Wednesday i launched at 8:30 from martha cove the wind was up a bit so it is still easy to launch and retrieve here by myself. i had no bait so the plan was to get some fresh bait for the next few days. unfortunately when i have a plan it seems not to work, wind was up a bit and i was back in by 11.
Thursday the weather looked better. i launched from safety beach at 5:30 and headed out. i was in around 19m. caught a few flathead around the 30cm mark that i put back. then another around 34cm that i ended up keeping. normally this would of been returned to, but after measuring it it jumped onto the floor. when i went to pick it up one of my other rods loaded up so that got the priority. unfortunatly it turned out to be a port jackson at about 75cm tho it crossed all my lines on the way up and had gut hooked itself. so i cut the leader on that at its mouth, cut all the other lines and pulled the mess in by hand after returning the shark. then i remembered the flatty. so that went into the bucket.
i then moved to my usual squid spot but had no luck, and the drift was a little fast. had trouble keeping a 3.5 down. so i moved to another spot where i picked up 2 on a pink and white 4.0 i then swapped to a smaller white 3.0 which seemed to work but i must of pulled a bit hard and only came up with a tenticle. it was good to catch something on my new squid combo for the first time.
it was now about 11:30 and the wind was expected to pick up a bit later so i headed to the ramp to call it a day.
