til you got home? Cheers Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenno64 Posted May 1, 2013 Author Share Posted May 1, 2013 Thanks for the comments guys, as for cleaning the yak, there are a few dark blotches here and there but ill get out the kartcher and give it some stick! I've frozen the big squid and I'm going to stuff the tubes and cook them in a tomato based sauce so ill keep you all posted! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutt Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Great work as always Rob! Pity work has interfered with fishing again.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quintrex480 Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 (edited) think i am going to have to start stalking ya in my yak Rob! well done mate! so if you see a guy in a hobie outback tailing ya out there, it's just me ok Edited May 1, 2013 by quintrex480 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Zod Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Thats an awesome 3 day outing. Pitty about the jew, at least you got a nice feed and those squid are huge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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