St Leonards Jan 17

Portarlington, St Leonards, Queenscliff
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St Leonards Jan 17

Post by Trumpeter » Mon Jan 09, 2017 8:57 pm

Hi All

Just back from another magical holiday break at St leonards and as usual the fishing was pretty good. The weather was much better than the same time last year with some absolute cracker days with no or little wind. I ended up with over 60 KGW and some good sized Flatties, one was over 50 which was a nice surprise. Squid were around to but mainly smaller ones with hoods around 20-25cm. Best bait for the KG's was half a Pillie fillet but they took squid and Pippies to. Puffers were annoyingly plentiful but I only hooked a few Banjo's over the whole trip which was a bonus. Had two powerful, unstoppable screaming runs on my 2500 Freams which I put down to Eagle rays, luckily both breaking off at the leader and saving my braid. We'll be going back down there again for the last week of Jan, can't wait!

Awesome conditions
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Outwide in 9m of water, away from the pack or "Bourke Street"
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Berley cage mandatory
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Typical days catch
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Sunset
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Evening session was great until the easterly strengthened making it tough back at the ramp.
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:cheers:

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Re: St Leonards Jan 17

Post by Marty.A » Mon Jan 09, 2017 9:26 pm

Nice haul mate and the conditions looked perfect well done :thumbsup:

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Re: St Leonards Jan 17

Post by KgWhiting » Mon Jan 09, 2017 10:34 pm

Any gummies around trumpeter?

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Re: St Leonards Jan 17

Post by Lightningx » Tue Jan 10, 2017 12:01 am

Nice report! Great catch :thumbsup:

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Re: St Leonards Jan 17

Post by Trumpeter » Tue Jan 10, 2017 5:08 am

KgWhiting wrote:Any gummies around trumpeter?
Yeah there were a few heads at the cleaning table

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Re: St Leonards Jan 17

Post by Trumpeter » Tue Jan 10, 2017 5:09 am

Cheers Marty & Lx

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Re: St Leonards Jan 17

Post by barra mick » Tue Jan 10, 2017 6:34 am

Some great tucker there..nice fishinh

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