Interesting day in the harbour. Got some advice off a mate which didn’t pan out that well. The first place we went too looked great and there was bait busting up everywhere… chased by trevelly as big as my hand. Got a few and gave up. Went to the next few places recommended, but they were all out of the water by a metre or two, just got the right tides for it. Boated around for ages before finding a few interesting drains. Very quiet until bang bang, 50cm & 61cm barra. Suddenly the wind kicked up like nothing else and we had to go home. Also saw two sharks fighting each other in the shallows… was pretty cool!

Got:
Me: Nothing of course.. but I am excellent guide!
GT: 50 & 61cm Barra.

Story of the trip:
Probably the boat ramp. The department of fisheries says you can use it on “most tides” what rubbish. I tried to take it out about 2.4m of water and had to wait 30mins. Even then it wasn’t protected by the breakwall and the chop from the 8knot northerly was horrible. A very difficult retrieval.

Boat problems:
*sigh*
During the week when I was playing with my boat cover I noticed the retrieval winch wasn’t working. Luckily my trailer guy (Michael from Promoter Trailers, great guy) was able to replace it entirely on Friday so I could still go. Which means last week wasn’t problem free, must have happened on the drive home.

And when I was cleaning the boat I noticed the seal had come off the bung. I will need to sikaflex that again.

Snap