A Day Out with the Better Half - Tasty Bag of Happiness

I may have mentioned this before, but my wife is very tolerant of my obsessive behavior in targeting the pinks.  How many times do I get home early from work, hook the boat up and then get home at 9pm.  After successful missions then there is the inevitable bullsh*%ing about the trip, photos, texts, blah blah, blah.  She does however enjoy the “spoils” and demands that pinks, dhu, blackarse, harlequin and KG are the only things that can come home.

Anyway, with the wind finally being low I surprised her with taking a day off work and waking her up with “hey, why don’t you come fishing with me today?”.  Not my usual 5am but a leisurely “let’s try and get out by 9.30”.  Let her sleep in while I set the boat up and the 9.30am start was the go – I only ever really fish “daytime” in the comps but the forecast was perfect so why not?

Headed out to my spot at the back of the 3 Mile that has produced so well lately – found it by following a pro cray boat.    What do you know, the pots were there and the pro boat was working.  There was also a charter boat out there full of people, but no one was fishing?  Whales, and a few of them were all around us and from where we were sitting, the show was better than on the charter.  Breaching, blowing and a full tail shot within 100m of the boat was quality.  All that and you get it for free – well, sort of as owning a boat is never free.  Even better, Jill got her first KG when it was all happening – boat pulling pots, whales, charter boat watching and a quality fish.

I have to compliment the cray boat skipper.  We were quite close to his pots but he hauled them with skill and seemed genuinely pleased that Jill caught her fish.  He might have been actually more pleased by the number of crays in the pot and was in quite a good mood though.

After a while and a disappointing number of undesirable wrasse and parrot we decided to move on to another piece of ground that we discovered previously via cray pots, and what do you know there were more pots there.  And, there were more fish.  Excellent couple of hours – undersized pinks, KG, a nice Tarwine and Skippy for Jill, a variety of other things and even a 450mm Red Snapper.  The Red was a bonus as this was a fish I had never caught before and in <30m - apparently they are very good eating?  The same pro came to pick up his pots (did very nicely again and gave Jill a really good cheer when she landed her first pink – undersized but still went hard) and we were joined by some older gents.  It was great to see them do really well with a 750mm pink landed on the change of the tide – caught up with the guys at the ramp and they were absolutely stoked – most interest though was in my Minn Kota and how I could stay in one spot without an anchor.

The sea breeze started to come up and it was time to head in.  A quick stop at the near shore squid spot and the day came together.  Jill can’t wait to get out there again and was so proud that she caught fish you could actually eat.  Easily made double figures and is still talking about the experience.  Awesome – you don’t have to bring home heaps and they don’t have to be huge to have a really good time.

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Sounds like you had a great day on the water

Tue, 2014-09-30 17:28

Kudos to the pro who showed such manners also

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Nice

Tue, 2014-09-30 18:07

You must be the only fisho on earth that is happy to be pinged and have a good fish pulled by them in the process

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Ha you beat me to it! Nice

Tue, 2014-09-30 20:12

Ha you beat me to it!

Nice one Mick. Dont hear of many bream out that way either

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Awesome

Tue, 2014-09-30 19:22

 Great post Mick,

What a great day on the water you have described, really good to hear about others sharing in the fun, and a good couple of fish as well, nice work mate.  Congrats to Jill to for having a go and cleaning up on some nice fish.

Cheers

G

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Tue, 2014-09-30 19:26

 They were happy as, and I'm good with that.  I did mention that the 60 odd sand whiting they had should be used for pink bait though.  They suggested fillets, nah whole on a snell.

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Good post Mick

Tue, 2014-09-30 19:30

and great to see the missus enjoying it as well..  

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Nice Report Mick a pleasure

Tue, 2014-09-30 20:06

Nice Report Mick a pleasure to read as always.

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 Quality report as always,

Tue, 2014-09-30 20:14

 Quality report as always, well done