Seisia - Blog 5

A keen fishing couple J&K we met at the Holiday park had gone for a couple days up to Punsand Bay.   They were hiring a boat and fishing Jackey Jackey Creek and due to our mutual interest we were meeting up.

0730am here we are at the Fishbone Creek boat ramp with one vision in our minds.  The 6 metre handbag that lies beneath that muddy water that we can't see in.

Boat ramp at Fishbone Creek

What lies beneath ???

Needless to say launching the boat is normally an easy process however we stumbled, could not get the latches undone, boat off runner, we may as well have put tags around our necks with "free meal" !

The Jackey Jackey is a huge mangrove system.  We decided to investigate the tributary and try for some live bait.  Well, useless and useless could use more practice, or pay more attention to the video at cast netting, because with more than a dozen casts we caught a grand total of zero live bait !  We did manage however to cover ourselves and the boat in mud.  J&K had some luck and landed a few.  We were just glad we had some frozen pilchards for backup and our Queenie fillets.

This is where J&K's luck changed and the poor buggers couldn't get their hire boat into gear.  Further investigation found their propeller had fallen off.  They had an electric engine, and it was decided they would fish the general area ,and we would go further up into the system to a spot determined as a potentially good fishing area by our fish finder book.

Reviewing the Fish Finder book for some direction

Yes that is a Cod on the end of that line.

We drifted around for a time coming across the smallest cod
with the biggest mouths!





Then we found a little deeper water and landed a small 45cm Threadfin Salmon, this was promising.  It was his lucky day as we were here for the parents, so we whispered that in his ear and let him go then anchored up.  First bite bent the rod in half and bit off the hook, line and sinker.  Shark maybe?  We then spent the next 2 hours reeling in numerous good size Salmon.  We did catch one fairly large shark that we cut off at side of the boat.  That didn't deter further catches.  What a day...Yum.

Too small but promising.

Now that's a better size

We found a nice hole containing the Threadfin Salmon

We towed the hire boat back to the boat ramp via J&K's two empty crab pots.  Other campers had said they did not have any luck with crabs as well.

made it hard for J&K to fish

 

No luck with their boat, 

Big filleting day until late.

Need to bring your own hose/fittings

A few fillets - yum