My fishing report - James Hopewell ___________________________ As a teenage kid, I like my sleep-ins. Although, its a completely different story when there is a reason like fishing to wake up. I was awoken by my alarm clock at the inopportune time of 4:00, to pack the car, and then go and wake the step-dad up. With the target species of pink snapper, we drove straight south, to depart from the marina at 5:30 sharp. We headed straight out with no intent to mess around. We arrived at the spot, sounded around, and once we found the fish we drove back over them. Being a skinny kid, my whole body shivered as I stood leaning against the bow rail, with the ice cold morning wind cutting through my back. Facing land, the sun hadnt even appeared over the eastern horizon yet. Watching my plastic disappear underwater, and then waiting for them to hit the bottom was painfully anticipating. It took a few minutes to finally drift back over the school of fish, and it was complete mayhem once we were on top of them. With an organised 6-way hookup, and drags screaming, I can say it was one of the biggest smiles on my face I have ever grinned. Later throughout the session, once it was less chaos and the fish werent all hitting at once, I switch out the rod and reel for a Daiwa Aird 1-3kg, along side a Stradic Ci4+ 2500, paired with 10lb braid and a 20lb leader. As the fish were holding tight to the bottom, I twitched my plastic roughly half a meter from the bottom. The half ounce jig head bent the rod over with each lift. I knew that there was going to be some serious pain once there was a fish on, and I was actually pretty scared of the consequences of getting absolutely blitzed on a rod and reel as light as I was using. The snapper werent being picky with little taps, and once one hit, I set the hook in it’s hard, boney mouth and held on as it makes its first run back to the bottom. With the extremely light, bream orientated gear I was using, each fish landed took from five to fifteen minutes. With a sore left wrist due to having no butt, and new personal bests on light gear, I was extremely happy. It’s not going to be long until I get back out, in search of the magic meter long Pinky which I want to land on the same gear.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 16:24:14 +0000
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