Peel Thursday 19th

[BilgeBoy]

Hi All

Headed over to Peel early morning to land that keeper for the holidays. Well I got the biggest grinner I have ever caught and not much more. Heaps of small Squire & Grassies though, so I was kept busy with catch and release and on my light gear this is great fishing anyway.

Hit the Raby Bay Ramp at 5.00am and headed over to the target area for Piccadilly dawn. On my last 2 outings I covered a lot of country and didn't stay in the one spot too often...So today I decided to work just one area and that area was the Inner Beacon on the Western side of Peel.

When I arrived, the squire were on the chew big time. In fact I must have landed a small fish every 5 minutes or so. The drift was South/South East and I found that there were better fish out wider. Anyway, No keeper.

Plastics was the weapon of choice....Slowly loosing faith in this and will soon be Back with Webby and his "fresh is best" followers. I do believe that a WA Pillie on a 2 gang would have landed a keeper today....but anyway...plastics it was. As you do when fishing plastics, I mixed it up a bit...Worm, Shaky Shad in 4" & 3", different colour etc. Again stacks of hits but no keepers.

I did get one solid run that I lost on the way up. My guess is it spat the hook due to my no Barb policy.

Techinique...for T1 who is a placcie man. I tried casting into the drift, lifting from 4-2 o'clock periodically 80/20 & 60/40. This produced little results at varying depth. What I found worked the best...was dropping over the other side...allowing the 1/8 jig head to drop to the bottom...and then just ever so slightly lifting the rod. This way the Jig head just bumped along the bottom on the drift. I got stacks of hits this way....it must have looked like a little bait fish feeding on the bottom.

Around 10.00am there was some activity with bait fish on the surface, so I changed over to my popper and flicked into the activity....Nothing. I even tried trolling my popper up along the spit at high tide...Nothing.

Brilliant day out, Glassed out all morning. Back to the ramp @ 11.00 am

BilgeBoy

[Marlin_Mike]

You BARSTARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Going fishing while i have to work I am insanely jealous of you mid week fishers.............LOL...half ya luck mate, no feed but hell beats doing what i was doing.....


Mike

[finga]

Yeah ya bugger you should be home finishing the cleaning of the shed
Has she still got her cherry.....the donger that is??

[mickstar001]

Bad luck bilgeboy, would have thought with the tides and new moon you would have been on a winner. Off to Wello/Peel in the morning so hopefully the bigger ones miraculously turn up!

Mickstar

[Marlin_Mike]

Not you to mickstar!!!!!!!!!!!!! jesus i hate that, i have to work hard and you blokes get out..bummer, bring on the weekend

Mike

[mickstar001]

Will hopefully write you a post Marlin Mike this time tomorrow. He He.

Mickstar

[Marlin_Mike]

Ill get you all back satdy night with a post that'll rattle ya piles, me and Mark-P satdy on the bay.......................look out fishies

[T1]

Ok BILGEBOY! You're making it very difficult for me and you've set the challenge! I am offering you the chance to hook up to a keeper or 3! We will get together over the next few weeks and see if I can get you a/some fish on SP's... PM your details.

Please note that in winter, i fish baits as much as SP's but mainly at night anchoring and burleying so I am not against bait whatsoever - it's just both have their place in my opinion and SP fishing is serious fun when you get into it!

Let's see what i can do... Remember though, some days they're just not there for the taking!

Take Care T

[finga]

I reckon all the midweek maulers should get together and have a day out just to peeve Marlin Mike well and proper

[BilgeBoy]

Hey Mike...I have been on 2 weeks holidays mate. I will be back to the grind myself next week . I look forward to reading your post...at least that way I will know that big stuff does get landed.

Finga...That awesome donger still has it's cherry.

Mickstar Good luck out there mate. I know it has been producing lately so pack some BAIT!!!!

T1 Yep that sounds like a plan!! I think I need to observe some one in action!!!

BilgeBoy

[ThePinkPanther]

Magic day wasn't it?
I tried for crabs on the western side of the Naval Reserve Banks and also whiting - not a thing!
Reckon the water was too clear!
Bagged a mongrel spotty mac and then a nice 750 gr bream under my pontoon at Raby Bay - think I should have fished there all day and saved the fuel!
But wow, wasn't the water like glass?
Ducked into Horseshoe Bay for a swim and lunch and a top day in spite of no fish!

[Marlin_Mike]

I reckon all the midweek maulers should get together and have a day out just to peeve Marlin Mike well and proper

Yeah right thanks finga...............

Mike

[PinHead]

Hey Mike...I have been on 2 weeks holidays mate. I will be back to the grind myself next week . I look forward to reading your post...at least that way I will know that big stuff does get landed.

Finga...That awesome donger still has it's cherry.

Mickstar Good luck out there mate. I know it has been producing lately so pack some BAIT!!!!

T1 Yep that sounds like a plan!! I think I need to observe some one in action!!!

BilgeBoy

How the hell do you get holidays ???

[BAR UP]

Let "John Howard" get another term & none of us will have holidays.

[PinHead]

Let "John Howard" get another term & none of us will have holidays.

a bit too political for my likings thanks.