KayakPat Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 So I now realise the fish just know that the weekend is when anything tasty has a hook ina it... I went to the usual south east rock yesterday for a short avo session. As I arrived someone hooked up on a coco nut rig but dropped it. So I put on my new hard body lure and started cranking. I wasn't seeing much action so I changed my retrieve up, going for a medium retrieve speed with some rod sweeps and bumps to get the lure moving about more. That worked and I got a hit on my first retrieve and hooked up on the 2nd, just a small bonito but a good start. Then a few casts later a hit followed by a hookup after resuming the retrieve, this one pulled a some drag and wend deep so I thought maybe a king, that is until it charged back up for a spectacular leap and head shake, aus salmon doing what their famous for. He gave a decent fight and when it came to landing it made sense, it went 65cm and 3.5 kg, such a fatty. Same bummy retrieve landed me a 2 smaller salmon and 2 more dropped hookups. The other guys there pulled a few 20-30 cm bonito and one guy caught and kept a 50ish king again against my advice of legal size... Such a pity people keeping undersized fish... But all in all a good session where i finally out fished one of the guys I'm often there with and who always out fishes me haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fragmeister Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 That's a nice fat salmon on the bottom of the photo. Pity about the guy who kept the undersized Kingy... many a time years ago I would quickly flash my forklift license at them, tell them I was an off duty DPI Inspector and tell them I would let them off in this instance if they returned the fish. Is it still illegal to toss offenders into the drink? Cheers Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Novicefisherman Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 So I now realise the fish just know that the weekend is when anything tasty has a hook ina it... I went to the usual south east rock yesterday for a short avo session. As I arrived someone hooked up on a coco nut rig but dropped it. So I put on my new hard body lure and started cranking. I wasn't seeing much action so I changed my retrieve up, going for a medium retrieve speed with some rod sweeps and bumps to get the lure moving about more. That worked and I got a hit on my first retrieve and hooked up on the 2nd, just a small bonito but a good start. Then a few casts later a hit followed by a hookup after resuming the retrieve, this one pulled a some drag and wend deep so I thought maybe a king, that is until it charged back up for a spectacular leap and head shake, aus salmon doing what their famous for. He gave a decent fight and when it came to landing it made sense, it went 65cm and 3.5 kg, such a fatty. Same bummy retrieve landed me a 2 smaller salmon and 2 more dropped hookups. The other guys there pulled a few 20-30 cm bonito and one guy caught and kept a 50ish king again against my advice of legal size... Such a pity people keeping undersized fish... But all in all a good session where i finally out fished one of the guys I'm often there with and who always out fishes me hah Its fun spinning up fish isn't it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest no one Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 A mate sent me a pic of 3 kings he caught yesterday in the eastern suburbs... All cut throats all about 50cm... Wont be fishing with him ever again and told him that! The attitude of these wankers needs to change! Great session for you! Top job buddy, great sambos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaClH2OK9 Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Nice writeup Pat. Well done on the catch. And sharing the session with us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KayakPat Posted March 5, 2015 Author Share Posted March 5, 2015 Cheers, Yeah I recon fisheries needs to be more present at the rock spots. It seem that that is where most undersized fish are kept from. they'd get paid on a good day too haha 3 of 5 people at the rock didn't have licences when i mentioned fisheries checking them... zzzz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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