Fishing time : 18/05/2019 3pm-6pm
Weather : 20 degrees sunny and dropped to 15 degrees.
Wind : 10 kmh SSW
Moon : 99%
Barometer : 1025 and slightly increasing
High tide : 2:40pm
Bait : squid strips, pipis, pilchard
Rigs : paternoster as it's weedy with some rocky bottom. 10 lb line 1/0 KL hook.
Squid jig : shimano egixile red 2.5 on 8 lb line.
The fishing:
Being south wind, the area was well covered and it was only around 10 kmh, very easy paddle. Saw few boats straight out off the beach around the markers, few divers on the rocky point. So I paddled further to the left/south towards mt martha.
Set two bait rods and straight away got plenty of actions, got me occupied I couldn't get time to cast the squid jig. Unfortunately mostly undersized pinkies and leather jackets/triggers.
Second cast on the squid jig and on! I tried to cast the squid jig in between busy actions of the two bait rods. There was a time I was busy the the bait rods, I had my squid jig just hanging on the side of my kayak and a squid took it!
By 5pm I was running out of bait, retired the two bait rods and focused on the squid.
4x leather jacket/triggers
10x undersized pinkies
7x squids
I could've bagged out the squid but it was getting really dark. Not a good idea to be on a yak with tiny head torch.
No whitings, but oh well...
Now what am I going to do with 1.3 kg of squids
