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Shallow water surf pinkies.; Wooks spot fires up.
Topic Started: Jun 18 2014, 08:06 PM (498 Views)
Moohan
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As I did my did my nightly surf report check on Saturday night, a nice swell spike on the graph piqued my interest. A quick glance at Tuesday/Wednesday wind inicator arrow quickly ruled out any quality surf, but my mind quickly turned to other things. A brown arrow (imaginativley coloured as such when the winds become so strong, that seabreeze reccomends wearing your brown undies should you venture outside the warm comfort of your living room).

I'd been hanging for another decent front after Wookie had introduced me to a spot where he'd nailed a few pinkies in recent times. Our session that night yielded a ray each, and a nice chunky Tailor for myself, but no dice on the pinkies. To fuel the fires a bit more, Wookie nailed a good Pinkie and Salmon the next day. I started popping down to the old Mandurah traffic bridge on my evenings off to stock up on baits while my wife watched some chick porn/reno show called "House Rules". It didn't take long to get stocked up on Herring and Yellowtail with both voraciously smashing small soft plastics jigged in the current. Meanwhile, Wookie had been putting his Ewok to work catching baits too, I assume while he sat back and cruised ebay for Starwars fanboy paraphenalia.

The sight of that promising graph had my casting trigger finger getting antsy, and I quickly fired off an email to Wook, who replied "your ears must have been burning", and outlined his plan of attack.

Tuesday proved to be pretty wild with strong winds and heavy rain. I knocked off work a bit after midnight and arranged to meet Wook at the predesignated spot. Strong winds and heavy rain gave way to clear skies and relenting winds as we arrived. I think this was the part where mother nature tried to lull us into a false sense of security.

As we set up, the wind came back up, the stars were blotted out by inky cloud and the rain started to come in sideways. Baits were set and we settled in for the wait. I set about pouring myself a coffee, which was promptly getting blown out of the cup by the wind. A bit of attention on my slide bait yellowtail early on resulted in a stolen bait. A little while later my grapnel anchored herring started to get some attention. After the fish mouthed the bait for a short time, I lifted the rod tip and was rewarded with a solid hook up with promising head shakes and some line being ripped off the drag. I knew I'd hooked something decent, probably that elusive Pinkie I'd wanted for two decades. My current state of sleep depravation makes things a bit vague, but I may have been babbling and yipping excitedly, while Wook offered wise counsel like "Don't peak too early" and "Enjoy your banjo ray". Daz turned up as I turned the fishes head , just in time to witness a last surge resulting in a structure popped leader. Yep, I was devo, thinking I'd blown my chance at popping my pinky cherry.

After making a bad call earlier about a fish that turned into a ball of weed, and rain squall heralded Wookies first hook up, and after a decent tussle a nice pinky surfed up the beach to Wookies feet. After quickly necking the fish, Wookie set about giving me shit about my lost fish and his current lead on the score card.

I knew it was going to take a decent specimen to ease the pain of that first lost fish. A few tentative knocks of my herring bait alerted me to an interested fish, and I raised my rod tip to see if there was weight. What weight there was felt like the usual well set grapnel, until a headshake and a sudden strong run had me taking a couple of steps towards the water in suprise. This time, the fish ran long and hard against a heavy drag, and I realised this hook up was in a different league from my previous one. With the fish taking line at will, I was worried that this fish would too find structure. After some bullocking runs, the fish seemed to run out of steam and allowed itself to be pumped up onto the beach on an incoming wave. I hadnt gotten a good look at it, so I was stoked to hear Wookie call it as a Pinkie, and then Wookie and Daz exclaim it was a horse. My land based Pinky cherry was popped with a 8.4 kg, 90 cm hump headed Pink. Hi fives and handshakes went down quickly, but within a minute Daz was hooked up. 5 minutes later, a similar lengthed fish was glowing in the whitewash.

As dawn approached, both Wookie and Daz finished their bag with decent fish, with Wook hassling me to get another one so we could call it a morning. Wookie set up a lighter set up in the hope of some Pink C&R fun, but unfortunately dropped a fish. I'm sure if the hooks found their mark ,he would have copped some curry. A bit of bird activity had me prospecting with a lure casting set up, while my bait rod sat in the holder. My lure casting was interupted by a yell by Wookie, and I turned to see a deep curve in my bait rod. In short order, I had a second smaller pinky on the beach, resulting in us all having our bag of two fish.

As we started to pack up, the dark bruised sky and ever advancing lightning to the South West had us moving with a sense of urgency. Faster than we expected, the system was on top of us with strong squally winds, and more painfully, wind driven marble sized hail that left the beach with a snow like blanket.

After a quick snow/ice fight, it was time to get out of there. Fish were discretely covered to avoid prying eyes threatening to blow an under exposed spot, and we trekked back to the cars. I was off to try get a short sleep in before heading back to work, where I'm suffering now. it was all worth it to get my first LB pinky though.

