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ellicat Grand Master

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I have a plan to go out with Steve this Wednesday, with the weather looking good. Then I was having a text conversation with Kat on Friday or Saturday and discovered she had Monday free from work. So, with the weather looking even better on Monday we decided it was too good to miss. Twice a week is doable at my age. haha

Plan was to launch at Manly, hit Mud for some bait then head over to Harry's. We didn't make it to Harry's. After we got some bait, I just spotlocked on a mark out of habit and completely forgot to go to Harry's. 😲 Must have been the bad night's sleep...

Anyway, the day started well with a legal grassie first up, then some other unders, all on my side of the boat. Knowing Kat had not been for a fish for awhile, I did the gentlemanly thing and swapped sides. Well, didn't she show me up, bringing in a few good ones whilst all I got were snags. So I went up the front of the boat and we both fished the good side.

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And we both caught more fish. Mainly grassies, some legal, some not as well as a few undersize squire and a little tusky just for good measure. I wasn't sure if the bag limit on grassies was 5 or 10. I tried to check on the Queensland Fishing App, but the wifi reception at Mud is atrocious, so I put out the question to both @Old Scaley and @benno573 via text. I thought we had 9 and a bream.

With that in mind and at an opportune time, i.e. when I got a knot in my braid and didn't feel like retying my leader, we headed off to do some trolling for spotties again. The conditions at this point were excellent, with the surface of the water like an oil slick. So we sped up to the M8 where we started trolling, headed towards Moreton, then down to Shark Spit, then back towards Mud.

A large school of Bonito sprung up in front of us so I just trolled straight into them. Shortly after, the trolling board popped up and Kat brought in little bonito to be vacuum sealed for bait at a later date. We didn't see much other action, other than a suspected school of spotties doing little bust ups. We tried to get in front of them without joy. We had to be careful as we were right on the edge of the green zone.

Back to Mud we went for 1 more legal grassie and a few unders before pulling the pin at 1.50pm

Kat caught the most for the day, which was good to see after her long layoff. It wasn't until taking the photo at the end of the day that we realised we had 1 less than we thought. 9 grassies (from 31 to 37), 1 bream (29) and the bonito.

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Thanks for coming out Kat. A very pleasant day. 👍

 

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Absolutely awesome day!  Don't thank me Brian - I should be thanking you given my lack of preparation and contribution.  And I was telling Brett five minutes before your report how gallant you were swapping sides with me 🙂. 

I haven't had a day that fished that well - probably ever (except for maybe my 43cm whiting 😋).

Hope you enjoy your cookies - should have made more for you!

Cheers Kat

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Just to complete the story...

@Old Scaley and I headed out to a flat bay today. Quite a few unders, some close, then Steve caught a nice 40cm grassie. I, strangely enough hooked up to a sizeable shark, on my floating pillie, that occupied me for about 10 minutes. Steve added a 31cm tuskie to the esky.

Conditions deteriorated quite quickly and it was well worse than forecast, being 15+ for the journey back to the ramp at 1.30.

Thanks for coming out, Steve. When fishing is tough, the cream rises to the top. haha

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Nice Grassie Steve!

Brian forgot to mention he almost pooped himself on Monday when  a reasonable sized stingray jumped out of the water on my side of the boat about 30cm from the hull and did another couple of jumps near the motor and the deployed fishing lines at Mud.  It was cool to see and another bit of excitement - Brian presumed it was being hunted...lol. 

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1 hour ago, Kat said:

Nice Grassie Steve!

Brian forgot to mention he almost pooped himself on Monday when  a reasonable sized stingray jumped out of the water on my side of the boat about 30cm from the hull and did another couple of jumps near the motor and the deployed fishing lines at Mud.  It was cool to see and another bit of excitement - Brian presumed it was being hunted...lol. 

Could have just been a "Dora/Dory" that bumped into the boat and pooped it's pants instead of Brian...?

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