Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Out with Dad and his neighbor this morning to my spot x to try get D onto some decent snapper as she had only ever caught pannies.
Conditions were pretty shit to be fair with about 15knt offshore wind and a really short sharp 1m swell and the old 1.5m.
We swung round on the ankor in the wind and swell but at least we had current.
Things were slow to start..we had current...two burlys down.
I pulled one up to check and cut all the plastic off it for a faster deploy and a few min later Dad is on with a spiky dog....far canal.....let's stick it out it's only one.
Then dad's on with a nice eater snapper.


Then I get a good one on my strayline and bloody bust it off about half way up.....bloody numpty I had too much drag on and with it chewing the trace I just busted it off.
Redemption came quickly tho and I got a nice snap as did D on my other rod



During the double hook up excitement Dad had dropped his line and left his rod in neutral in the rod holder which naturally had caught a small spiky dog who took it oround the main where it proceeded to wrap a hundred meters of braid around it.
It just wouldn't be fishing with Dad if he didn't do that at least once per trip
Gumboots off, everything out of pockets I'm out the back...not a shit show of untangeling it I cut it and pull as much as I can out of in front of the prop and cut free.
I thought about getting in to clear it but the way the boat was pitching I would have got a prop in the face so just cleared as best I could with a knife.
All in all a good morning,plan came together 6 nice big snapper landed, a few unintentional releases...lots of tangles in props burlys other lines etc back on the trailer at 1130 just as the wind started to ease.