Flathead, Mowies and Reds at DY Wide

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At last the weather was good enough to go outside and restock my fish supply, although there was a big swell so we gave trolling around North Head a miss as the swell was rolling in.

Also the few miles around North Head to Manly was like a washing machine, but calmed down as soon as South Manly head was passed.

At DY Wide the first drop yielded a good flathead, and mowies and flathead came in regularly as well as lots of 29cm snapper which went back as gently as possible to grow that extra cm.

The westerly dropped and was replaced by a light NE so we headed home around 10.30am with a fair catch.

A couple more flathead were added after I took the picture.

The measure is 39 cms and most of the fish were much longer, the largest morwong being a very good size.

Although we had good pilchards and some Hawksbury prawns most of the fish took squid tentacles from from large local squid of which we had eaten the body and kept the tentacles for bait.