Day 1 we got on the water around 5.30 - 6.00 am and launched behind the small island across from the power station , bait collection was our first problem , not knowing the area made it slow going - We tryed for squid without any luck and a few trolled lures me included but the floating weed was quite a problem
a couple of salmon and snook were turned into live bait and some trolling the power station was on
there were a few hits but no hook ups
later in the day Milton ( one of the South ozzie kayakers ) gave me the nod they are here with a lot of marks good solid archs on the sounder , then a boat hooked up to something solid right near us
then Milton got a what looked to be a solid hook up but the same 30 kg fish had gone around his line
this fish was landed on the boat
below a few of the crew on the way to some bait grounds day 1
Day 2 with the weed being what it was I took some bait ( guess what Pt Augusta has a Cole so I bought some Banana prawn ) I parked up where the guys had picked up Snook and salmon the day before and picked up a few KG whiting which became my live bait
only thing that latched on was a blue swimmer crab that cut the whiting in half and dropped off right beside the yak
a couple of the other guys got hits on trolled dead baits but no hook ups then the school moved on by the time I was ready to troll my liveys
Day 3 the wind was up and being the last day we did give it a go this time heading 3 km into a stiff head wind 10 - 15 knott and oncoming tide ( damm hard work ) this was to try another piece of ground that was ment to hold squid
even with a the sea anchor out the driff was fast so out with the anchor and bait on what looked like productive grounds for only 1 toad
with out the drift shoot 6.5 kph going by the GPS the wind was ripping along
so the trip was full of donuts but a good learning curve for next time and yes there will be another trip west to try again next year at a guess
this season going by the locals has been slow with them blaming the water temps through the gulf slow to rise
seeing a 30 kg fish at least landed got our mouths watering - what a challenge that would be on the kayak
by the way every one we met liked to tell us about there pet jumping great white - it wasn't sighted in the flesh but a really big black marks mid water on the sounder greeted a couple of guys over the first couple of days
We have no doubt that the shark or sharks was about
