Bought a 4.9M Savage Bay Cruiser second hand just before Christmas. Absolutely loving the fishing trips around Lake Illawarra.
Since we bought her though i have just not been able to find a weekend with decent weather.
The nice days come and i'm on shift for Marine Rescue ! At least i get on the water.
This weekend was fabulous, but guess what ? Yup family duties to attend to. The weather has holding resonably till Monday arvo, so i booked the day off work and the missus and i took her out for our first trip in the deep blue.
Out of Port Kembla Harbour at around 10:00 after getting the kids to school.
We stuck to the eastern harbour wall for a little while hoping that there maybe some squid to catch, no joy there.
As we drifted south on the wind the missus hooked up to her first Ocean fish. A scorpion fish !!.
Netted and carefully dehooked for release. Quickly she was onto her second, i was still rigging !!
Another Scorpion on the shallower structure ( 8-9M down ).
After this i thought we might run North and look for something on the troll. After only around 3 mins a reel was screaming off and a Bonito landed for bait.
off we go again and almost immediately another screaming reel, this time Lou lands a Kingy, just over 60cm so back in it goes.
After a short trip another screamer, this time a bigger fish and she lands a Salmon ( please correct me if i'm wrong ) ? This was too much fun, and we threw it back in to fight anothter day.
We even encountered a shark of about 1.5M. See if you can see the Dorsal in the photo
We made it up as far as the reef a couple of K's off wollongong lighthouse, but by now the wind was getting up a bit and we were fidning it very difficult to hold anywhere.
I did catch a Sgt Baker !!!
We then took a slow an steady troll back to PK harbour, no more pick ups, but a great day out on the water in what ended up pretty mediocre conditions.
Can't wait to get out on the glassy days