richieboy
19-03-2008, 05:07 PM
Hey boys. Well run off is almost upon us and that means the big fish are on soon.
Decided to drift the flats this morning in the Harbour coming off the neaps and search for a few mundi's.
With less run water clarity was perfect and I soon found em cruising on there sides in about a foot of water. Kept my distance firing off 30m casts on the spin stick. Used small Bozos and dropped the leader right back to 16lb.
Despite the abundance of bait no boofs were heard but I could see a heap of fish just cruising.
First cast pulled hooks but the next few got results with a few feisty Rat Salties boated. Decided to ditch the smaller specimens and search for the bigger boys amongst em. Saw a bigger brute a little deeper and proceeded to cast.
Damn it's good to see em all lit up yellow tails and all turn and hunt your lure down followed my frothing BOOFS!! That's exactly what happened and I boated a lean mean 70cm saltie, complete with arial displays and all in a foot of water! :D
More casts before the water dirtied up saw more jump offs and pulled hooks before I decided to hit the drains switching up to HB's.
Similar story there with a hook up/strike at every drain and eddy. They were on today folks. Lost one lure due to frayed leader earlier and jumped even more off. Sesh lasted 3hrs and all up had about 30 hookups with maybe 6 fish boated, 2 kept for a feed. Good Friday soon. ;)
Top sesh was on the flats picking out fish to cast to, I had goose bumps all over. Hopefully I get a few more tomorrow. Pics included as well as some of the floodplains which I'll be hitting in the run off.
Happy Easter boys and stay safe.
Richie
PS: Lures were Classic just unders in the drains and bozo'z on the flats. 16lb and 30lb leader fished on a Sol 3000 and a Zillion baitcaster. Bear s10 and Loomis GL2 made up the numbers...........for interest sake if you're heading up here.
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Decided to drift the flats this morning in the Harbour coming off the neaps and search for a few mundi's.
With less run water clarity was perfect and I soon found em cruising on there sides in about a foot of water. Kept my distance firing off 30m casts on the spin stick. Used small Bozos and dropped the leader right back to 16lb.
Despite the abundance of bait no boofs were heard but I could see a heap of fish just cruising.
First cast pulled hooks but the next few got results with a few feisty Rat Salties boated. Decided to ditch the smaller specimens and search for the bigger boys amongst em. Saw a bigger brute a little deeper and proceeded to cast.
Damn it's good to see em all lit up yellow tails and all turn and hunt your lure down followed my frothing BOOFS!! That's exactly what happened and I boated a lean mean 70cm saltie, complete with arial displays and all in a foot of water! :D
More casts before the water dirtied up saw more jump offs and pulled hooks before I decided to hit the drains switching up to HB's.
Similar story there with a hook up/strike at every drain and eddy. They were on today folks. Lost one lure due to frayed leader earlier and jumped even more off. Sesh lasted 3hrs and all up had about 30 hookups with maybe 6 fish boated, 2 kept for a feed. Good Friday soon. ;)
Top sesh was on the flats picking out fish to cast to, I had goose bumps all over. Hopefully I get a few more tomorrow. Pics included as well as some of the floodplains which I'll be hitting in the run off.
Happy Easter boys and stay safe.
Richie
PS: Lures were Classic just unders in the drains and bozo'z on the flats. 16lb and 30lb leader fished on a Sol 3000 and a Zillion baitcaster. Bear s10 and Loomis GL2 made up the numbers...........for interest sake if you're heading up here.
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