[ScottLovig]

Met Poddy at 4:45am this morning to give him the Mornington tour. Conditions a lot flatter now and very little wind. Got a mixed bag myself of pinkies, red mullet and couta. Good fishing but nothing to get excited about. Some took plastics and others on the Yozuri HB deep divers. I cant belive how slowly Poddy trolls his HBs, he barely moves but it works. I slowed down myself and the strike rate seemed to improve. Ya learn something new everyday.

Left Poddy out there at 7:00am to come home and sort out breakfast for the team. Last I looked he was pulling more fish from those HBs.

Cheers

Scott

 

[Squidder]

Good work Scott, we also can't believe how slow Poddy trolls his HBs

Nice snook :wink:

 

[evarn]

Well done guys.. I was gunna pop out on the cliff this morning with the scope to see if i could spot u in the water, but alas i got struck in the head by a cricket ball last night and have just come back from having my head checked out...

On the plus side, I got a day off work!

 

[PoddyMullet]

Thanks for showing me about Scott...much appreciated and good to put another face to an akff name As for the fish, the snook went 81cm of slime....which was the exact length I wanted but I thought I'd ordered a snapper. Where's the bloody manager? Not too worry I'll try Scotts sugesstion of fishcakes. Also ended up with a few pinkies to 38 cm (one donated by HobieVic), small coutta by the truckload, and...I say and...3 small salmon. Who'd have thought ***** would show (ok they were only bay trout size at approx 25cm but technically they break a curse). I also missed a squid which would have given me a 5 species bag for the first time in ages..would have/if only/could have :roll:



Oh yeah, even I can't believe how slow Poddy trolls :roll:

 

[Peril]

Good outing guys. What do snook that size fight like?

Poddy, just how slow do you troll? When I'm trolling small hbs in shallow water I do about 2kph. Similar? Just fast enough to get the rod tip vibrating? I get the feeling that I've been trolling my deep divers too fast (4-5kph)

 

[Y-Knot]

looks reel nice out on the water this morning fellas, and despite no bigguns' it all looked like fun.
I CANT BLOODY WAIT.

SMURF

 

[Rod L]

Smurfman, you need to get a bit more excited I think. Hopefully tomorrow am will pick your spirits up :wink:

Well done Poddy & HobbieVic, nice start to the day. And thanks for not calling me when you got up too Poddy

 

[ScottLovig]

Dave

Virtualy dead. You might be going too quick. In 10 to 15 knot winds I would drift faster. It works though.

Cheers

Scott

 

[Milt]

Well done lads, I'm highly looking forward to your resuts tomorrow morning.

Peril snook don't fight all that well in my opinion the biggest i have caught was around the 70 cm mark. The salmon i caught that day around the 1 kilo mark fought twice as hard for there weight.

Thats a mother of a pike Poddy well done mate.

Milt,

 

[PoddyMullet]

Hiya Peril,
Re the speed the rod tip vibration is my guide aswell..just as long as they're pulsing I figure I'm fine. Most of the guys we get a look at are reef dwellers and not speed merchants. I'm not sure of kph but I've got a GPS so will get a read next time out. If I had a spoon out the back I'd get along at a better clip, but mostly I'm overtaken by granny's reading Joan Collins and floating about on lilo's. The snook kind of fight like a kingfish...if the kingfish has been donged on the head and filleted. Still gotta let em take a little bit of line now and then to avoid pulling hooks though. I was a bit dark on myself for keeping that one, even though they're ugly ducklings when I ran a knife through it was female full of roe...not good karma and I have some sucking up to do with the fish gods