Jacobs Well - Sunday 3 January

[Robsie]

Gday all.

Went out with a mate to Jumpinpin for an early fish sunday. Pumped some yabbies, and was fishing by 6:30am over some yabby banks. We landed a couple of nice flathead about 50cm, and a couple of nice surf bream, along with a dozen or so throw back whiting and flathead. All were caught on yabbies ( which were the biggest yabbies I have ever seen)! All fish were caught in 3 foot or less of water.

We tried drifting along the drop off on the island opposite straddie at the mouth. I have never caught anything here, yet the majority of boats were there. I thought it would be good for tailor but thats about it?

It was a very pleasant morning (until the rains came), and i was surprised at how clean the water was considering the rain.

Cheers Rob

[uglyfish]

sounds like a productive morning mate..well done

[Robsie]

Yeh ugly fish it was... If we had stayed on the sandbar instead of moving to the mouth i dare say we would have bagged a few more flatties.

I may be wrong, but i wasn't actually expecting to catch anything after all the rain. But i guess it flushes all the bait out to the mouth?

I guess the water wasn't teh colour i expected it to be after the rains so maybe the fresh leaves the system quicker with the tidal flow.