I joined FishRaider forums recently, amongst the members that commented on my Facebook Page, it turned out that one of them, Duong is a relative of a good friend from France. The world is small as the say.
Yesterday Duong decided to do a session in Bondi Beach targetting Sambos. I was tired from waking up at 5am (unplanned), but decided to join Duong anyway. For the whole of this Spring, all I caught were undersized whiting, sharks and undersized Tailor, so I was really hopping this session would be a success.
I got there at around 8.23pm but found that somehow the rig I prepared got tangled with a sabiki rig that slipped out its bag. So I wasted time trying to undo the tangle to end up tying a new one.
Duong arrived not long after with a sea popper rig and he too managed to get it tangled. There are days like this :-P
Rig done, I casted a fillet of Yellowtail with my Alvey rod and the 6000BCVRRT reel from my mate. The rig was a paternoster rig with a single twisted dropper loop with a two size 3/0 ganged hooks and a 3oz no-roll sinker.
Right after my cast my friend's bait net and the rod holder used to secure it to the sand got washed by a big shore break. So I dropped my pants and was going to go in the water to fetch it. But then my friend who then was holding my rod yelled fish on and it was bloody heavy. So I ran back and continue the fight. After few pulls and jumps, it was a nice 59.5cm Sambo!
Second cast, not even a minute after the bait touched water another big Sambo!!
After that it was my friend's turn to have his reel's fish alert hissssing through the night. Two other Sambos, one on full pilchard one on yellowtail fillet, and a Shovelnose Shark.
The other fishermen who arrived a bit later were not as lucky. The two main reasons being I was the first on the beach and made camp right in front of a nice big gutter, probably the only decent one on the night. And then when they arrived, I think the school was on its was out and my buddy was just placed right on their way to catch the two last one we got.
What a night! That was my first decent session of this Spring. I was a good decision, I was a bit sleepy before leaving home but the fish did wake me up hehehe. At the end we've lost the rod holder (DIY) and the bait net, but the 5 fish made up for it, no regret from any of us.
Cooking side, one of the Australian Salmon will go in the freezer, the other one will be partly eaten as Sashimi and the Shovelnose Shark is nice in Vietnamese sweet and sour fish soup.
We are having our neighbour from downstairs for a fishy diner tonight.
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