Yowie Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Headed out this morning to Bate Bay, starting the drift at sunrise. Took a while to find even a few spikies, then found more of them so kept a couple for bait. After quite some time, I was thinking of moving, then pulled up a couple of under sized blue spots, so kept at it then hit a patch of slightly bigger fish. From just over legal to about 40cm, not big fish, but happy to pull up a feed considering last weeks big swell and winds. Re-drifted the same spot for a little while to catch my 10, then headed home. Also a couple of Barry Couta about. Around the 30 to 35 m depth. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Well done.Great morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hookerbruce Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 With a reasonable weather forecast thought you might be out there had a quick look out front of the bommie as we went south. We didn't see a lot of boats out today. Always reliable yowie and blue spot flathead. H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted July 23, 2020 Author Share Posted July 23, 2020 2 hours ago, Rebel said: Well done.Great morning. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted July 23, 2020 Author Share Posted July 23, 2020 1 hour ago, hookerbruce said: With a reasonable weather forecast thought you might be out there had a quick look out front of the bommie as we went south. We didn't see a lot of boats out today. Always reliable yowie and blue spot flathead. H No, not many boats about this morning. I was closer to the bommie than normal today. Maybe the social websites yesterday talking about the 4 metre Great White off Wanda scared them away. 😆 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zmk1962 Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Great job Yowie! Nice feed. cheers Zoran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted July 23, 2020 Author Share Posted July 23, 2020 2 hours ago, zmk1962 said: Great job Yowie! Nice feed. cheers Zoran Thank you. Had a feed of fillets last night. Marinated in sweet chilli sauce, garlic, lime rind, lime juice and sweet soy sauce. Accompanied by chips, and a salsa of chopped tomato and red onion flavoured with lime juice and sweet chilli sauce. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielsydney Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Great haul mate! Would you suggest persisting every time when hitting a patch of undersized blue spots? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted July 24, 2020 Author Share Posted July 24, 2020 6 hours ago, danielsydney said: Great haul mate! Would you suggest persisting every time when hitting a patch of undersized blue spots? Give it a try for a while. If undersized ones keep coming up, none of legal size, then time to move to another area. Some days I have moved and found them all to be legals in another spot. A few of them yesterday had fat roes, even for such small fish, so it might have been a mating spot. Sometimes I find a patch of fish, close together, with females with fat roe, and the males are squirting out milt, so obviously the flatties are down in the deep and having a rooting/tooting time together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielsydney Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 It's tough knowing a flathead is having a better saturday night than me 😂 Cheers mate! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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