Penguin Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 Hi everyone, My boys and I went out for another fish in the bay on Monday. Our first stop was at the yakka grounds at the end of the breakwall to gather some livies. There were a few small bust ups there and yakkas were hard to come by. I threw an un-weighted pillie tail into one of the bust ups and was on. After a short fight that ended up going around my anchor rope, I pulled in a 67cm King. Straight after this a couple of seals turned up and the bust ups stopped. We decided to head over to the oil wharf and soak some baits. We managed to catch some small trevs and small snapper, and a couple of nice flatties here. As the tide turned we pulled up anchor and re positioned ourselves to the other side of the wharf. After putting the berley pot in the water we hooked 3 bream, two were throw backs and the other went 30cm, another nice flattie also came aboard. After this the trevs moved in and we caught lots of legal ones and turfed a heap back. We got bored of trevs, so a move was made to Molli pt. More trevs were on offer here as well and frankly we were sick of catching the same thing over and over. Luckily for us as the sun started to lower on the horizon, some nice size tailor moved in and the trevs left. We had to change our rigs to gang hooks and whole pillies as we were getting bitten off prior to doing this. On a few occasions when a tailor was bought jumping to the boat some big grey shape would appear below it. No idea what it was but it happened on a few occasions. At one stage I got out my heavy rod with stella 20sw, I tied on an 80lb leader and a large hook, then placed 3 pilchards hooked through the eyes and floated them out. About 10 seconds later I was on to something very heavy and going like a steam train. I had him on for about 5 seconds and then I was bitten clean off. I re-rigged and this time put a 40cm live tailor on the hook. He swam straight down and then he came up toward the surface where the rod buckled over and I had another strong but short run. This time I was bitten off as I was lifting the rod out of the rod holder. Again no idea what it was, maybe a shark. Anyway we probably caught around 20 or so tailor and let most go. They seemed to bite like crazy then go quiet for 5 mins, then bite like crazy again. This went on like this for awhile. We then left them on the chew as we went home. We had a sizeable bag of fish and let a lot more free throughout the day. Our bag was shared amongst our family and some senior citizens from the home next door that always ask me for fish when I'm going out. Here's a few pics. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fab1 Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 6 minutes ago, Penguin said: Hi everyone, My boys and I went out for another fish in the bay on Monday. Our first stop was at the yakka grounds at the end of the breakwall to gather some livies. There were a few small bust ups there and yakkas were hard to come by. I threw an un-weighted pillie tail into one of the bust ups and was on. After a short fight that ended up going around my anchor rope, I pulled in a 67cm King. Straight after this a couple of seals turned up and the bust ups stopped. We decided to head over to the oil wharf and soak some baits. We managed to catch some small trevs and small snapper, and a couple of nice flatties here. As the tide turned we pulled up anchor and re positioned ourselves to the other side of the wharf. After putting the berley pot in the water we hooked 3 bream, two were throw backs and the other went 30cm, another nice flattie also came aboard. After this the trevs moved in and we caught lots of legal ones and turfed a heap back. We got bored of trevs, so a move was made to Molli pt. More trevs were on offer here as well and frankly we were sick of catching the same thing over and over. Luckily for us as the sun started to lower on the horizon, some nice size tailor moved in and the trevs left. We had to change our rigs to gang hooks and whole pillies as we were getting bitten off prior to doing this. On a few occasions when a tailor was bought jumping to the boat some big grey shape would appear below it. No idea what it was but it happened on a few occasions. At one stage I got out my heavy rod with stella 20sw, I tied on an 80lb leader and a large hook, then placed 3 pilchards hooked through the eyes and floated them out. About 10 seconds later I was on to something very heavy and going like a steam train. I had him on for about 5 seconds and then I was bitten clean off. I re-rigged and this time put a 40cm live tailor on the hook. He swam straight down and then he came up toward the surface where the rod buckled over and I had another strong but short run. This time I was bitten off as I was lifting the rod out of the rod holder. Again no idea what it was, maybe a shark. Anyway we probably caught around 20 or so tailor and let most go. They seemed to bite like crazy then go quiet for 5 mins, then bite like crazy again. This went on like this for awhile. We then left them on the chew as we went home. We had a sizeable bag of fish and let a lot more free throughout the day. Our bag was shared amongst our family and some senior citizens from the home next door that always ask me for fish when I'm going out. Here's a few pics. Well done,great read.You could set up your own fish shop with all that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigunner54 Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 awesome day. can you post a pic on what your berley pot looks like tho haha. seems very efficient Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welster Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 Great catch and a good report. Sounds like you couldn't miss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zmk1962 Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 Awesome ! and great sport with the family there. Congratulations. After my miserable effort on Sunday I am so glad you landed "scale" on Monday.... makes me want to go out again. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 A great feed there again Penguin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big Neil Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 Very well done Penguin. Great report and photos. Did you intentionally line up the lamp post to come out of the Kingfishs mouth, in the 1st photo? Great day on the water. I'm jealous. BN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingie chaser Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 Well done Penguin. Looks like the kings have been fished pretty consistently in the bay for the last 4 weeks. And if course I havent had time to get out Well at least someone is enjoying themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Posted April 28, 2017 Author Share Posted April 28, 2017 Thanks for the kind words everyone. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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