Yowie Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 Headed out early this morning out from Lilli Pilli. Found a few more reddies and a bream - pillies, squid and salted mackerel strips were the baits. A lot of smaller reddies chewing up the baits as well. Around sun-up, the squid baits started to disappear very quickly to pickers, so I tried for jackets and caught some. The 2 chinaman jackets were just big enough to keep, and there were quite a few small ones that were thrown back. The chinaman jackets when cleaned later were full of large chunks of squid, so that is where my squid baits were going. No yakkas to be caught, not even a pilchard jumping anywhere. Was heading for home when I saw a large number of pelicans and seagulls splashing about in South West Arm, so I headed up for a look. The birds were feeding on a school of anchovies over one of the little sandy sections, the water was clear and I could see the bottom. I chucked out a lure, 10 gram metal in dark blue and hooked up straight away, a jumping salmon. Over an hour or so, I pulled out 6 salmon, all about the same size of a bit under 50cms. All released. Quite a few follow-ups of the lure. Best result was to retrieve the lure just under the surface with it occasionally breaking the surface. The salmon disappeared after a while, so I looked in the very shallow water, still plenty of anchovies there and the sandy bottom was glittering with a large number of small shiny scales, so the bait fish were copping a flogging from the salmon. Surprised that there were no tailor in the mix, and I did see 1 frigate zoom past the boat but nothing else. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manhands Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 nice day, nice action Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingie chaser Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 (edited) That's a feed...………………..or 3 👌 Edited May 13, 2019 by kingie chaser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterfisho7 Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 Great report Yowie and some top fish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted May 13, 2019 Author Share Posted May 13, 2019 Thanks guys, just had a feed of reddie fillets with a few mixed flavourings, very nice. More to go. Mum will be eating the jackets, one of her favourite fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_s Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 Nice catch, your consistency is amazing Yowie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted May 13, 2019 Author Share Posted May 13, 2019 1 hour ago, mark_s said: Nice catch, your consistency is amazing Yowie Thank you. Just a matter of finding the right spots (it has taken a while to do that) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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