Long Reef Monday 19/12/2017

[zmk1962]

Hey Raiders,

What unsettled mixed weather we are having here in Sydney, for most of the week Sunday 18th looked the goods for a day offshore up until the day before when Seabreeze showed 20-25kts Southerly and so we cancelled the day --- then Sunday comes around and it turns out 5kts bah humbug. 

Anyway, managed to go out yesterday Monday 19th with a mate - plan was to launch at Davidson, pick up live bait at balmoral and then hit Long Reef. Forecast was for 13kts NE for most of the day.

The  mixed unsettled weather continued through the day… scorching sun and some wind and then a thunderstorm at the ramp. … 

Started off so promising - armed with 9 live yakkas from balmoral hit long reef at 8am -

Rigged live yakka near bottom, and another under a balloon. Two paternoster rigs with squid, pillie and plastics. 

Moved from Long Reef out to Murphys (60m) and some other interesting marks....

The bottom rigged yakka got taken twice, but still at the end of the day the tally was ----

3 maori wrasse
4 juvenile snapper
1 sergeant baker
2 kingfish (63cm and 35cm)
1 morwong keeper
1 nannygai keeper

Not a flathead in sight 30-40-50-60m zippo … water 23.5C …colour - blue when sun out, dark oily green with the clouds… it just kept changing !!!

On the way back down rigged a live yakka at 10m depth around north head for 1hr on the outgoing tide…zip … eventually released him.  The pro boat guides were down rigging same area… zip  very quiet day they said.. who can pick it !   NOT ME !

Cheer,

Zoran

 

[antonywardle]

Damm

 

I'm going out on Saturday to try my luck

 

Hopefully some flatties come back!

[cogo44]

The flatties are lying low to come out to play on Saturday at Long Reef  - hopefully!

[GoingFishing]

Better luck next time Zoran ! I guess thats fishing, fish there one week, no where to be seen the next

im very surprised about water temp being 23.5, all the charts ive been looking at show the warmer water still very wide and out of reach

[zmk1962]

Well during the week the surface temp charts showed a tendril of warm water 22C pushed to around Sydney at about 100m. So I originally planned to fish 12mile (100-130m) out of Sydney harbour but then the conditions changed to N NE winds so the plan changed to Long Reef and wide so we could return with the stronger afternoon wind at our back.  Perhaps the N NE winds accelerated some of the hot water at the surface. 

Cheers Z