PLAN B - B FOR BOYS Snapper was off the radar - so the boys and I went for Plan B. Gavin Hicks.
Plan B – Salmon…
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he usual Friday arvo text messages were sent after having a look at the weather and a plan was put in place for the next morning. An early start was going to see us meet Simsy and his daughter Ebony at the Devonport boat ramp at daybreak, take both boats out and look for some snapper. The boys were pumped with this plan because neither of them are yet to catch a snapper. So keen were they in fact that we found ourselves on the water about half an hour earlier than the planned meeting time. It was a fair bit windier than we had anticipated on the drive down and on arrival at the Elimatta boat ramp looked a bit choppy further out. So we decided to chuck a couple of silver slice lures out the back and go for a quick troll, more to check on conditions than anything else. We got about halfway along towards Wrights Island in the time we had, but that was enough to decide it probably wasn’t going to be the day they got their maiden snapper. So we turned and headed
back to meet our partners in crime for the day. A quick discussion was had at the ramp and then we all piled in the TABS to go for a quick run so Jason could see what it was like. We only had to go to the mouth of the Mersey and he had seen enough. All his knowledge of the local area came to the fore and he knew straight away it wasn’t going to be a snapper day. On the run back to the ramp it was decided to load the boat back on the trailer and we would all head for Port Sorell and see if the salmon were still about in good numbers and size. With myself, Jobie and Kai in my boat and Jason and Ebony in his boat surely we could find some fish for the kids to have some fun with. Within half an hour we had both boats on the water and tied up at the Port Sorell jetty. We then headed for the river mouth with the intention of doing some trolling to hopefully find some fish reasonably quickly.
Jason was near the break wall and us the western side. Jobie started with a small no name brand blue skirt lure (I have no idea what brand) on his Terez/ Saragosa rod and reel combo, whilst Kai started out trawling a white soft plastic on his Penn/ Samaki set up. Me, I had to settle for my 7 weight Sage Xi3 sitting in its rod case on the boat shelf and hopefully if the boys got sick of it I would actually be allowed to have a fish. No sooner had we got our spread set up and in the water than we looked over and young Ebony was leaning back with her rod bent, they were into the salmon straight away. So as all good mates do I got the boys to bring their rods in and motored over to their area straight away, no use them having all the fun! By the time we got there Ebbs had shown her angling class and had a nice salmon of a couple of pounds or more subdued and in the boat. This had all the makings of turning into a real fun day for the kids.
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