Oli Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 I had planned to fish the low tide at night for jewfish. with high hopes, I arrived at a wharf in mosman at around noon. the plan was to catch some yakkas and squid for bait. as I expected, there were no yakkas around, but there were loads of garfish. after I had caught a few gars, I saw somebody catch a yakka. I was never so happy excited to see someone catch a yakka, and within minutes, there was enough to last me the day. I decided to try for squid, but I wasn't feeling so confident as the water was murky. a few hours of squidding and I didn't even get a single hit. one of my mates tried working a lure on the bottom, and that resulted in a nice 40cm flatty. the sky was getting darker, so I felt like chucking out a yakka on a float rig. I had a few hits, and when I checked on the bait, the whole tail had been taken off, which meant that the fish eating the yakka were probably tailor. I hooked the next unfortunate yakka near the tail instead, but didn't get any hits. before sunset, I tied some jewie rigs. now I couldn't see the sun, and there were two livies on the bottom. very soon, I had something on. however, from the way it was pulling, it was either a squid or an octopus. I saw it on the surface, and it was a giant calamari, definitely more than 1kg. the inevitable happened, though, and it got off. bugger. would've been great jew bait or even greater eating. I fished until 9:30pm with no results. at least I had a good feed for the next day. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Nelson Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Nice catch shame you didn’t get a few of those squid rings to go with it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysLearning Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 Next time keep the bait the squid is eating in the water while you tie a jig on another rod. Then do the quick swap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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