Well fellow Raiders this is a very late report, but you know how life can get very busy these days. This was around mid Feb.
The old saying "good things come to those who wait" couldn't be further from the truth.
Now it's not everytime I have an opportunity to fish with the bride, but I reckon she's a good omen. How many times
have I tried to hook up to a decent Jewie and managed nil or Salmon or even big Tailer, now don't get me wrong
there's nothing wrong with the above mentioned , but when your live yakka or live squid gets taken by these thieves
instead of the Holly Grail, well your spirit is dampened. Anyway on this particular day I had a good feeling, the tide was
high at 7am, 2 days before new moon,7km NW winds oh yer the wife in company. As we made our way to the bait
grounds, we manage to find Yellow Tail in an area where it drops down from 4mts to 8mts with bigger fish holding close.
We managed to drift at this location and berley with mashed up bread and pillies, within 15minutes we had a dozen or so.
With Squid caught the day before and enough live bait we set out to anchor up wind and drift back on the spot mininizing noise.
By now it was 6:15 am, we put out 4 rods at different depths and distance. At approx 6:45 the lightly waited yakka
started to vibrate, I gentley grab the rod wait 10 seconds and start to lift the rod, the fish loads the rod and takes its first run.
I let it have it's way before it took about 50 meters of line when it started to ease back. I started to reel some line back when
the head shakes started. I then knew that this could be my PB. The fish took another run, but this time it was short.
1O minutes later the unmistakable silver/purple flash appeared, I leaned over put my hand under the gills and she was onboard.
Looked at the misses and said "What do ya reckon love" She replied " well it's about time you got one" .
The fish went 99 cm and just shy of 10kg, What a day in the Bay.