MONDAY 03-12-2012
Stopped by the Whaling station early to try get some mackies, but no luck. Water was 18 deg.C
Sea was on its head this morning. with a strong NE, then settled nicely when it turned to a SE, later a strong SW cam through so we had it in our face all day. Best water temo we found was 21.8deg.C with 21.4 being teh average for the day, the deeper I went the colder the water got, with 20 deg.C on the 100m.
Although cold the water looked good and healthy for a change.
We got an assortment of small bottoms, but the current was screamin like a wild river in flood.
We landed a nice Yellow Tail (Amberjack) close to 5kg.
I was grumpy on the water today with the lumpy sea and can feel it in all my muscles, and eventually we got a really good hook up, a YFT in the 20-25Kg class (I saw the fish)
Just imagine what 4 letter word I shouted at the top of my voice when the client dropped the lever on the drag causing a crows nest that took me 30 minutes to cut out the reel this evening. Eventually I tried to hand line the fish, but the hook pulled and then he went jumping like mad.
Kinda feel bad for shouting like that but man after all the effort.......to loose a good fish in that way.
See the mother of all crows nests
Stopped by the Whaling station early to try get some mackies, but no luck. Water was 18 deg.C
Sea was on its head this morning. with a strong NE, then settled nicely when it turned to a SE, later a strong SW cam through so we had it in our face all day. Best water temo we found was 21.8deg.C with 21.4 being teh average for the day, the deeper I went the colder the water got, with 20 deg.C on the 100m.
Although cold the water looked good and healthy for a change.
We got an assortment of small bottoms, but the current was screamin like a wild river in flood.
We landed a nice Yellow Tail (Amberjack) close to 5kg.
I was grumpy on the water today with the lumpy sea and can feel it in all my muscles, and eventually we got a really good hook up, a YFT in the 20-25Kg class (I saw the fish)
Just imagine what 4 letter word I shouted at the top of my voice when the client dropped the lever on the drag causing a crows nest that took me 30 minutes to cut out the reel this evening. Eventually I tried to hand line the fish, but the hook pulled and then he went jumping like mad.
Kinda feel bad for shouting like that but man after all the effort.......to loose a good fish in that way.
See the mother of all crows nests