Mornington 04/04 - Squid vicious!

A quick report for my first fishing session from the Outback. I absolutely loved it, however over the short distance managed to feel cramped (I'm 6'1" so I'm sure there are taller blokes in Outbacks - Suggestions?) but it more than made up for itself with the hands free fishing!

I awoke at 5.45 and ate a quick breakfast and arrived at Mornington about 6.45. It was still a bit dark (Forgot my light) so I messed around setting up for 15 minutes or so then launched at 7am as the light was appearing. First cast was nailed as soon as it hit the water. As was the second, third, fourth and so on. No massive squid, but the perfect bait size (Heading to Glenelg next week so will have some "million dollar bills" for the jewies). They were attacking anything that I threw at them. I kept my bag, probably caught 15-20 in all with many released and was off the water by 7.30 (Half an hour) so that I got home before 8.30 in order to keep some brownie points with SWMBO and possibly negotiate another trip on sunday.

I don't think it mattered what I threw at them, but the yamashita naturals in 2.5 did the damage - One with the light brown stripes and the jet black one was the other jig.

In the half hour session I think I had 4 casts without hooking a squid, and I even forgot the net and still didn't drop one for the day. I think you only lose them when they are scarce!

An interesting side note is that when I got home I had to spend longer cleaning squid goo off the yak than the time it took to catch them all!

Now to attempt to convert one to a secret silver......