Happy New Years!
Hope we've all been well and that we all have a ripper season!
Location and Conditons:
Bellarine, Saturday 4 January 2025, 8.00am -10.00am.
Light winds blowing NE becoming moderate.
High slack to run out tide, fished 0.2 - 1.0M depth.
Experience
Taking advantage of the perfectly calm conditions and wind directions I decided on heading directly out to hopefully pick up some calamari before moving to a secret spot.
This proved semi-successful with a calamari in the third drift, but nothing for 30 minutes following.
This made me decide on moving to plastics and targeting whatever was biting.
I moved into my secret spot casting out a motor oil coloured 4" curl tail before the rod buckled before the lure hit the bottom.
This was short fight before my stinger hook's braid was frayed against some rocks and torn clean off.
Take #2. Swapped hooks, cast the same spot watching the bow in the line before the rod buckled again!
This was a healthy fish and from the behaviour and fight, we were on a school of pinkies.
Getting the fish in and measured at 35cm had it quickly moved to the esky and the lure flicked back out.
What followed was an hour and a half of contant action, every cast a fish ranging from 25 - 45cm, with the kicker being actually sight casting the pinkies as they swam around and at times under the kayak! Can you believe that!
The school eventually spooked due to the actions of another bloke, I think the meme sums it up well.
Ended the session keeping 7 pinkies, ranging 33 - 45cm,took five home, two went to a friend.
Pretty chuffed with this effort, had a blast out there!
