Morning Metro -Yak Mission

Since I have gone back to fulltime university study, it has been harder to find time where both the weather and my commitments align to be conducive of a fishing trip. One morning earlier this month I was lucky enough to find time for a quick session in the kayak. I arrived at Seacliff beach by 6:50am and I was paddling out to my grounds by 7:05am.

I quickly was on the first drop, but straight away there was an issue . This issue came in the form of leatherjackets, the plan of whiting fishing had all but disappeared as hordes of small destroyed any bait which I put in the water. After landing two leatheries it was time to move to one of my outer grounds, on arrival here I spotted a small school of snook which was promising. I then anchored in the sandy hole fishing back towards a rocky ledge, with a considerable burley trail going out with the tide it didn’t take long to hook my first snook. I was able to land this fish in a few minutes as it was hooked on my Kg Killa which was running 20lb braid on a 4000 Arenos reel. After landing this Snook I cast out another half pilchard on a 5/0 hook for the same result however this time the large snook bit through my 40lb trace.

The action had now slowed, so I decided to set my crab-pot in the sandy hole. While continuing to fish for snook. The crab pot did not take long to get attention and soon I had landed a decent sized male bluey. My focus then shifted to crabbing where I managed to land another 5 large blueys over the next hour, in between attacks from large smooth rays and banjo sharks. Where I was lucky enough (unlucky) to land a banjo shark in excess of 10kgs in the crab-pot. I was also lucky enough to land a 33cm whiting which I spotted swimming around the crab pot, which could not resist fresh Goolwa cockles.

The fishing had really slowed and when the crabs spotted attending the net I decided it was time to move to a reefy ground to catch a few more snook. I landed one on a floated bait as soon as I arrived. Followed by another sprat on bait the next cast. I then decided I would use soft plastics to tempt some larger fish (I found light coloured plastics most successful). This worked well hooking 4 and landing two snook over 50cms. By now it was about 11:30 am and as far as I was concerned a dead-time for fishing so I called it a day catching a decent feed from the yak yet again.