Well the FED and I being the “fair weather” fisher people that we are; decided Thursday was the day!
Late start because low tide wasn’t until 14:10. Still managed to get down to the boat ramp at about 08.00.
Even managed to get a load of washing on the line before we left.

Isn’t it funny that when you are NOT in a rush you work more quickly?

Knew it was going to be different

We had launched the boat and we were just about to push off from the wharf and what did we see coming down the river?
3 Army gun boats (30 ft ribs with front mounted BIG guns – like you see on Sea Patrol) with full crews in battle dress “gunning it” down the river! Boy did they ever put out some serious wash! FED only managed a shot of their wake.
That was before we even started!

Knew it was going to be different

Then when we arrived in the Bay! (Technically speaking it is still the Georges River.) Just past the St George Sailing Club between the first and second red channel markers before you reach Towra Pt, there were fins in the water. One rather close to a bloke in a tinny. So we slowed down to see what was going on … if they had been sharks I don’t know what we would have done if the bloke had gone into the water.
NO! Not sharks but a small pod of dolphins … mum, dad and junior between them and a couple of others. The pup was so cute and small, about the size of a decent kingie! Haven’t viewed the video yet to see if I got any shots of them.

Knew it was going to be different

Then just off Ramsgate there were these “birds” floating around in the channel … Mother duck and her ducklings. Give me a break … it wasn’t even 9am!

Knew it was going to be different

Just a bit early to anchor up so decided to go for a troll outside … once out of the wash from the mouth of the bay it was quite smooth out there. Caught a couple of bonito with quite a few fish on the sounder. Should have loaded up with more fuel, it was calm enough to do a few laps. Came back in and headed for Bare Is.

Still too early to anchor up at the Bombie so we went over to Suction for a cuppa and to rig our rods. That was the last quiet moment we had.

Knew it was going to be different

Anchored up at the spot given to us by Mr Jumpus, berleying up; all was quiet for about for about 30 mins with an occasional bite and then ...POW!
Then came the fishies … all I could do for the first 40 mins was catch shovel nosed sharks and a wobbegong AND lose hooks… mean while FED was landing trevally hand over fist.
All he kept saying was …”the fish will start biting soon …”

Lost a few good sized fish and got broken off a few times as well. Quite a few under-sized reddies out there. At one stage we could only manage one rod each as there were so many hook-ups. Took me 15 mins to re-rig one rod. The other one just kept going off!
3 hours of fun …

THEN THE NOREASTERLY SPRANG UP! Wasn’t supposed to be THAT gusty 10 knots turned into 15+.

Knew it was going to be different

So crept back to the safety of the river with chop and wind up our rear and headed home.

Final fish keeper tally:-
6 (good sized) trevally and a couple of bonito for bait.

Final viewing tally:-
3 armed Army ribs
1 pod of dolphins with pup
1 batch of ducks swimming in the Bay
1 Coast Guard vessel up the Georges R.
1 Police boat checking out the bathers on Little Congwong Beach
3 idiots on PWCs causing havoc to boaters launching/retrieving boats just to show off to their mates

Knew it was going to be different … but it was a GREAT DAY!

Good one. I saw the water at 10am and it was a millpond and just glorious. Wind came up shortly afterwards and it looked really uncomfortable outside of Port Hacking. Glad you got into some fish and saw some other wildlife besides Fed.

Nice work SF, sounds like you were on the spot. Trevs are fun on light gear Jumpy is out there at the moment.

Not enymore Tm nit

Top day 2b on the water again crabs tasted bootifull the other night & thought I'd ketch me sum more

1st had to get sum squiddy's & didn't even bother in the bay, ran out the Shinny heads & up nth to my secret sneaky spot & it didn't disappoint was ketching them @ will now that the water is clean wunce again.

Only prob was most were horses & had melons on them the size of My Ed

Back into the bay to ketch sum blurters for crab bait that didn't take long @ all so off I went on my merry way to drop the hats

Time to race across the bay 2 C if the Girly fush were about, wasn't to optimistic cause with all the running around I'd allready done failed to see the baitfish that were around last munday.

not even a touch on the squid so thought tide turns after tree snuck back to the bommy & anchored up

Did get sum nice legal snappy toms but the blurters were about in big no's knocking off all the baits, mind ewes the blurt blurt fush had grown since last trip got fush over 50 cm's.

Sick of catching blurt blurts pulled anchor up & went to pull up the hats & watto a pleasant surprise a doz blue swimmerer's & 1/2 of them were humungus

Did you see any red slime out there Jumpy?
We went over a patch that looks like blood, was wondering what it was until I saw it on the news that night.

Nope

no red slime where i was