Apollo Bay Inkers

Nicole and I just spent 6 days in Apollo Bay. Although a romantic holiday as it's the last one before the baby comes, you cannot go to Apollo Bay without fishing! The first few days had perfect weather, but I was good and spent time with the wife. I was released from the saturday onwards so of course sat, sun and mon were all ridiculously windy and raining. Monday night at about 7pm I decided enough was enough and headed to the pier, armed with a squid jig. First 2 casts landed squid, the fourth I dropped one lifting it up and about half an hour later I landed another one, much to the disappointment of the guy next to me who had put in 8 hours for nothing. I think it must have been the jig (Colour/size/sink rate) as I didn't know what I was doing. Tuesday morning I arrived at the pier around 7am with Nicole heading over to a cafe for breakfast. First cast I had a monster in only to lose it halfway up the pier. I managed to land another 3, one of which was quite large.
Tuesday at about 11am I took the kayak to the Aire River, and launched it it windy conditions. First cast of the vibe was followed up by a healthy little bream, but over the next hour and a half I spent more time trying to get into a good position for the drift as I did casting. I also learnt that my environet acts as a sail. I did see numerous large splashes under the old bridge, making me assume that there could be a jewie or two in the system. I gave up when I was soaking wet from the rain and headed back to the cabin.
Wednesday morning I got to the marina at 5.30 to meet a fellow AKFF'er. I moseyed around the moored boats for 2 hours, boating 4 squid and he arrived at 7.30 and we headed out. He showed me a great reef that runs off the breakwall and with a 4" GULP "pillie" minnow I was on almost every cast. As soon as it hit the water pike would hit it. Really quite good size pike, however they are basically useless and we let them all go. We left a hot bite as I had to head back in and leave for home, but it was a lot of fun - My first open ocean experience in the kayak and some squid to target jewies in Westernport!