Another Wazza

That would put a dampener on the day for sure.

I witnessed a steel cable snap at the private boat ramp on the Logan a while back now, made a very interesting noise before letting go, safety chain wasn’t hooked up either, it was a decent sized fibreglass half cab, the owner wasn’t too concerned about his daughter on the bow, who had well and truly soiled herself, his main concern was wether he had trimmed up the outboard.

Having only been out fishing 4 times in the last 3 or 4 months, with mixed results, I was a bit excited to be heading out there this morning, after checking the tides I had every intention of getting out there around 4am, but found myself at the ramp at 4:15, oh well.

I decided to cruise up to Harry’s and have a little poke around, upon arrival there was probably 6 or 7 boats already there, which wasn’t too bad really, I managed to get on to some of those concrete pipes and started fishing the edges.

First cast of the morning was with a pearl z man streaks on a 1/2 oz jig head, it didn’t even look like getting to the bottom, I had missed the turn of the tide and was dealing with considerable current, so decided to rig up a 1oz jig head with a pink grub on it, turns out it worked a treat, I had a little cod climb all over it, he was just a whisker under legal, if he had grown a goatee he would have wound up in the esky.

feeling pretty good about that capture I kept plugging away, and not long after, my pink grub got hammered!, a proper battle ensued, I was using 12lb fluro leader on 20lb braid, and didn’t want to go too hard on it, I’d get a little line back then he’d take a little bit off me, I think he had about 4 good runs  in him before he surfaced behind the boat.

I was pretty stoked once he was in the net, he came in at 74cms, so I got a couple of pics and decided to let him off with just a warning that maybe next time he won’t be so lucky.

After that quite a few more boats had arrived and the bite had all but shut down, I could only manage 1 small squire on a squid offering.

I decided to head to the Rous and try for a mackerel, and also catch up with Brian as he’d told me the night before that him and Leo were heading there.

I didn’t go that well at the Rous, got snipped on my floating pilly, caught a grinner not long after, and kept getting my plastics cut in half by pike, so I motored up to say g’day to Brian and Leo, and I think I waved to Steve? who was fishing with Drop bear, then headed down to West Peel before going home.

West Peel wasn’t really firing, a dishonourable mention goes to the wobbygong who ate the grinner fillet, the sea toad who destroyed my paddle tail and the turtle who ate my pilchard, fear not Gregoug, the 35/40cm sea toad wasn’t up to your standard, your still the king, hahaha.

I did score a little tuskie on plastic, and a 25cm grassie too

the grassie played up like a second hand lawnmower on top of the esky and wanted nothing to do with the camera.

so all in all it was a pretty good day on the bay.

Mate, that is one cracking effort!, it may not be a 100% success story for you, but sometimes things don’t pan out exactly how we’d like them to, that said, don’t let it take the shine off what is an awesome fish!, hat off to both of you for trying so hard to get him going again, seeing it just float off down the river would have been a tragedy, but at least now it’s not going to waste.

I wouldn’t be hanging the salmon line up just yet either, don’t let 1 rough experience deter you man,  the next one you catch could swim away just fine,

All in all, still a great effort