Bad_Bazza
21-11-2008, 11:34 AM
13/11
This was my first trip to Somerset in a while so it meant searching out fish. There are two other factors which affected my results for the day 1/ I had no electric motor (under repair) and 2/ It blew 20 knots all day.
I found fish suspending in Bay of Plenty and managed 1 fish of 42 cm and pulled out of two others slow rolling Evergreen Little Max blades through them. The boat was travelling to quickly even with the drift sock out so decided to go search again.
Did not find much that was fishable for me in Beam Creek or around Red Rock.
I did find fish though that I could have fished if I had the electric.
Finally located a good school of fish on the north side of Pelican Point and managed a land a couple of very nice fish out of them. I pulled out of another couple of fish and got busted by two more, one of those made the reel sing like I haven't heard in a long, long time.
I had plenty of hits but the boat was drifting way to fast and the fish were just not sticking. At some stages I was just "dragging" the lure and the boat speed was doing the rest.
Even though not a lot of fish caught the signs were excellent and I haven't seen fish showing on the sounder like this for well over 18 months. Still no electric though!
18/11 Well from last Thursday there was only one place to start the day and that was at the top of Pelican Point and at least today the wind was down to about 15 knots. The fish were there but a bit slow to start and smaller catching only 6 fish here. Decided to go search further as I could always come back to here later.
There were scattered fish on the Paddock.
It wasn't until I pushed up into Bay 13 that I found another good school in out 25 ft of water and again had trouble getting them to bite until I hooked one on a plastic. That seemed to be a trigger as they cut loose from there on and ended up with 20 + fish over the next two and half hours, mostly small but heaps of fun and I managed to get busted again when a good fish found a stump. There were plenty of hits in between fish as well.
Moved back down to north side of Pelican Point for the last hour and picked up another 10 fish, again smallish but fun.
I was on my way back up there today but with the flooding I will leave it until Monday.
If anyone fishes it over the weekend I would appreciate a report especially if it's turned bad again.
Bad Bazza
This was my first trip to Somerset in a while so it meant searching out fish. There are two other factors which affected my results for the day 1/ I had no electric motor (under repair) and 2/ It blew 20 knots all day.
I found fish suspending in Bay of Plenty and managed 1 fish of 42 cm and pulled out of two others slow rolling Evergreen Little Max blades through them. The boat was travelling to quickly even with the drift sock out so decided to go search again.
Did not find much that was fishable for me in Beam Creek or around Red Rock.
I did find fish though that I could have fished if I had the electric.
Finally located a good school of fish on the north side of Pelican Point and managed a land a couple of very nice fish out of them. I pulled out of another couple of fish and got busted by two more, one of those made the reel sing like I haven't heard in a long, long time.
I had plenty of hits but the boat was drifting way to fast and the fish were just not sticking. At some stages I was just "dragging" the lure and the boat speed was doing the rest.
Even though not a lot of fish caught the signs were excellent and I haven't seen fish showing on the sounder like this for well over 18 months. Still no electric though!
18/11 Well from last Thursday there was only one place to start the day and that was at the top of Pelican Point and at least today the wind was down to about 15 knots. The fish were there but a bit slow to start and smaller catching only 6 fish here. Decided to go search further as I could always come back to here later.
There were scattered fish on the Paddock.
It wasn't until I pushed up into Bay 13 that I found another good school in out 25 ft of water and again had trouble getting them to bite until I hooked one on a plastic. That seemed to be a trigger as they cut loose from there on and ended up with 20 + fish over the next two and half hours, mostly small but heaps of fun and I managed to get busted again when a good fish found a stump. There were plenty of hits in between fish as well.
Moved back down to north side of Pelican Point for the last hour and picked up another 10 fish, again smallish but fun.
I was on my way back up there today but with the flooding I will leave it until Monday.
If anyone fishes it over the weekend I would appreciate a report especially if it's turned bad again.
Bad Bazza