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Ryan and his children with a few of the sh we caught.
The Shark Cat that ate up the sea
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It took me a while to sort the sounder out – it had that much clutter coming though once the gain was turned up – and it didn’t help that Ryan left the book at home.
that area sounding out new and old spots.
though fish were just coming on the chew, we pulled the pin and headed in.
I must say, compared to the 585, 587, 295 and 1150s, it was a crap sounder to use, but that may have been due to where the transducer was put for this trip.
Which was a first for both of us – not having to worry about making a pay on an overnighter or finding fish for cli- ents at night.
In fact, it’s the best boat of its size I have been in, and being only 18’ that amazed me!
I played around with it for a long time and it was useless – the trans- ducer was stuffed and I could not get any power out of it.
Until next time, be safe on the water.
It got dark quickly and because both of us were exhausted, we went to bed early.
At that time, it was blowing 15-22 knots northeasterly and the little Shark Cat just ate up the sea – crossing the bar at 25 knots with no bad habits.
It was fantastic!
Next day we fished around the area a lit- tle more but the run had kicked in, so we worked our way back towards Double Island where things were su- per slow.
I love Cats.
The day went so fast that we came back close off the bar because Ry- an wanted to make sure he did his first inwards crossing as skipper in the daylight.
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We did a few drifts catching a couple of tuskfish, then we an- chored up and I put out a berley trail for Ryan’s first drop.
We anchored up, put out a berley trail and started catching yel- lowtail scad on our lines, so Ryan dropped a jig down and loaded them up.
He hooked-up to a good fish that I thought might have been a nice red emperor.
He caught a few strings using livies and I used a big half slab with the head cut in half.
He had actually land- ed a good snapper.
With a steady stream of hussar, tuskfish and undersize fish being caught, we chipped away for a nice feed.
Within no time, we were landing good grass sweetlip and snapper.
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