Peel Brickers

[sharkymark2]

Fished over at the Bluff this morning for a small feed of sweetlip and squire. Was going to fish at Potts Point but it was so calm decided to make the run over. Used pilchards with lots of prawn heads from Christmas lunch as berley. Got bricked a few times on the reef and caught a nice Chinaman fish of around 2 1/2 kilo. :(. Let it go as I have heard these fish carry a great risk of cigatuera poisoning. Tossed back alot of undersize squire and sweetlip and had a live bait head and tail bitten off. With the hook neatly in the remaining part. >:(. Lots of gar around. Came back about 9am with only a ruffle on the water. Can't wait till the cooler weather. :). Any secrets for using soft plastics on the reef during daylight hours. We were fishing in about 4.5 metres of water and fished the top and run out, but found the run out was very slow.

[aquarius]

Mate you should have thrown the cast net over a few Gar......Excelent fresh bait for snapper.
To work the plastics you need "RUN" in the tide.
This weekends tide should be good for plastics.
Cheers Brent :)

[sharkymark2]

Thanks Brent I kept saying that to my mate who had forgotten the cast net ::). I did remark that for a reasonable high tide that it was a slow run out. But then it was easier to use no weight and lighter lines. He rang me back to tell me that after he had cleaned the fish they were full of cooked prawn bits ;D ........so must have been discerning fish ;). PS I also found a piece of lemon in the shells; that went in as well but no tartae sauce >:(. Why the run for using SP's?
Mark.

[aquarius]

Snapper like tidal run because the bait schools are on the move and fish come to them. (my theory) the whole system comes alive!!!
A soft plastic drifting along naturaly in the tide will always get hammered rather than one just bouncing up and down in the same place.
Cheers Brent

[scuttlebutt]

Not only are those Chinaman Fish a Cigatura risk, they're a protected species as well - best not to keep them

cheers,

steve