heya all,
went for a solo fish friday, floated around here n there,managed to pull up some flattys, a flounder n a bream, great day on the hawkesbury, when night time came i decided to chase some jews and hairtail, the endless nights i tried getting a hairtail last year to come home with ziltch,i was gonna head up to jerusalem bay, but it looked a bit to foggy, wasnt in the mood to get out there n get lost, so just hung around the rail bridge and dangar island, i flicked a softy around then bang, reel screams, head shakes, we all know what that means, this thing took me around the boat twice, i was giving my anchor rope the evil eye when it was near it, eventualy got it to come up at the back of the boat, little jewie at 72 cm was netted, was pretty happy with that effort, went quite after that, so moved to another spot and put out some fresh tailor fillets, to kick back n vege out, typicaly wasting time n tackle to the catfish n eels, after an hour another twitch on my rod, said here we go again, starded to reel it in, felt a bit different, this time there was a bit of a fight, but still thought big eel or ray, got him up close, as soon as the moon light hit this long silver thing in the water i knew what it was, my first hairtail wasnt a monster but still was a moment to remember, 5 min later my other rod went off, was thinkin were theres one hairtail theres gotta be at least two, this thing felt big, aggresive head shakes and violent pulls, was only using 10 pound braid n 15 leader, i had a couple of bust offs earlier by gettin to excited so this time i was playing it safe, no joke fought this thing for an hour, one of the best tug of war games ive had, i really didnt want to lose this one, then comes up this at least 2 meter demonic lookin pike eel, this thing looked like it wanted to kill me, it was pissed off n so was i really, but it was still a fun battle, it looked like a big snake in the water ready to lunge towards me, thought ok you win, then it did this massive death roll on the surface n cut the line, then not much happend after that, the fog was really startin to thicken up, so called it a night n headed back, couldnt be stuffed cleaning the fish at 2 in the morning, so went home had a bit of a snooze got up took a couple of pics n did it then, cleaning that hairtail was fun, it was like wiping off silver spray paint off a long piece of fillet, hope it not too foggy next week, looks like theres hairtail about