Semi-successful first fish in the little boat

Today was our first chance to fish the creeks from our newly acquired 3.86 Sea Jay. At the recommendation of Li'lDave we gave one of the smaller Northern creeks a shot. This was not just our first fish from the boat, but also our first ever go at crabbing. We started the morning launching at about 6am and fished the falling tide. Dad was first to land a fish, a small flathead. It came within our first few casts. I had had a couple of bumps, but failed to hook up. Then I landed my fist fish, a 3in cod! Yay. Fishing was slow for the entire run out tide. We tried several different spots along the creek, eventually finding ourselves at the mouth around the bottom of the tide. There were only a few spots with enough water to hold a decent fish, so we worked these while waiting for the tide to turn. The change of tide was what was needed. And over the next couple of hours we landed several nice fish little fish on plastics. Main species were Barra, Jacks, Archer and a Bream. Best fish of the day was a 54cm Barra.

Our crabbing efforts were about as good as the fishing, all TOO SMALL. In the end we must have put back almost 100 crabs for the day. The biggest buck we could manage was about 3mm under size.