Bryan’s to Wineglass

Up at 7 with renewed hope to pull the pots,first one a blank,only a shark,they must be in plague proportions!
Steamed across the channel to the Island side and pulled the second one,I have never fished here before ,a better result one size cray and another shark.

Anchored in Passage beach for breakfast.Mucked about for the day and went up towards the famous bay. I did not know any spots there so set the pots around the Lemon Rock on some reasonable bottom.
Wind now NE fairly strong,went into the bay,did not count the boats but recon at least thirty there,all the quiet southern end spots taken up and the middle of the bay a bit rolly. Had a look up under the north shore out towards the point but the bottom all hard there ,would be too growley on the anchor chain.
Anchored off the beach at the north end ,not too bad,put out plenty of chain as remember the holding only ordinary here.

Bruce put the roast on and I attempted the blog ,annoyed again as not enough bars to connect and still have not worked out how to save one if not connected,programme made for city folks I presume.
Four or five more boats trickled in before dark.

There was a small motor boat anchored in the bottom end called Folly 111 I saw at the wooden boat festival ,built for river cruising in NSW,doing it tough I recon.With no weather window in sight to get across the paddock I saw him on the AIS in St Helens.I hope he has plenty of time to get home.
I would imagine not many facilities for extended cruising on board.

Just to make things more interesting the Coral Explorer arrived at about 5 am and anchored off ,along with the Coles Bay cruise later in the morning things were getting to the ridiculous stage ,fairly quiet early but later all the walkers would show up.The tourism people have done a good job of buggering it up I believe.,
Up anchored to pull the pots ,really blowing hard at the rock,go the crew as a well oiled machine now as it is not easy picking them up is a blow,the Masterpiece skippes around if the wind is gusty.Dont want a line around the prop.Pulled them ok,nothing again.The pros would be laughing,they have caught the East Cost quota and have stopped fishing.The amateurs have it to themselves but they seem have gone off.

Went up to Sleepy Bay for breakfast,beautiful in there,flat calm,laughing at the mob in Wineglass rocking and rolling.
Bruce got some bacon and eggs on and the first walkers arrived across the other side of the bay and had a skinny dip,beautiful red granite rocks there.They would remember their morning I believe.
A few more arrive and pottered around over there.
Up anchored and went Flathead fishing,got a good haul ,wind now NW.Drifted at the right speed.
Cleaned the fish and anchored for the night but before dark while having a sundowner the wind swung SE right in there so upanchored and joined the masses in Wineglass.

Planed to move up the coast in the morning,put the pots off the Nuggets.