[onemorecast]

Got to Cottage Point at about 5:30 am with a good breeze already going. Launched with no dramas once I realized that leaving the cart on until the yak floated off it was far superior to turning it sideways and dumping everything out on dry land.

Trolled a CD9 and another cheapie greenish deep diver HB to the cargo wharf for nothing. Jigged for squid there and another spot further around but didn’t get any interest, which I thought was unusual. Crossed just north of Lovett Bay for one last try at squid – Still nothing. Got the first tailor on the way back to SI. Nice one about 35 cm. Got another one right away and when I trolled back something bigger took my cheap greenie. (8 lb Fluorocarbon trace which I am finding to be brittle) :x .

Drifted the East side of SI 6 or 7 times for lots of little bream and a nice flounder. Found a squid playing with my prawn so I whipped in a jig I keep on a hand line for occasions like that. Now I had downrigger bait. Tried downrigging for about half an hour to no avail. So I started back. The wind died so I thought would ring the wife. As soon as I got the phone out – double hook on the CD9 & another cheapie red and white HB. Quick goodbye and only managed to bring in one of the 2. Five minutes later got another one on the R&W HB. Wind was really picking up so I had a bit of a work out of a pedal back the last half K. Just as I was reeling in near the beach a bream took the R&W, he was only about twice its size.

Best day off I’ve had in years, the only downside is that the Hobie is taking on water. Had about 2 litres in it when I pulled out. Need to figure this out.

 

[Peril]

Nice effort Eric. Good result on a windy day

 

[RedPhoenix]

Unfortunately, due to the change in ownership of this web site and the lack of response by the owners to my requests to remove my email address from all administrative-level notifications and functionality, I have decided to remove my posts on AKFF. Thank you for the great times, the fantastic learning experiences and the many many fish. If you are desperate for the old content of this particular post, it is available below base64 encoded and bzip2 compressed.

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[Russ]

Top effort Eric, Nothing like a good day out being a best day off. Any day off is a best day off for me. Thanks for the map looks like a real great place to fish.

fishing Russ

 

[Scott]

Good report mate. Sorry to hear about the water intake in your Hobie but it appears this is a common problem. I would think given the amount of instances of this occurrence lately, the distributors will know where it is coming from and fix it quickly for you so I would be returning it to them for review.

Catch ya Scott

 

[onemorecast]

Good one Eric!

Wow, looking at that area on google earth, it's certainly boat-anchorage heaven out there - did you have to weave through on your way back in?

Red.

Pittwater is indeed full of moored boats, & I did weave in and out of them a bit when I was trolling as I wanted to get the HB close to some of the them. There are areas around the island that hold Kings and I know some people like throwing poppers around the boats looking for them, particularily early in the morning when they supposedly feed closer to the surface.

Up until about 9 am I could hear some surface action (saw it once too). Don't know if it was kings, or tailor. When I saw the splashes though, I was downrigging and not set up to quickly throw a lure there.