Portarlington 17th

Portarlington, St Leonards, Queenscliff
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Portarlington 17th

Post by Nude up » Wed Mar 17, 2021 8:33 pm

A late start today 10 am few minor jobs to get done but I couldn't waste the day. I headed down to Clifton springs a quick 8k run past the mussel farm from port. I had bought a new squid jig recommended to me by some you tube squid guru I met its called cucumber green with black stripes.
I was by myself so I was going to have 2 sleeper rods and one in the hand. I flicked the cucumber out turned round to get the next rod and bang it was on I couldn't believe it. 1 squid in the bucket ripper I flicked out the other 2 jigs in my go to colours prawn and a gold with brown. 2 drifts nothing I was a bit disappointed I thought I was going to be in with the green one.
I changed jigs to silver and blue and my luck changed 6 more drifts bag of 10. One was an arrow head squid which I have never caught at Clifton springs only on Prince George bank.
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I headed back to port out to the start of the channel and started to drift using pilchards and squid 3 banjos 2 swell sharks and loads of flathead with 14 of them over 30 cm back at the ramp for 230.
The wind dropped off to nothing I had to bring my drogue in to get any drift.
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Re: Portarlington 17th

Post by Lightningx » Wed Mar 17, 2021 9:51 pm

Top catch mate!
Would have been a beautiful day on the water.
Cheers 👍🏻

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Re: Portarlington 17th

Post by purple5ive » Thu Mar 18, 2021 8:09 am

cucumber is a good jig, one of mine is on the reef somewhere in st leonards area.

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Re: Portarlington 17th

Post by Andrews » Fri Mar 19, 2021 6:53 pm

I think cucumber is the perfect way to describe that jig, loving seeing those nicer sized squid too!
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