Monduran Fishing

[BR65]

Sliped up for some casting practice last week, and was it HOT! Initial water temps at the ramp were 34+, and never dropped below 32 for the first couple of days.
Managed to find a few fish, and blew a lot more due to light hooks (Phoney Breams), dropped lures (weedless rigged frogies), pantsed placcies (to slow on the strike) and chewed leaders twice (never ever evere EVER use 60 leader again!)

Noel slipped up for a bit of a dangle with young Braiden, and we made sure the fluids were kept up as we did our best to put the litle tacker onto a fish in the hot weather.
Much to our delight, he smacked a new PB at 101, his first metery, and all by himself on a 6"bone hollow that he and I painted tiger stripes on with spike it dip to create some contrast, slow rolled along a protruding deep weed bank.

Best fish landed came off a moded Richos, others including missed and dropped fish were on hollows and frogies. Definate more bite action on Friday following a small weather change. Catties are fiercesome at some spots, but if you mow thru them the barra are there ( 2 mile 105 came after half a dozen caties in the one spot).

Great to fish mid week, quiet camp ground and dam, but the crowds were building for a big long week end. Dirt ramp is useable - just, but they were pumping again, with a noticeable drop in levels over night.

Johnno, 98, 99 and 105 mate.
cheers
brian

[NAGG]

Sounds like you've been doing some experimentation Brian .... Good to hear that you managed some fish too. Well done!

As for those phoney bream - add the belly stinger ( It certainly makes the lure more effective.
Light (<0.8mm) leaders ..... Its Russian roulette - the initial advantage gained is then eroded by the inability to withstand prolonged abrading/pressure...... specially at big barra impoundments when using plastics.


Chris

[Peter4]

Nice Brian, very nice.

All solid fish. You're going to be hard to catch in the MC (especially by me!)...

Regs

Pete (& Kyle)

[BR65]

Yup, experimentation is the word mate, new gear and new spots, for me any ways, nothing earth shattering for the gurus Im sure!
Light leaders, no more, the chew offs were savage and in the initial 15 seconds on very big fish.
Pete, Im racking up trips while I can mate, work beckons in March, so that will slow me down.

[NAGG]

Yup, experimentation is the word mate, new gear and new spots, for me any ways, nothing earth shattering for the gurus Im sure!
Light leaders, no more, the chew offs were savage and in the initial 15 seconds on very big fish.
Pete, Im racking up trips while I can mate, work beckons in March, so that will slow me down.

The 15secs - was that on a fish that stood & delivered ( no run - just head shakes) ........ I've lost a few fish that have worn through 80lb in the 10-15 sec time frame & all have just raised their head out of the water & violently shook their head. ...... Maybe the technique should be immediately back the drag off & reapply pressure as soon as the fish starts to move .

Chris

[BR65]

The 15secs - was that on a fish that stood & delivered ( no run - just head shakes) ........ I've lost a few fish that have worn through 80lb in the 10-15 sec time frame & all have just raised their head out of the water & violently shook their head. ...... Maybe the technique should be immediately back the drag off & reapply pressure as soon as the fish starts to move .

Chris

Mate, leader fails were one fish hooked in tiger country that I tried to put the hand brake on and lead out (free spooling would have just been messy in there), and the other came off a botched cast of 5 meters, and smashed the plac as soon as I burnt it off the bottom after clearing the birds nest, took me by suprise, surged and gone. Both leaders were chewed off, not poped at the perfection loop.
Funny, the 105 came out of a tight corner, I fished that with 50 main and 80 leader and screwed down drag because I had zero room to move, it was mouth hooked on the trebles and no leader issues.
Those big fish that stand and shake, bucket mouth open and gills flared, I TRY to knock them over sideways quick smart with changed rod angle, but thats a big try, sometimes big fish dictate terms no matter what you do.
Hot water equals very cranky and mobile fish I reckon.

[DEANO68]

nice one brian, some good fishies there,,,....see you in a couple o weeks...

[Steve B]

Nice work there Brian!!

Still some good fish..apparently its been slow too??

Good to see a couple of experiments paying off..and a couple not It happens hey!

I spoke with Navi last night, he and the boys are struggling.

Cheers Steve

[warrior]

nice stuff brian definatly got the MC in your lap at the moment ,fellas do you think free spooling the fish in those initial stages of head shakes would help stop those worn leades early in the fight ,it might take a bit of skin of the thumb but might also keep the fish down a bit in the colom or is it way too risky

[Tropicaltrout]

Rakey you sneak good on ya mate well done mate, good to see ya in a couple of weeks mate and sounds you got the edge on the spots too...

Nath

[Obi _ Wan]

Brian/Teflon, you have done it again, well done mate.

Now i'll have to add your score to the Mondy Cup score sheet, you will have a good lead.

See you up there on the 6th??



Cheers,

John.

[Whitto]

You Sneaky bugger Rakey.....anyone would think you were on leave.......Apart from all that Well Done......Just out of interest for those of us who have not been within a Bull roar of Monduran "When do ya go back to work"......Happy Days Brother

[Obi _ Wan]

OK Brian your score has been added to the progressive score list.

Cheers,

John.

[BR65]

See ya all on the 6th up there, if not sooner lol.

5 weeks of leave to go, I had/still have a bit of barra fishing left in me yet!

Now, wheres my swag.................lol.

[Steve B]

[quote=warrior;1122514]nice stuff brian definatly got the MC in your lap at the moment ,fellas do you think free spooling the fish in those initial stages of head shakes would help stop those worn leades early in the fight ,it might take a bit of skin of the thumb but might also keep the fish down a bit in the colom or is it way too risky [/quote

Al, I would think It would be too hard to do in the timeframe that it all happens....another thing is, if you did manage to knock it into freespool and the fish does its usual massive head thrashing and carry on...no amount of thumb pressure would stop a massive birdsnest....if freespooling soley on a jump and thrash....even bigger birdsnest I reckon....that would be a dangerous cluster f%$k to sort out with a fish on

With a HB face hookup, I try to dump the rod tip forward as the fish thrashes to avoid violent rips from non stretching braid pulling hooks if that makes sense...I figured if the trebbles were hooked well enough, they couldnt shake it. With SP I try to stay totally conected all the time with pressure. Thats just me...and I am probably doing it wrong in some eyes. Each to their own ways of doing things....its hard to change habits.

Cheers Steve