#fishdistributionsystem working overtime to share these with neighbour, uncle, in laws and parents.
Plan A: Head offshore in the yak to see how far I can go and how long it takes to reach some really deep spots 70-100m
Plan B: Fish the heads for table species
Got to the ramp nice and early launched at first light and what do you know. The damn sounder won't turn on!
I disconnect and reconnect the power connector many times but it still won't turn on. I'm devastated as I really wanted to fish offshore.
So it looks like plan B and I'll be fishing blind! I motor out to where I think the wreck is, drop the sabiki and to my pleasant surprise I've caught some yakkas.
The morning started real slow without the sounder and my gps marks it's a guess work where there might be fish or structure. By 8am a school of rat #kingfish make their appearance. It's the first time exploring this far and it doesn't help that I have no downscan or gps. Throughout the day I just have to guess where the fish are and I'm constantly moving spots until I get some decent nibbles. It's not until about 1pm when the action really starts the pickup, #wrasse, #snapper, scorpion fish one after the other. I even managed to hook an Eastern Blue Devil Fish (protected species) which is a first for me. Such a pretty fish I didn't really get a chance to admire it as I wanted to return it back to the water asap. Eventually the bite wears off at dead low tide. While moving around looking for fish I snagged multiple times and then hooked a freight train that ran straight into the rocks. I suspect this was a decent king as most sharks would head out towards the sea, not into the rocks. Today I lost all my sinker and rigs that I had brought, primarily due to snags and having no gps on the sounder.
PB Eastern Red Scorpionfish 36cm.
Gear used:
Rod: Daiwa TD Black V2 Mangrove Masher 642MFS
Reel: Daiwa 21 Caldia MQ LT3000
Line: #Tasline Elite PE 1 15lb
Leader: Sunline FC Rock 20lb
Bait: yakka strip
8 сен 2024
