Good mixed bag off DY

[saltrix]

We were a bit late arriving at Tunks Park ramp today and thought we would have trouble find a park, but there was only a dozen or so cars there.

The breeze was about 10 - 15 knots but the forecast was for improving conditions so after an unsuccessful troll around Grotto and a look at the big swell around North Head we decided to head for DY wide, while keeping a lookout for stripped tuna which were around last week. We were out about 5 kilometers investigating some working birds when we noticed the plume of a whale's breath. We were then treated to about 5 minutes of spectacular leaps and backflips from a large humpback about 100metres in front of us on its way down south. Just to see that was worth the trip in the jiggley conditions.

At DY wide we both hooked up on the first drop to nice flathead, but several Sargent Baker and undersized flathead followed. It was hard to hold the bottom even with the sea anchor, but conditions slowly eased until there was hardly any drift at all.

Good fish came in consistently and at around noon with 18 flathead, 2 snapper, and 2 morwong between us we decided family fish supplies were secure and headed home.

Sorry there were no photos of the whale as looking at the ones I took there is only a blurry splash and several pictures of waves as the swell was so big we disappeared in the troughs.

Attached is my share of the catch. The snapper was just legal at 32cms but some of the flathead were whoppers.

[fisholb]

Nice haul mate...well done...glad to see the flattys r around...we only got one last time...

[Yowie]

The blue spots are a good size, and plenty of marbled flatties there as well.