Cerberus Cephalopods

Another weekend another kayak trip. This is great! As planned, we headed to Black Rock and launched at 6.30 in Half Moon Bay. It was good to meet a fellow VicYakker (Mark, known as Rollie) and we had to wait a while to launch due to it being overcast and still dark. Lucky because this gave us time to pay the ridiculous sum of $10 for a parking ticket! We headed to the wreck Cerberus, and I flicked a 3" pearl watermelon minnow at it. No sooner had it his the water than I was on! Not a massive start, but a 20cm pinkie opened the account. For the next half hour or so we caught and released many similar size fish, with almost every cast resulting in a hit. I even managed a 38cm flathead which went into the keep net for dinner.
It went quiet so we headed out a bit and anchored up after our first drift resulted in 500m of movement within a couple of minutes - A bit breezy so too fast to drift. A couple more undersize pinkies came aboard and we headed back in to the Cerberus for one last try. After 15 fruitless minutes I swapped to a squid jig and first cast on the drop I was snagged on the ship..... As I was cursing my luck and readying myself to say goodbye to $22, the snag took off! My PB squid to date then came aboard after a spirited battle, so I quickly removed the jig from its tentacles, cast back in the same spot and went to get the squid out of the net. I didn't have time to accomplish this as while it was dropping again a good squid took the jig! Then I had my 2 biggest kayak caught squid ever in the net but was drifting close to the ship, so moved off and put them in the keep net. Then I had 10 more minutes of casting at the ship for 1 more (Slightly smaller) squid. Dad tried to get in on the action, but failed to tempt any squid. He did catch quite a few pinkies in the meantime though.


The pic is of me with the Cerberus in the background. Disappointing to find that although we had to pay $10 just to park in the carpark (Even though we didn't have a boat trailer!) there were no fish cleaning facilities provided. Apart from that, it was an enjoyable day and good to meet another fantastic VicYakker.