Star Of Team St Mikes

Catch Report 27/8/2006

Team St Mikes had a good feast of hotpot at home base the night before our boat quest. Had wanted to take a pic of the spread but forgot about it, probably too hungry. Jialiang called me saying he wanted to go too after his night marathon of soccer watching of the EPL. He claimed he will be a guest in this outing, I teased by saying more as a contractor. Hehe..

We set off to our usual spot 1st and anchoring had no drama. This time, William had joined us for his first time boating. We helped rigged Willie and Jeff while Jialiang as usual skippered our boat. Berleying was done on the clear water and as usual, heaps of yellowtails came in hoardes. This time, I tried to use a sabiki rig instead of the LJ rig. It seems to work better than the rest using LJ rig, though it can only catch yellowtail I supposed. Jeff scored a good start by pulling in an almost 50cm flathead within minutes of anchoring. Willie did also managed a trevally and a leatherjacket I presumed. Both me and Chen tried bottom bash in hope of port jackson shark but none of our baits were touched except Chen had 2 of his hooks bitten off. Jialiang didn't do well on his squid bait and had slept most time at this spot due to his late night soccer marathon.

We then changed spot after almost spending 3 hours there. At Clifton Gardens, Willie scored a whiting 1st by bottom bashing while Jeff did get a flounder as well as Willie too. Then, Jialiang managed to score all the breams for the boat that day while the star of the day was Chen getting 3 hookups of silver trevallies and having the fight of his time with 2 fishes going 40cm. All hookups were presumably within the space of 10 minutes. By then, the boat man had called me that we must return the boat by 1pm as there was a pre-book for it. Seems that I'm the only one with no contribution that day until mayhem breaks loose. On a particular cast, I let out more line. While I was chatting about "deep-fried flounder", my rod buckled and I instantly strike. The fish ran hard and I had to stand up near the boat edge to fight the balance. It was very exhilarating and I could feel my arms sore from holding the rod. Anyway, it didn't surfaced enough to let me see how big it was, but for sure it was the fight of a big silver trevally. It went underneath the boat and probably got stucked on the berley pot rope and I could feel that my leader was rubbing against the boat hull. Guessed it wasn't my day and the leader just gave way instantly and that was it, with a point in time when Willie's line got onto my rod and fireline! I admit I wasn't impressed about it but that's fishing, you gain some and you lose some. Still, I'm contented to at least got the 5-6 minutes of thrill.


























Ronald