Bay Day With Kat

[ellicat]

@Kat and I headed out this morning from Manly. Fished Mud for most of the run-out tide. Managed a 45 snap and Kat a legal grassie around 33 from memory. Kat also got onto something huge that busted off about 15 metres from the boat. I'll post a video of that tomorrow.

Conditions were superb with a glass-out for most of the day. We had a few runs and failed hookups along with some undersize squire and grassies.

Around 1.30 we headed down to Green. I got a 44 snap and Kat got another grassie or two as well as a 37 squire. Dinner sorted for both of us. I hooked up to what we suspect was a large shovelly that did what it wanted when it wanted. Eventually it busted off on an abandoned crab pot that has been there all year. Easy release method.

We had quite a bit of action and dropped more fish than we would have liked, but it was a good day to be out there.

We were out there from 7.30am to 5pm but there always seemed to be something happening.

Thanks for the day, Kat and especially the food - including homemade chocolate chop cookies.

 

[Andrew_P]

Great day excellent effort Brian and Kat! Always good to get lots of opportunities rather than just one or two for the day. Sounds like you were making it happen

[Kat]

I just finished the worst part of the day - filleting.  Had to have a couple of glasses of wine first to psych myself up .

Gonna be a late dinner tonight but we'll worth the effort!

Thanks Brian.  Better the cookies are in your tummy and not mine.

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Nice work Brian and Kat, looks like lots of fun!

[kmcrosby78]

Nice work you pair, sounds like a fund day out and a feed as a bonus .

[ellicat]

12 hours ago, Andrew_P said:

Great day excellent effort Brian and Kat! Always good to get lots of opportunities rather than just one or two for the day. Sounds like you were making it happen

Thanks mate. The rod repair worked beautifully. The rod itself, being such a noodle, wasn't the best choice for the shovelly though.

[ellicat]

Forgot to mention for the crabbers that there was the odd crab swimming on the surface. Not sure if that's a good sign or not.

[charlie.hans.fishing]

Great job Brian and Kat!

 

Sounded like a nice day.

[FishingCrazy]

Nice day out on the water by the looks of it.

Fresh snapper fillets.....nothing beats it.,  except maybe homemade chock chip cookies.

[ellicat]

It's a tossup, but you don't need to fillet the cookies so...

[ellicat]

Here's the vid -

 

 

Also, I forgot to mention there were plenty of longtail tuna around with heaps of birds working the area.

[Kat]

Brian's go pro needs recalibrating!  Cameras are supposed to add 10lb not 100.  Weird though didn't add 100% to the size of the fish.

[Angry51]

Didn't even notice.