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Trip Reports Woody Head, Clarence coast Woody Head | Woody Head | | Print | |
| Written by Josh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Monday, 03 August 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dusk & Dawn  I meant business this weekend... Although I had trouble making up my mind on where and how to go about kayak fishing for the weekend, sunny-sky calm weather helped make a decision for me. With conditions so suitable at least one off shore trip was on the cards. Brisbane based yak fishoes Terry and Sam were visiting the area for the weekend so I offered to show them around at Woody Head. So we met up at the camping grounds before dawn and were sliding our yaks into the water before sunlight broke the horizon. I've been catching snapper in these parts during the middle of the day, so I figured we'd do well by launching nice and early. For the most part, however, the fish were notable in their absence. Very few fish were appearing on the sounder, even less surface activity could be detected and for the next few hours, only a good few bites were had. Sam had at least one solid bite but lost the fish. I had a couple of good bites - one that spat the hook, another than bent the hook (both fish escaped). We all caught a few pike... unfortunately.  Sam & Terry weren't mucking about either We were all feeling a little deflated upon return. When one puts in so much effort - and a 5AM start is a lot of effort - one expects rewards. But apart from spending a fantastic sunrise in the best possible place to watch it from, paddling on calm seas on a brisk sunny morning surrounded by turtles and dolphins, rewards weren't big today. That's OK I told myself... there's always tomorrow. Last I heard Terry and Sam were planning to join me for the Sunday session, but while visiting the area they were well and truly on a fish-catching mission, and were very probably distracted chasing jewfish in the river somewhere. They'd spent that morning fishing the Clarence for bass, coming up only with bream. So it turned out to be a solo session for me out in Shark Bay, which turned out to be a very similar effort to the day before, both in terms of how I approached it and the end result. Once again I trolled out into Shark bay, then swung back around over to the headlands where I zig-zagged for a while. A few pike showed up but otherwise it was generally pretty quiet.  Sun rises over Woody Head I did get a good hit from a cracker of a fish, however, most certainly a snapper and probably would have been my personal best had I landed it. In only 6 metres of water it managed to find some reef, or otherwise had swallowed the Predatek Hyper Viper lure whole and bit it off. Whatever the cause, I lost the fish and the lure - the very same one that had caught snapper both weekends prior to this. This fish was supposed to be dinner, so now with dusk looming, empty cupboards at home and supermarket closing within an hour I had to make a decision. Stay and try to catch dinner and possibly go without, or otherwise take the safe route and go get some groceries. Somewhat reluctantly I head back in.
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