Sneaky Move

Catch Report 8/11/2006

Seeing that today's tide was one of the highest ever since waiting almost for a month plus to happen, I decided to sneak off from work for an hour session. The wind was blowing southerly and so I proceeded to Iron Cove as it's been quite awhile since I visited that good ol' playground of ours.

As my old pink fireline has been very frayed, I had long wanted to respool in a new fireline. So I took all the old line out and took a pic to remind how my empty kix looks like.

Then, went to compleat angler store in the city to get a new roll of Fireline Crystal. This product is pretty brand new and is said to be partially invisible in the water! Don't know true a not... I remembered calling the guys up to check if they have the machine spooler. Basket told me have so I ruck up with Chen and went there. In the end put aeroplane say they don't have the machine and told me it's better to do it manually. So I've no choice let them do it for me though I know how to do that also! Assholes miss calculated the backing line and end up having to take out the new line again. They tied it to one of their Daiwa Airity reel and crank in at high speed not free spooling my reel! Then somemore thumb my spool and the zzzzz sound was damn loud! Wah, my drag was being tortured! I just stood there and stare blankly! Shit, my heart damn pain man... Hopefully my precious kix is ok...

Heck lah, proceeded to fishing IC and started at the drain 1st. Cast cast cast nothing, the tide was looking good and the wind was not perfect but manageable. Few times thought I got snag but managed to pull up 2 tree branches! Then did the shift and casted another side of the drain, 1st cast it got snagged! Damn it, I just rigged on a new 3" pseed bm! Then leader broke while I tried freeing the plastic so no choice had to re-tie new leader and opted for the Famell 8lb. Put on a used watermelon bm (haven't caught fish yet) and continued. Moved further down with no bites at all, until like half way through it got snagged big-time again! I tried flicking it out and not much persistence, it broke! Leader was still there but it was frayed, suggesting I got lodged by an oyster encrusted rock. I almost wanted to give up early and head back but changed to pinkie for one last try. Bought a attractant spray the other day and put some on pinkie. It was a Stimulate Ultrabite slow release attractant. The smell's not bad, really make my artificial smelled like dead fish.. haha.. 1st cast of pinkie and it got slammed big time on just a few cranks. The fight was good, and it made a few short runs. I thought it's gonna be a big one as the weight tells it all so I tried to guide the fish to a nearby step. Finally brought it up without much dramas and it measured 31cm.

Still continued awhile more before calling quits after 1.5 hours there. Oh well, one fish is better than being eating eggs.

Ronald