Wello 3/6 Soft Plastics

[SURLY]

Just a quick report on yesterday mornings session of wellington point. After receiving heaps of advice from fellow ausfishes headed out to the right of the leads around 5.30 am. First time fishing a 'work day' for some time and there was only 2 other boats out there although they were towards Huybers. We had the whole area to ourselves. We fished through to 10.30 catching stacks of fish including many squire around the 33cm to 34cm mark. Although we still haven't caught a legal squire I feel we are not to far of.

Note I was using the finesse heads and my mate was using nitros in vary weights from 1/4 to 1/6. the lighter heads definitely improved the catch rate as we probably ended up with over 50 fish. I also did not have a problem with hooks straightening so thanks for the advice! Mainly used 3" berkley pumpkinseed and watermelon as well as 3" pearl Blue.

At one occassion after hooking a pike my mobile phone rang so i couldn't unhook it and left it in the water. Suddenly mr pike was joined by quite a few of his mates as well as some monster bream just below them. For the next 10 minutes we were throwing plastics at them hoping the bream would eventually take it, although Mr Pike insured that was not to be. I think the pike would have hung around if it wasn't for a lone dolphin who came to our rescue and hung around the boat.

The wind was a lot lighter than last weekend and kept us in the strike zone for a lot longer. I am back to the tackle shop today to replenish my soft plastics and jighead supply. I know the first legal squire on SP is just around the corner.

Craig

[aaron_gilmour]

Well done Craig,

I am only new to the squire and plastics thing as well and I'm sure you wont have to wait long for your first legal fish. It looks like a top season for the snapper by the fish caught allready by the members of this site ;D.

Good luck with it.

Cheers
Aaron

[ON-THE-CHEW]

Good work it won't take long to catch your first legal fish. We have found the average size fish you catch on SP's is bigger than that you would catch on dead bait. I don't know what the current is like there but I fish in the rainbow channel which has a very strong current and we use 1/4 once jig heads, so if the current isn't that strong maybe even try and go lighter <>< <>< <><

[vertico]

1/16 jigheads are geat around wello its all you need when the drift is right!

[aquarius]

Good work catching 50 fish mate......that big one is not far away now...maybe next trip ay.
What was the water clarity like around Wello?
Its been hard fishin there on calm mornings in the clear water but with some wind chop the bigger fish feel more secure.
Cheers Brent.
PS.. INCOMING TIDE PRODUCES BETTER FISH FOR US AROUND WELLO.

[SURLY]

Thanks Guys, I did buy myself some 1/16 so will see how they go. I also bought some 4" berkleys so will try them as well.

Brent, The water clarity was average, i have seen it a lot clearer out there and it was a going out tide. How far out from the main reef do you go to? i have seen many a boat drift a lot further out than we have been doing. As far as I was aware there is no real structure once you get into the 22 - 25 feet range as that is the area we always use to target sand crabs. I have always assumed the boats that drift out wider have been targeting the squid and cuttlefish.

Cheers

Craig