swano
12-01-2008, 11:51 AM
Managed to sneek away for a few days with Toddy back to awoonga ready to hit the weed dwellers before the wind and rain kicked in .
It was a stinker on monday on arrival bout 34deg and the water temp a balmy 30-31 so we headed to a few of the spots that produced during the ABT for me , it was mid arvo before we found active fish and the first hookup resulted in a decent fish over a meter drilling itself into the weeds and dislodging the berkly mullet in the process (doh).
with stuff all happening we headed up the southern arm and i opened the account with a 85cm speedster to which Toddy scored a fish around the same, a few more taps with no conversions and with the wind dropping on sunset we hit the central weed flats again with 110mm slick rigs . one more fish landed each and plenty of non converted hits and spits we hit the ramp satisfied with day ones efforts of 2 each best going 106cm.
day 2 saw us up before birds fart and on the water first light after the short drive from the awoonga gateway cabinsbloody comfy and cool) we couldn't entice one to the boat so we headed back for a feed and kip round 9.30am .
back in the drink round 4pm for the evening sesh we were greeted by a stiff se breeze round 15kts so we had a few long drifts over the middle weeds for nothing . back up the southern arm it was blowing just as bad so for a first time i threw the anchor out of the fishin chippy and we planned to cast a section to death then move a hundred yds and repeat , well this proved to be a winner as events unfolded a little like this .
# first cast thought i had a tap.
# second cast hook and land 78cm
# fourth cast hook and land 89cm
#seventh cast hook and land 91cm
# Toddy puts on same lure after seeing this and having no result
# hook and land another 90cm after swapping ends of the boat
# hook and land what turned out fish of the trip a 115cm(1cm short of pb).
wholly crap what a hot 60 mins of arm pumping adrenalin gushing action and as if a switch was hit ,that was it 5 fish to the boat and numerous hits and spits and then nothing for two hours so we called it.
next day we were ready to hit the same area with sharpened hooks new stingers attached to more lures and keen attitudes to boot........................ but the wind was more southerly and showers every 15mins saw the water down to 25.5 deg and we only managed 1 bust/cut off each and bugger all hits ohh and i got two catties .
with the wind stronger and steady rain falling we hooked it back to brissy to dry out (in more ways than 1);D
end report
cheers swano
It was a stinker on monday on arrival bout 34deg and the water temp a balmy 30-31 so we headed to a few of the spots that produced during the ABT for me , it was mid arvo before we found active fish and the first hookup resulted in a decent fish over a meter drilling itself into the weeds and dislodging the berkly mullet in the process (doh).
with stuff all happening we headed up the southern arm and i opened the account with a 85cm speedster to which Toddy scored a fish around the same, a few more taps with no conversions and with the wind dropping on sunset we hit the central weed flats again with 110mm slick rigs . one more fish landed each and plenty of non converted hits and spits we hit the ramp satisfied with day ones efforts of 2 each best going 106cm.
day 2 saw us up before birds fart and on the water first light after the short drive from the awoonga gateway cabinsbloody comfy and cool) we couldn't entice one to the boat so we headed back for a feed and kip round 9.30am .
back in the drink round 4pm for the evening sesh we were greeted by a stiff se breeze round 15kts so we had a few long drifts over the middle weeds for nothing . back up the southern arm it was blowing just as bad so for a first time i threw the anchor out of the fishin chippy and we planned to cast a section to death then move a hundred yds and repeat , well this proved to be a winner as events unfolded a little like this .
# first cast thought i had a tap.
# second cast hook and land 78cm
# fourth cast hook and land 89cm
#seventh cast hook and land 91cm
# Toddy puts on same lure after seeing this and having no result
# hook and land another 90cm after swapping ends of the boat
# hook and land what turned out fish of the trip a 115cm(1cm short of pb).
wholly crap what a hot 60 mins of arm pumping adrenalin gushing action and as if a switch was hit ,that was it 5 fish to the boat and numerous hits and spits and then nothing for two hours so we called it.
next day we were ready to hit the same area with sharpened hooks new stingers attached to more lures and keen attitudes to boot........................ but the wind was more southerly and showers every 15mins saw the water down to 25.5 deg and we only managed 1 bust/cut off each and bugger all hits ohh and i got two catties .
with the wind stronger and steady rain falling we hooked it back to brissy to dry out (in more ways than 1);D
end report
cheers swano