GordoRetired Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 (edited) Not sure what happened here. I spent 15 minutes typing up a report but the text disappeared when I hit post.... EDIT: OK, no idea what happened so I’ll try again…. After all of my recent reports have been freshwater it was time to put in a day on the salt. So yesterday morning I met up with a couple of mates and by 6.15am we were launching at the Roseville ramp. 1st stop was the FAD off Manly, when we got there there were already 3 boats drifting around so we joined in dropped down cut pillies and squid baits as well as throwing around some soft plastics. We soon hooked into a small Dolly, over the next 45 minutes we caught 4 Dolly’s but as they were all quite small they went back in and we decided to head out to the wave rider a mile or so further out. There was only one other boat there but after drifting past the buoy a few times we were not able to entice a single hit. Time for plan B. This was to head around 8 or 9 miles North to some marks shown on the navtronics app on my mates phone that looked to be a couple of buoy’s… Wrong they were only GPS marks. So as we were all the way up there by Mona Vale we decided to drift around and see what we could pick up. Turned out to be a reasonable decision as over the next hour or so we caught a selection of Red’s, Flathead and Morwong. Lot’s of small ones but we started to get a few fish on ice. After that we headed back South to an area just North of Long Reef where there are 4 wrecks showing on the app. Down went the paternoster rigs again with pillies and squid and much like the first spot up came a selection of Red’s, Flathead and Morwong. Again lots of small ones but we did manage a nice sized Red and a real good sized Morwong. Eventually we decided that it was time to start making our way back towards home but could not resits another look at the Fad…. Turned out to be a waste of time but hey you never know if you never go….. Finally my mate said that he wanted to stop off at one of his favorite Flathead drifts for our last few drifts before home. By now the wind was starting to pick up a bit so even though we were only fishing in around 50m of water we had over 100m of line out to get a bait to the bottom. Then we hooked onto the fish of the day.. This Flathead drift had already produced a couple of small Reds and a Morwong then my Mates rod bent over with a solid fish. Took him a good few minutes to finally coax it to the boat and as I leaned over with the net a lovely Jew Fish came to the surface. Into the net and onto the ice, a good 85cm + fish. With that we headed back to the ramp with a reasonable catch on ice and all feeling quite tired after a long day on the water. Dinner last night was one of my favorites, Flathead fillets rolled in a flour and Cajun spice mix and shallow fried, served with garlic mash, peas and corn… Followed by a sleep in the arm chair after dinner. Edited March 29, 2019 by GordoRetired Update 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackfish Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 (edited) If your any thing like me and my typing ability, what a buggar.. Nice mixed bag Gordo and is that a Trag the first fish. GordoStillWorking. Edited March 29, 2019 by Blackfish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordoRetired Posted March 29, 2019 Author Share Posted March 29, 2019 19 minutes ago, Blackfish said: If your any thing like me and my typing ability, what a buggar.. Nice mixed bag Gordo and is that a Trag the first fish. GordoStillWorking. That one at the top is a Jew Fish. Went around 85cm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 A nice mixed bag, with one marbled flattie in the mix. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoingFishing Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 Great work gordo that will make a nice feed for sure. What depth were you fishing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zmk1962 Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, GordoRetired said: Not sure what happened here. I spent 15 minutes typing up a report but the text disappeared when I hit post.... Hahaha. Is that before or after the dog ate your homework. Well done buddy! Now to clear the diary for our adventure. Cheers Zoran Edited March 29, 2019 by zmk1962 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackfish Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 1 hour ago, GordoRetired said: That one at the top is a Jew Fish. Went around 85cm. should have looked more closely to the convex tail. Nice fish. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
61 crusher Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 Great mixed bag Gordo, some good feeds in that lot,shame about the report going AWOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blaxland Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 Looks like roseville wish they would upgrade the facilities I know its a national park but its used by a lot of fishos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordoRetired Posted March 29, 2019 Author Share Posted March 29, 2019 5 hours ago, GoingFishing said: Great work gordo that will make a nice feed for sure. What depth were you fishing Mainly in around 50m, at one stage the current was so strong that we have over 100m of line out to get to the bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scratchie Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 Gotta be happy with that lot. Sounds like a great day on the salt! Cheers scratchie!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big Neil Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 A very enjoyable read Gordo. Thanks for taking the time to retype it all. Probably took you as long as it did to catch your haul. Top stuff, bn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam bros Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 Nice report Gonna make a nice dinner there 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordoRetired Posted March 30, 2019 Author Share Posted March 30, 2019 1 hour ago, sam bros said: Nice report Gonna make a nice dinner there Love a nice dinner of Flathead 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
61 crusher Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 Thanks for rewriting, a great write up which helped to fill in the blanks for the nice mixed bag, lucky last drift & a nice fish to finish up on. I’ve got to give that Cajun mix a try on my next lot of flatties, I’ve used it for blackened trout & that came up trumps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordoRetired Posted March 30, 2019 Author Share Posted March 30, 2019 1 minute ago, 61 crusher said: Thanks for rewriting, a great write up which helped to fill in the blanks for the nice mixed bag, lucky last drift & a nice fish to finish up on. I’ve got to give that Cajun mix a try on my next lot of flatties, I’ve used it for blackened trout & that came up trumps I do not use a lot of the Cajun, a good covering of flour on a plate and then sprinkle the Cajun on top. Probably only a couple of heaped desert spoons. After you have tried it adjust to taste the next time. Enjoy 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoingFishing Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 Not often you get jewies as by catch on a flathead drift. Nice write up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houdini Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 great haul and what a way to end with that Jewie. How many great fish get caught on that one more cast? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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