Left an hour earlier the second day and with the extra hour of tide (high tide an hour later) it should give us 2hrs more water. And it did. Plenty of water to launch. It's amazing how fast that place drains out.
Fishing was slow as expected in the start. Jeff asked me when do you expect the bite to start? I looked at the tide curve and said about an hour. And as Jeff said any minute now, my rod went off. First salmon went 96cm to the fork I quickly followed it up with a 2nd And a 3rd (much to Jeff's disgust) It was then that I suggested that Jeff change his lure colour. So he did and it wasn't long before he was rewarded At this point we realized that out of about 5 boats, we were the only ones catching any fish. It wasn't until later when the guide boats turned up (when I thought they were going to start to bite) that everyone started to catch fish. At this stage maybe 15 boats in total, so good day really.
Many more fish got landed Also released a few at the boat No barra but did see one about 80cm free jumping. Didn't see anyone else catch one either. Final tally was 4 kept (96, 89, 89, 86cm) out of a total of 12. Just as many more lost. Will be busy there on the weekend. Steady stream of boats heading out as we were coming home
