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The south coast is starting to fish very well offshore, with all signs pointing to a great snapper season over the cooler months. Locals Craig and Greg both launched at an unholy hour - I launched at 7.40am and met them on the water, after driving from Canberra with a Braidwood bakery detour.
Conditions were wonderful for chasing snapper in close, with a light breeze and overcast skies. The day had started slowly for Greg and Craig with only one just legal snapper for Greg. I was keen to compare the GULP 5" jerk shads with the regular Powerbait 5" jerk shads, so had one of each out. Just as we came together for a chat, the rod with the nuclear chicken GULP went off and a nice 40cm snapper came aboard.
I had been chatting to Greg for quite a while when I saw something move on the back of his kayak, and realised that he had taken his black lab out for the trip. She was very well behaved! I got another the same snapper the same size as the first on the Powerbait jerk shad, and then a beautiful morwong on the GULP. The day rolled along and a few more nice fish hit the decks.
Craig caught a real trophy sized red rock cod of which he should be very proud Greg caught the snapper of the day, a very fat 2kg fish, and had just finished telling me about how morwong are his favourite fish to eat, and that he hadn't caught one in the past 6 years, when I caught another one.
This seemed to raise Greg's ire a touch, so I felt pretty bad when I caught another mowie next cast. And just as Greg left for the beach my last rod went off and I received a royal dusting, probably a good snapper which buried me in the kelp.
Conditions were wonderful for chasing snapper in close, with a light breeze and overcast skies. The day had started slowly for Greg and Craig with only one just legal snapper for Greg. I was keen to compare the GULP 5" jerk shads with the regular Powerbait 5" jerk shads, so had one of each out. Just as we came together for a chat, the rod with the nuclear chicken GULP went off and a nice 40cm snapper came aboard.
I had been chatting to Greg for quite a while when I saw something move on the back of his kayak, and realised that he had taken his black lab out for the trip. She was very well behaved! I got another the same snapper the same size as the first on the Powerbait jerk shad, and then a beautiful morwong on the GULP. The day rolled along and a few more nice fish hit the decks.
Craig caught a real trophy sized red rock cod of which he should be very proud Greg caught the snapper of the day, a very fat 2kg fish, and had just finished telling me about how morwong are his favourite fish to eat, and that he hadn't caught one in the past 6 years, when I caught another one.
This seemed to raise Greg's ire a touch, so I felt pretty bad when I caught another mowie next cast. And just as Greg left for the beach my last rod went off and I received a royal dusting, probably a good snapper which buried me in the kelp.
