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Look for the big incoming tides early morning in Winter. High about 7-8 am.
Fish the mouth of the hot water outlet from first light till about 7-7.30am.
I assume you can still access the bank there from that little track off the power station turn off, if boating beach your boat on the upstream side of the outlet and fish from there.
Two ways to get em.
Skipping poppers not the cup faced bloopers, skipping poppers. The brand i used to use were smilin jacks, about 8 bucks each from K-Mart Kin Kora. Any flat faced skipping popper will work. Cast out 3/4 of the way across the channel and retrieve flat out. You need to keep you rod tip high and wind like hell, i used to use a Penn 850 with 25lb mono but anything similar will be cool. You have to keep the popper skipping across the surface not diving under water, try it a few times and you'll get the hang of it.
A couple of pointers. Keep at it. It works, the first smashing strike and 100m blistering run will leave you shaking at the knees. Now i lost my first couple of fish there cause as you may be aware the current runs out here all the time regardless of tide cause of the runout from the power station. The fish will take advantage of this and run your line out into the channel, then you are stuffed cause you'll be trying to fight them around the corner, won't work. As soon as you hook up start walking up towards the outflow from the power station, even if the fish is taking line keep walking backwards up there, reason being the fish will only run so far and if their arc brings them into the beach near the mouth then they'll turn around and fight fair out in the centre of the channel and the problem of them running around the corner is solved. Wow that's a heap of info so far and more to go.
The second way is nowhere near as effective yet my PB was caught this way. Get some live mullet or Herring with the cast net around the foam at the HWO and throw them out with a light sinker, boring, but my 15.5kg fish ate a Mullet about 3" long so it works too. By the way that was towards the end of March so maybe have a try a bit earlier than Winter.
Remember, let the fish run till it stops, constant pressure from then, and he'll have one or two more good runs yet, be patient. Oh the funny thing about hooking them on poppers, they have no idea what the f*** has happened and they'll sit on the surface stick their head down and tail out of the water and bash the surface with their tail, it's hilarious. After that little display they'll take off at a million miles an hour.
Sigh, if you need any more info let me know and after my typing fingers have healed i'll reply.
I forgot to mention, if youv'e had a heap of rain just prior to those tides forget it, they only like the clean water, oh and i've hooked some unstoppablea their too, prob BIG GT's cause i didn't have a chance yet managed to land Queenies to 15.5kg so how big were the Trev's??
cheers Matt,i think the walking track is still there,but i'm not positive,i have a 6'6 Okuma Solid Tip rod,do you think this would be able to handle the big Queenies?
Any rod that can fish 6-10kg line will be fine, not knowing the exact rod you speak of makes it a little difficult but length is fine, i think the most important part of the outfit is the reel, it has to be pretty quick, hold 200m plus of 20lb plus line and have a smooth drag and you'll be fine.
I used a leader of about 70cm, about 60lb is fine, just something to protect the main line from rubbing on the tail etc.
You used to be able to drive down that track too, heading out of town take the left hand turnoff to the power station, and on the right is a track leading down to the outlet, they put some BBQ's in there in 2001 so i'm sure you can still access the area. Some of the best tides will be mid week, so depending on work commitments you might be able to hit them before work, i used to do that and be at work at 8am, good thing bout Gladdie is not too far to get anywhere.
Once i can work out how i'll stick some photo's of the Queenies up.
Matt
Last edited by fivefishes; 04-03-2008 at 07:04 PM.
now i remember the track,yeh it is still there,haven't been there for awhile,haven't got a new reel yet because mine broke the other day,all i have at the moment is a bloody alvey with 6kg line, not sure if it would work,but i'm looking for a new reel,just a cheap one i'm looking for,but i will remember the line i will need and keep that in mind when i buy it.Nice fish,did they take awhile to reel in?
Leave the Alvey at home, there's plenty of suitable spinning reels out there that don't cost a million bucks.
The two in the photo were 8-9kg each and they used to take about 10-15min from memory.
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