Yowie Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 Today's forecast, issued a few days ago, was for southerly winds but that changed, so last night decided to head outside for a flattie drift. Woke up earlier than I wanted, so changed plans again and headed to Gunnamatta Bay for an early fish - if nothing doing then head outside. Anchored along the edge of the sand bank and fished into deeper water. Pulled up a few yakkas so cut them up for bait. I pulled up the reddies, tailor and flattie on the yakka strips, plenty of small reddies then the jackets turned up and ate all baits and snipped off some hooks - I suspect they were little chinaman jackets. The flattie was released - it put up the fight of a piece of seaweed until it saw the boat, then took off in all directions for some time. I had a few frozen cooked king prawns, so thawed them and used them as half peeled baits, for the whiting and crab, throwing the line over the sand bank. That was enough for a feed. Heading to North Haven on Thursday for a week or so, meet up with friends, have a fish (of course) not been there for some time. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bessell1955 Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 Not a bad result! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zmk1962 Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 Very well done! Can’t complain about that as a result of a changed plan. cheers Zoran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 Great haul as usual. Well done. Have a safe trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burger Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 oooh. . . Love North Haven/Laurieton! Have a great trip Yowie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoingFishing Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 great bag as always Yowie. Ive developed a real liking for blue swimmers recently but am yet to really target them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothparade Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 Nice catch, especially the flatty, decent whiting to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted May 11, 2021 Author Share Posted May 11, 2021 3 hours ago, bessell1955 said: Not a bad result! Happy with the result. Saves on fuel and no bouncing around on the ocean. 😆 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted May 11, 2021 Author Share Posted May 11, 2021 3 hours ago, zmk1962 said: Very well done! Can’t complain about that as a result of a changed plan. cheers Zoran Thank you, couple of feeds there and I didn't have to go far at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted May 11, 2021 Author Share Posted May 11, 2021 2 hours ago, Rebel said: Great haul as usual. Well done. Have a safe trip. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted May 11, 2021 Author Share Posted May 11, 2021 2 hours ago, Burger said: oooh. . . Love North Haven/Laurieton! Have a great trip Yowie! Hopefully something to catch up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted May 11, 2021 Author Share Posted May 11, 2021 1 hour ago, slothparade said: Nice catch, especially the flatty, decent whiting to Thank you. I had previously hooked up 2 large chunks of kelp, the flattie felt like a third one until it was next to the boat, then it woke up and took off. 😂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted May 11, 2021 Author Share Posted May 11, 2021 1 hour ago, GoingFishing said: great bag as always Yowie. Ive developed a real liking for blue swimmers recently but am yet to really target them Thank you. The crab grabbed a piece of prawn then tangled itself in the line, so it will make a nice entree before fish fillets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenno64 Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 Great work on the local catch Yowie! A nice feed, a nice release and a trip to look forward to👏🏻👏🏻 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingie chaser Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 7 hours ago, Yowie said: Thank you, couple of feeds there and I didn't have to go far at all. Quicker & cheaper than going to the fish market 😉 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hookerbruce Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 Hi Dave Bit late in replying, I'll have to do another hacking trip try and get a flattie haven't got a decent one for about a year. you have come up with the results again. Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted May 16, 2021 Author Share Posted May 16, 2021 7 minutes ago, hookerbruce said: Hi Dave Bit late in replying, I'll have to do another hacking trip try and get a flattie haven't got a decent one for about a year. you have come up with the results again. Bruce Thanks Bruce. Currently at North Haven. One of the guys from the van club has moved up here, he didn't have far to tow his van so he headed home and brought the boat around as well. Asked me out for a fish yesterday (he has only been up here for 3 weeks or so) has not worked out too much just yet. We fished for several hours at 3 spots, the westerly was up for a while, pulled out a stack of bream, not one legal amongst them, a flounder and 2 flatties. One flattie just legal so I sent him back, then I thought I hooked a nice jewie until it swam near the boat, then put on a performance for a while. Bloody eagle ray. May have another try tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hookerbruce Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 You might have to go over to the dark side. I think you can get green weed in the ponds behind the breakwall at north haven 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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