straddie
08-11-2005, 11:39 AM
With school holidays fast approaching I decided to make a quick dash over to straddie yesterday before I shut down my beach fishing for the summer. Average forecast, but the big swell warnings from the gold coast had me keen.
Arrived at the causeway just before high tide to find 15-18knots of southerly and not much else other than wind slop, big swell? ::) where? hmmm might be a little bit slower than I was thinking.
A scan from the dunes didn't show anything great in the way of gutters close by so grabbed a metal and started to throw that around straight out from the exit for no result. Ran into a guy and chatted with him for a while that was telling me he had been getting into GT's from the rocks and had knocked off a 14kg model the day before. Tide had turned so went back to throwing metal which brought a solid hookup, got him just to the beach break where an easy 50cm + tailor jumped out of the water and threw my lure back at me ::) . Next cast brings a chopper of just under 40cm which was going back till I gave up trying to retrieve the hooks from down his throat and gave him some surgery. Hook up 1 more good fish and another smaller one with the hooks pulling from both.
Enough beach now to drive on and I wanted to do a good recy and find a night spot to fish. Headed back toward the point finding only average gutters with the first I stopped at producing a hookup and lost fish :o . Turned and headed toward the pin, finding mostly wind blown mush till I got to 20km south of the causeway. A deep nasty gutter with a thigh deep bank had me punching out bait and metals while fighting the southerly for no result had me heading back toward the causeway.
A few K's down and there are some birds working in close so threw a metal in, which was swooped on by two terns, with one hooking up :o #%*&# grab towel from the car while the turn tries to go higher and higher, get him down and he actually behaved letting me get the hook from the hard part of his top beak with ease. Didn't bother about a second cast and headed back to the causeway.
The pick of the average gutters now had two guys fishing it so wandered a few k's further along to the second pick. Looked darty, so a pippi gets thrown out the back, bite, bang, felt like a 500 gm dart holding in the current then as it came in it felt like it dropped in size, 38cm silver surf snapper ;D aka bream ::) ah well I'm here now.
Next half dozen baits get taken without feeling anything, before finally working out what they were doing and hooking a few dart, and losing lots more. Very funny bites made harder to feel with the washy conditions and varying 10 - 20 knot cross wind that didn't seem like it was going to ease off.
Anyways total catch 1 tailor 1 bream 4 dart with lots more hooked up and lost. I had had enough so pulled the plug at 7pm and back in time for the last barge.
Arrived at the causeway just before high tide to find 15-18knots of southerly and not much else other than wind slop, big swell? ::) where? hmmm might be a little bit slower than I was thinking.
A scan from the dunes didn't show anything great in the way of gutters close by so grabbed a metal and started to throw that around straight out from the exit for no result. Ran into a guy and chatted with him for a while that was telling me he had been getting into GT's from the rocks and had knocked off a 14kg model the day before. Tide had turned so went back to throwing metal which brought a solid hookup, got him just to the beach break where an easy 50cm + tailor jumped out of the water and threw my lure back at me ::) . Next cast brings a chopper of just under 40cm which was going back till I gave up trying to retrieve the hooks from down his throat and gave him some surgery. Hook up 1 more good fish and another smaller one with the hooks pulling from both.
Enough beach now to drive on and I wanted to do a good recy and find a night spot to fish. Headed back toward the point finding only average gutters with the first I stopped at producing a hookup and lost fish :o . Turned and headed toward the pin, finding mostly wind blown mush till I got to 20km south of the causeway. A deep nasty gutter with a thigh deep bank had me punching out bait and metals while fighting the southerly for no result had me heading back toward the causeway.
A few K's down and there are some birds working in close so threw a metal in, which was swooped on by two terns, with one hooking up :o #%*&# grab towel from the car while the turn tries to go higher and higher, get him down and he actually behaved letting me get the hook from the hard part of his top beak with ease. Didn't bother about a second cast and headed back to the causeway.
The pick of the average gutters now had two guys fishing it so wandered a few k's further along to the second pick. Looked darty, so a pippi gets thrown out the back, bite, bang, felt like a 500 gm dart holding in the current then as it came in it felt like it dropped in size, 38cm silver surf snapper ;D aka bream ::) ah well I'm here now.
Next half dozen baits get taken without feeling anything, before finally working out what they were doing and hooking a few dart, and losing lots more. Very funny bites made harder to feel with the washy conditions and varying 10 - 20 knot cross wind that didn't seem like it was going to ease off.
Anyways total catch 1 tailor 1 bream 4 dart with lots more hooked up and lost. I had had enough so pulled the plug at 7pm and back in time for the last barge.