i finally break the Whiting Curse. well not so much a curse but more so a self implied limitation of my own doing.
over the weekend i decided to hit up the squid down PPB south. we did ok and was just starting to work out where they were and nek minute over 15 odd boats progressively decided to drop anchor right in our drift paths.
we soon worked out that these boats were all catching whiting.
the Age old saying, cant beat em then join em was what came to my mind.
for some reason my cousin had 2 whiting rigs in his bag, we found our own small patch and deployed the motorguide to hold and started to fish with the fresh squid candles we had just caught.
my first hookup was a double hookup, in the excitment of not knowing wether to lift them in or use the net, one of them fell off right at the boat
anyway, this is when the fun starts, fish are everywhere, but i feel somehting isnt right, sure enough we are sitting wayy too close to some other boats, something which wasnt the case a few minutes ago.
turns out the motorguide isnt holding in the raging current.
so now for the first time of owning my boat i have to work out how to use the anchor.
i cant drive, position the boat and throw the anchor out myself, so i decided to let my cousin handle the boat while i do the anchor duties as it was the easiest way to handle the situation, 20 seconds into it i knew it wasnt as the boat nearly hit another boat by drifting away, cosuin wasnt paying attention to what was happening even after i told him to make sure we dont move away....
we swap roles, and finally after **** farting around deploy the anchor.
by the time we were settled and back into the fishing, the whiting had moved away.
ah well, atleast we got 5 of them in like 10 minutes we could fish, biggest went 41cm.
thats it for now.
cheers
