Bate Bay

[Yowie]

Headed out this arvo with my mate in his boat. The trip through the Hacking was wall-to-wall boats and jet skis. Not a good day to be in the river fishing.

We headed out past the bombie to deeper water and were on to a few flatties almost straight away. Drifted towards shore to about 100 feet of water, and the spikey numbers picked up, so motored back out to deeper water again. Pulled up a few more blue spots, and a couple of just unders, then my mate says, "I feel seasick."   He forgot to take his seasick tablet, so we headed back to base.

That catch was for less than 2 hours fishing. We had planned to anchor before sunset after drifting, but was not to be.

Back at his place, I sent out a floating bait and pulled up the 2 tailor, not a lot over the size limit. The biggest flattie was 49cm.

[Restyle]

cracker bag of fish for a couple hours of work! good effort as always 

[Yowie]

2 hours ago, Restyle said:

cracker bag of fish for a couple hours of work! good effort as always 

Thank you, young man. Happy with the feed of fillets.

Up river fishing should only get better, but not on weekends.

[Larkin]

Nice haul of flatties! 👍

I was out there too. Plenty of people out and about - school holidays and good weather gets the crowds out.

Swell was 2-3m in the morning, decreased around midday, although wave period was quite long, so not rough - but I can understand why your mate got sick as there were rolling swells - a lot of up and down - like being on a carnival ride!

what’s time did you get out there?

[Yowie]

5 minutes ago, Larkin said:

Nice haul of flatties! 👍

I was out there too. Plenty of people out and about - school holidays and good weather gets the crowds out.

Swell was 2-3m in the morning, decreased around midday, although wave period was quite long, so not rough - but I can understand why your mate got sick as there were rolling swells - a lot of up and down - like being on a carnival ride!

what’s time did you get out there?

Happy with the catch - at least he held out for a while before pulling the pin.

Started fishing before 3pm, lines up at 4.30.

My mate has ocean fished for many years, but still gets sea sick. His boat does pitch a bit in a swell, being a 25 footer - the higher above the water, the more you rock and roll.

[Fab1]

Great result Sir Yowie and friend.I noticed the other day during the week the jet skiers and boaties have increased during the day.I never use to see anyone midweek on a jet ski 3 or 4 yrs ago.

[Yowie]

3 hours ago, Fab1 said:

Great result Sir Yowie and friend.I noticed the other day during the week the jet skiers and boaties have increased during the day.I never use to see anyone midweek on a jet ski 3 or 4 yrs ago.

Thanks Fab. 

Jet ski numbers have markedly increased since Covid started, and some of the riders are youngsters.

[masterfisho7]

Well done top bag of fish those flathead will be some top eating fish

[Isaac Ct]

Great bag Yowie, of course you still manage to smash the fish in a short window of time, then still manage to catch good ones while not in your main fishing area.

Well done

Edited September 25, 2022 by Isaac Ct

[Squidless]

Wall to wall flatties as reward to getting past the wall to wall boats and jetskis. Great report, glad to see you back decimating the fish population 😂

[Bluebenbomb]

We can always rely on you to provide us with great pictures and a report. Well done on the bag of flatties.

[jenno64]

Nice work Yowie

very impressive fish:minute ratio🤪

enjoythose fillets!!

[Yowie]

1 hour ago, masterfisho7 said:

Well done top bag of fish those flathead will be some top eating fish

Thank you, fillets tonight.

1 hour ago, Isaac Ct said:

Great bag Yowie, of course you still manage to smash the fish in a short window of time, then still manage to catch good ones while not in your main fishing area.

Well done

Thank you. No way I would be fishing up river on a Sunday.

1 hour ago, Squidless said:

Wall to wall flatties as reward to getting past the wall to wall boats and jetskis. Great report, glad to see you back decimating the fish population 😂

Happy to be back and into some fish.

1 hour ago, Bluebenbomb said:

We can always rely on you to provide us with great pictures and a report. Well done on the bag of flatties.

Thank you.

25 minutes ago, jenno64 said:

Nice work Yowie

very impressive fish:minute ratio🤪

enjoythose fillets!!

Thank you.

One thing I forgot to include was a gummy shark, around the metre mark. I though I had on a big flattie, until it started taking line against the drag, then second thoughts about what it was.

If I did not have a few flatties, I would have taken it home for the plate. I tried some recently in Victoria, at a couple of pubs and clubs, and it batters up very tasty when freshly caught.

[Rebel]

Top haul.

Well done.

[Yowie]

3 hours ago, Rebel said:

Top haul.

Well done.

Thank you.

[Crabstar]

17 hours ago, Yowie said:

Headed out this arvo with my mate in his boat. The trip through the Hacking was wall-to-wall boats and jet skis. Not a good day to be in the river fishing.

We headed out past the bombie to deeper water and were on to a few flatties almost straight away. Drifted towards shore to about 100 feet of water, and the spikey numbers picked up, so motored back out to deeper water again. Pulled up a few more blue spots, and a couple of just unders, then my mate says, "I feel seasick."   He forgot to take his seasick tablet, so we headed back to base.

That catch was for less than 2 hours fishing. We had planned to anchor before sunset after drifting, but was not to be.

Back at his place, I sent out a floating bait and pulled up the 2 tailor, not a lot over the size limit. The biggest flattie was 49cm.

There certainly on aren’t they!!