Cheers Wook for putting me onto some good fish, I owe you one.
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Numbskull
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Yes. Jealous
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TravGrundy
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Solid pinks mate. Great work
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Moohan
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Forgot to mention, the smaller Pink had a squid and a piece of Wookies cubed up herring in it's gut, bigger Pink had half an Abalone, including shell.
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smile on your face was thanks enough mate.
absolute cracker of a fish, well deserved. hellova first fish.

i like this photo best. taken within 5 mins of the capture, your face is priceless.
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Goodie
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so so good well done!
Oh its on!
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smokey
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Congratulations moohan, great feeling when u finally crack that elusive fish. Good job wookie.
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rob dulson
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LEG-END ,Nice work ,what happened chilli/numb .
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Lefty
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Hell of a write up and some awesome Pinkies.
Well done lads and we all wish we were there.
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jugglerman
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Nice work- Abalone guts is a favourite burley for Pinkies back home in NZ.
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K1W1
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Great effort fellas, jealous as.

They say "the early bird gets the worm"... Not a problem, worms all yours birdy. I'll get up around noon and fish a dry fly - Hank Patterson
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Chess Shark
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Very nice effort there! ;)
PB Black Bream 48cm, PB Silver Bream [Tarwhine] 37cm, PB KG Whiting 52cm, PB Mulloway 18kg, PB Tailor 3kg,
PB Salmon 5kg, PB Snapper 3kg, PB Samson 25kg, PB Snook 75cm, PB Flathead 45cm, PB Gummie 100cm, PB Hammerhead 35kg
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Herring are not a food fish they are best used as bait for bigger fish.....
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Lefty
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Any chance you can share the rig set up?
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Moohan
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Jun 19 2014, 02:55 PM
Any chance you can share the rig set up?
Mine were taken 2 snelled 8/0 ssw owner "J" hooks on about 30 or 40 cm of 80 pound trace, running off a crossline swivel. Then about a metre of lighter sinker trace running down to a grapnel sinker. I suspect Wookies rig would have been similar, though he snelled more hooks due to the other weeks "Precision Tailor" (Tailor biting his herring where ever the hooks wern't), and was just running a bomb/snapper sinker rather than a grapnel. Is that about right Wook?
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SnappaDan
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Hell yeah awesome stuff fellas, congratulations glad to see the efforts were rewarded.
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yep i started off with 3 (1x 8/0 2x6/0)circle hooks in case the precision tailor turned up again, but i cut the lower 6/0 hook off pretty soon as the baits didnt want to sit right.
about 30cm of 100lb trace to a 3 way crane swivel. 70 -100cm of 40lb sinker trace so the sinker is below the bait. 6oz spoon or 8oz snapper lead to hold bottom but i was a bit lighter yesterday to get a bit of movement around. just trying new things.
i prefer circles and have my drag up pretty firmly so when the fish hits it gets hooked up by the rod loading up.
i usually have a heavier setup and a lighter setup so if i catch my 2 fish and i have time ill change to the lighter setup for sport.

daz has a very simple rig of one, 2 or sometimes 3 dropper loops with an 8/0 circle simply threaded onto the loop. finished with an overhand sinker loop at the bottom. he only uses 3 or maybe 4oz max as he likes the bait to move around in the wash.

mooh one of the pinkies had a half digested yakka, the other was full of crushed up crab.
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Probably my yakka that got smashed at the begining of the sesh...... So by rights, that's my snapper hey? :-p
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it was old and digested mooh so probably not. no sign of hooks or trauma to the mouth either. as soon as i saw the yakka i had a good look for any evidence. i was looking forward to telling you i caught your failure :P
so my fish!!!

BUT
as your fish was full of my burley that is clearly half mine. my effort and your reward. i dont think you should be able to claim that one. also my constant encouragement ('dont F**k this one up mooh' and 'careful of the rocks mooh, theee roooockkkssss') needs to be taken into account. clearly its mostly my fish.

you also still owe me pre-arranged price of the spot too.
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You can have the little one full of burley Wook, I'm a generous man :p As for pre-arranged price, it's a job I think I should outsource..... Come out to the Armadale line and I'll pay one of our regulars the $2 asking price ;)
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Ox11
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Awesome fishing
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James cohen
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great stuff guys, always nice get get rewarded for fishing in the storms.
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Excellent catch!!!

Numbskull and I were out that night and didnt catch any pinks. Had a few runs, probably sharks or rays.
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Dave Bentley
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Well done to you all.

Welcome to Wookies Pink Hole, bet he's heard that before.

Mate what about letting us know where the Hole is, promise we won't tell any one else.
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Goodie
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See ya round soon dave I think
Oh its on!
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Dave Bentley
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Jun 21 2014, 04:13 PM
See ya round soon dave I think
HaHa, What time have you got the alarm set for.
Edited by Dave Bentley, Jun 21 2014, 05:03 PM.
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Goodie
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Trying this evening. Then up at 4.30 for high tide later
Oh its on!
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Colin Molloy
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AWESOME write Moohan and bloody well done on some great fish!

I know of a few spots down Albany way where literally thousands of boats speed over that have produced Pinkies in the 4.5 to 6.0 range - shows you don't have to go far out - just the right approach, conditions, time of year and a lil luck, plus fresh bait!
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We used to say that about the less accessible south coast cliff spots, still 30+ metres of water within casting distance with structure, and boats wouldn't hit it because of proximity to the rocks. We dived some of these spots, it was like diving in the Aqwa tank.
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Jun 21 2014, 10:02 PM
We used to say that about the less accessible south coast cliff spots, still 30+ metres of water within casting distance with structure, and boats wouldn't hit it because of proximity to the rocks. We dived some of these spots, it was like diving in the Aqwa tank.
Yup and proof of that is that huge pinky taken off the stones down here recently.
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