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Went out Sat morning on the Broadwater. Not much action on first light with all the current midtide, so I slipped into some canals. Plenty of surface action to cast at, but they wouldn’t take SPs or poppers.
Went back to the Broadwater closer to high tide and got a decent hit on a Gulp pumpkinseed. Thought Id got a decent jack when I saw the brown shadow, landed him in the boat and gave a whoopee. Then I see these blue lines around his eyes, and no fangs, and Ive got my first Grassy Sweetlip at 40cm. He gave me a good run on the light gear too. He was dinner Sat, but I reckon they are a bit bland.
I switched to a yellow jighead with the painted eye on it, and first cast was a big flatty on the same SP. I had to measure it 3 times but it was definitely 69.5 cm, and into the esky it went. At 2.1kg it had nearly pulled the hook and had bent it a fair bit, and the jighead was yellow no more from teethmarks.
I thought it was worth going back this morning, but dawn was mid tide, and what a big tide on the new moon. Found some trevors holding in an eddy feeding on small prawns (that might be why the fishing seems hot all round this weekend) and I got hit on a popper but he spat the hook. Dropped a 60cm lizard at the boat, and went to work before the high tide. I would have liked to be out there longer this morning, theres fish about with all this bait.
well done mate, thats a stonker of a lizard, and i havent caught a grassy in years. don;t think i found em that bland though, what condition was the water in?
Nice fish Andrew - would have made Mrs GoGecko very happy!
I only managed a few Bream and a rat Flattie on Sunday morning - hence why I gave it away and chased Prawns. I managed one of the Bream on a popper, but very little surface action and most of the action was Bream. Also noticed the water temp was down a degree or two from previous weeks. The tide really did rip on the weekend - I think the fishing would have been hot late last week when the top of the tide coincided with sunrise!
Good stuff Andrew, sounds like it was a good weekend down there bit of rain always stirs it up a bit hey . It seems the winter species are starting to show up around the traps, few squire around as well but that is a very nice size sweety for that area.
What part of the Broadwater were you fishing. I fished from the bank/jetty behind Nara resort on Friday arvo for one 37cm flattie on a 2" atomic fat grub. There was plenty of bait around the jetty & pontoon and a young fella was catching a few butter bream on bread.
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. It seems the winter species are starting to show up around the traps, few squire around as well but that is a very nice size sweety for that area.
