I decided to go for a fish with a mate on Port Hacking
It looked windy the night before so when i got up i looked at; the surf cam of cronulla on coastwatch (digital TV), wind outside my place and decided it was on like donkey kong it was fantastic.

We headed out at 11am (gentleman's hours) from Grays point ramp, pumped ourself some nippers from the rapidly submerging sand flats.

The sea temp was 18.4Deg, wind was about a FREEZING 10 knots, with only small wind chop. The tide was flooding in pretty quickly.
We fished in jumpers, long pants, shoes socks as it was sooo cold, ive not fished like that for a while.

Pulled up and my recent favourate place and started fishing. With in seconds of our baits hitting the bottom we were on. Mate dropped 2 good fish and we pulled in a few smaller flatties, bream & I got a 27cm flounder (which i released), then it went very quiet. We had live healthy nippers crawling around on the bottom not being touched!

Getting a little bored I re-spooled a reel with 4.5 pound line and a 6pound leader and started flicking soft plastics. first cast, drift and giggle and wham! got myself a 47cm Sand flatty.

Pic below sorry forgot to get a whole pic.


We bagged him for tea.

Recasting again wham!! another 40cm flatty all on soft plastics which i did find a bit finny as we had great looking fresh baits out and the good old soft plastics were winning.

i released him back into the Hacking to fight for another day.

after it got quiet again we moved to a few other places picked up a few more smaller flatties, bream and pinkies which we released due to being under size.

Around 1600 we called it quits (wind was getting colder) and in the end of the day we had fun we kept the only fish we needed and had a good day.

Andy

Brave man...... Battling the cold like that

Good report, sounds like a fun day. you need to show me around the hacking a bit as you have more luck than I have over there.

If/When you do I'll bring the camera so there will be more pics


Jack

Yep Yep it's been bloody cold

Good one pirate I like the gentleman's hrs thingy never like getting out b4 lunchtime myself



Good wittle flatty on the plastics

best part as on light 4.5lb line with 6lb leader!

and we only took what we needed!

On another note the water issue with my donk seems to have cleared, after a bit more cleaning and blowing air in here and there etc the tell tail jet is nice and strong! woot woot thanks Jumpus for the thermostat tip. Funny thing is i did not really get anything out when cleaning, must have been enough to flush it out though.

I an still chasing the voltage issue at full rpm i'm getting 16.9V...way too high!

i spend too much time at work getting up early, being wet & cold on boats, i'm not about to do the same when out fishing socially!




I'm sure i'm not that good i'm thinking it was more the hat i was wearing at the time....all blue with the words "VIVA tackle" stitched on it. :Happy:

Now I see why you do not fish weekends

No parking left at the ramp at 11.

Jack

that too!

yesterday i saw about half a dozen boats on the hacking it was so quiet and peacefully (of the 6 boats we saw 2 were maritime cats)

Jack you may have to take a sickie one day to fish mid week!

I wouldn't even think of fushing the hacking on a weekend

pirate just take the goat down to Chris let him get the meters onto the motor & pin point the prob.

I'm pretty handy with motors but certain things I leave alone & get him to sort out.

Prob have to go down there this arvo if my new helm arrives

I have some time in lieu accumulated that I may have to use for this. Being a contractor sickies cost way too much money.

Maybe next week is a little warmer.


Jack

great report mate, i like the cold myself and much prefer to fish in the winter

Great fishing A PRIATE.

Fishing during winter is ok. I think that it might be a little bit too cold during the day. You should get up early and go in the wee morning hours.

u are so wright christos, there is nothing like a cold crisp morning to get the blood flowing

Suppose the engines love the cold air to make the best power! i know my car does.

Yeah Jumpus Ill try to take my boat to chris some time in the next few days.

I may brave it one morning...i hate the cold so if i go ill be the boofoon with the ski jacket , beanie, gloves on etc.