Franco
10-09-2013, 10:52 AM
Hi All,
Spontaneous trip due to stars lining up with day off and babysitter support - Had a gutfull of work and continuous toddler-related illness of late! :P
Decided to wet my little boat "Out for a Quickie!"
Mate down the road was free so off to fish we go Hi Ho!
Summary of our Morning:
- Main course was a thick, 3-days of Northerly, brown-pus soup, highlighted with crescents of snot-weed served on a bed of clear green, crisp incoming tide, though not quite enough enough to spoil the Soup-de Jour flavour
- Topped with a continuous day of NW / NE aromas just to thicken the soup a little more
- Flavours infused with a hint of bait, though not enough to overpower the senses or create a feeding frenzy
- Around 10 flatties caught, 3 good fish above 55cm biggest only 67 though
- No jew to speak of (tried for about 1.5 hrs and that's when the best flatty came along)
- A heavy serving of chocolat' drizzled over a wafer-thin base of good water led to my mate dropping the fish of the day in 1 ft of water after spitting the hooks despite eating a blade with those needle sharp spiky trebles. :-[ The weight of this fish indicated it was a Pig - but ALAS we never got to taste the crackling!
All in all a great morning out with a bit of a feed at least. Flathead Fondu tonight for dinner!
Damn the water was rubbish mostly! I see from other reports it has probably deteriorated further since the w/e. At least the bigger fish are starting to show. Our best fish which was never landed came from a spot you'd never think of fishing but seems to hold a few big girls consistently for me when the Chocolat' Soup is on the water-quality menu on a run-out tide. Shame we never saw her full size - saw the shadow as it took the lure in a ft of water but didn't get the joy afterwards.
How on earth they throw those hooks still gets me to this day. You try sticking a blade with those tiny spiky owner after-market trebles hanging off them in your gob, chew on it, run off with the line for 10 metres, then spit it out. Love to see how you go! ::)
Anyway I've had my fix now, back to the grindstone! :-?
Spontaneous trip due to stars lining up with day off and babysitter support - Had a gutfull of work and continuous toddler-related illness of late! :P
Decided to wet my little boat "Out for a Quickie!"
Mate down the road was free so off to fish we go Hi Ho!
Summary of our Morning:
- Main course was a thick, 3-days of Northerly, brown-pus soup, highlighted with crescents of snot-weed served on a bed of clear green, crisp incoming tide, though not quite enough enough to spoil the Soup-de Jour flavour
- Topped with a continuous day of NW / NE aromas just to thicken the soup a little more
- Flavours infused with a hint of bait, though not enough to overpower the senses or create a feeding frenzy
- Around 10 flatties caught, 3 good fish above 55cm biggest only 67 though
- No jew to speak of (tried for about 1.5 hrs and that's when the best flatty came along)
- A heavy serving of chocolat' drizzled over a wafer-thin base of good water led to my mate dropping the fish of the day in 1 ft of water after spitting the hooks despite eating a blade with those needle sharp spiky trebles. :-[ The weight of this fish indicated it was a Pig - but ALAS we never got to taste the crackling!
All in all a great morning out with a bit of a feed at least. Flathead Fondu tonight for dinner!
Damn the water was rubbish mostly! I see from other reports it has probably deteriorated further since the w/e. At least the bigger fish are starting to show. Our best fish which was never landed came from a spot you'd never think of fishing but seems to hold a few big girls consistently for me when the Chocolat' Soup is on the water-quality menu on a run-out tide. Shame we never saw her full size - saw the shadow as it took the lure in a ft of water but didn't get the joy afterwards.
How on earth they throw those hooks still gets me to this day. You try sticking a blade with those tiny spiky owner after-market trebles hanging off them in your gob, chew on it, run off with the line for 10 metres, then spit it out. Love to see how you go! ::)
Anyway I've had my fix now, back to the grindstone! :-?