Well, well. A reasonable day fishing  at the Adelaide that will be remembered more for what we lost than what we caught. I had an approx 60cm barra inhale by hardbody lure with twin trebles on and spit it out like it was nothing, two minutes later Mud had an approx 80cm barra inhale a gold bomber (triple trebles) and spit it out. Twice in a row. Later we were bait fishing and I put the rod in the rod holder as the boat needed to be sured-up to stop it hitting the rocks…. BANG my line explodes. Wonder if that was the giant jewie we were chasing? 5 minutes later Mud hooks what was certainly a giant jew from the way it was fighting. Unfortunately during its third run it managed to break the line on something.

Got:
Me: Blue salmon
Mud: 57cm Barra, 2x Blue Salmon, medium cod

Story of the trip:
The missed jewie! Also I caught a puffer fish… nothing special there but this thing would have been 60cm. I have never seen anything like it. It was the size of a microwave.

Boat problems:
Transducer was smashed during last weeks retrieval. I thought it was working okay but it was not. I will need to get that replaced, or get a new one. Very annoying, something that could have been easily avoided. The department of fisheries said they would update their website after the email I wrote them, one week later this still has not happened. Just a matter of time before someone takes their advice like I did and has their boat damaged. I’m just glad I have a poly, the hull has lots of scratches after that, but no big deal I guess.

Fuel stats
11.5 litres, 38.2km. Max 41.2km

Snap
I guess it is hard to get a sense of scale….