Botany Bay , Bream Trevally, Scorpionfish and a sore thumb

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G'day Raiders

Yesterday I decided to fish Botany Bay with dad, we launched the boat at 6am and headed for our usual go to spot, burleyed hard for 20mins before the we started seeing any fishy activity.

First in was a nice just legal bream going 25cm, then another just legal bream at 26cm. Then two more after that!. Four just legal bream within 20 mins , awesome , afternoon tea sorted !

Shortly after the yakkas and other smaller fish showed up and it was hard to keep the baits in the water long, we boated a couple of undersized pinkies, and a few yakkas which I kept for bait. We decided to head out towards kurnell headland we anchored up dropped some live baits down and continued on with baits and plastics, dad got a colorful fish which I can't ID ( someone can ID this fish please ) and then dad dropped a bigger model trev which he had boat side and went for one final five busting off his leader. Nothing touched the live yakkas.

We decided to head back to another spot near the runway, and again burleyed hard. We must have anchored up over the magic spot because for the next hour it was fish after fish plenty of trevally, bream and pinkies. We boated four more legal bream and one legal trevally and probably let go about twice as much undersized.

I flicked some plastics around at each spot hoping for some flatties but as usual donut on the flathead :/.

11o clock the wind kicked in and we were packing up, bringing in the last line and up came a little scorpionfish, iv cought and read about these nasty buggers before so decide to use a pair of pliers to pull the hook out of his top lip, he wasn't very impressed with this and at lightning speed kicked around and sunk his dorsal spines right into my thumb ! F@*$ that hurt ! Cut the line threw him back into the water and went straight for the anchor to lift up and head back to the ramp, but the anchor wouldn't come up, pulled as hard as possibly could but nope. Tied off the anchor rope and decided to give it a solid tug with the boat motor, but no success , I drove around like a madman for about 10mins with the anchor pulling me in circles. By this time my thumb was absolutely aching and I couldn't take it anymore, so I succumbed to surrender and cut the anchor off. Headed home with a feed, a sore thumb and my tail between my legs. Now need to buy a new anchor, rope and chain.

I guess just another days fishing.

Ps, I can't upload the pics from the phone but will do so tonight.

Sam