queensland Wello Sunrise

[tomca]

Hit Wellington Point this morning with GrantH with dreams of catching a feed.

I was off the donut fairly quickly with the first of at least a dozen of these taken on the troll with my trusty Berkley Frenzy

Out through the leads we turned left and casting a blade I acquired from the swap meet I connected to a few fish and dropped a good one that took a fair bit of line. After catching quite a few undersize fish, something more substantial turned the yak and was surprised to find this little guy this early in the season.

Down at Huybers Beacon some of the fish were close to legal but no matter what I tried and where I went, the nursery followed

Grant didn't fare any better, this being one of his bigger fish

Plenty of interest in any plastic, and blade I threw at them, just couldn't find a big fish amongst them. Tried the shallows and found plenty of pike, tried the deeper water and found small squire. I did land a sweetlip that went legal if measured Kreel style, but released it anyway.

And also caught a cod, just under legal on the way back south that bricked me for a while.

By 9am the boats were coming thick and fast and the fish became few and far between. Not a great day fish-wise, but not often do I get out in this sort of kayaking weather

[ryanyoung]

Still, better than sitting at home doing nothing eh??? Awesome sunrise too.

Cheers,

Ryan.

[crazywalrus]

nice one tom. That grassy would have been fun and close to legal

[fishing4fun]

Looks like a great way to start the day...

Just wondering what the first fish is?

[tangles]

Not a bad sesh considering the start. The fish gods don't like it when ya hook 'em in the eye.

Good read and good pix.

[tomca]

Can't remember what the fish in the first pic is, but they are always in plague proportions this time of year then I don't catch another 'til next spring.

Tangles, he was hooked in the skin on his face, the photo is a bit deceiving

[tugger]

great morning on the water and the little school mack would have been fun for his first couple of runs on light gear watch those teeth though even at that size, better luck next time Tom to put a feed together :fishing:

[ellicat]

First fish pic shows a Bullseye.

Amazing eye features in real life. They look like they should be living a lot deeper than Wello.

Tom, you look like you are half dead in some of those pics :laugh:

Beaut sunrise shot

[dassa]

Looks like a nice day on the water mate but if you don't keep up your end of this hunting and gathering thing you may be kept at home with the little fella and let nickers out to provide the feed. :laugh: :laugh: .good to see grant getting the hang of fishing out of the yak.

[Keen-as-fisho]

Nice one Tom, hopefully we will bump into a few large macks down there. Those rat squire are good when not much action is about but get pretty frustrating after a while.

[tomca]

some new blades from Rob arrived in the mail yesterday, and they look the goods for around there. Lost a blade, and dropped a couple of really good fish there. Need to expect it while running 6lb in 4m of water.

Mark, those teeth left a nice impression on the bow of the yak when he made a break for it as I tried to get the grippers on him