Hi everybody,
I usually fish at Kurnell but a broken alvey (aaarghhh!) kept me away today.
Rather than waste my time washing the car/paying bills etc etc I decided to head to a tiny
local reserve where a small stream runs into Geroges River on the southern side, just a bit west of Captain Cook bridge.
At low tide there are quite extensive sand flats there, often seen people digging bait/pumping nippers
and I've often thought - got to be fish there at some stage of the tide.
Abt high tide when I got there and quite a strong nor-easter. Water the colour of tea and quite warm.
Decided this was the time to chuck some SPs around.
Hardly ideal kit: 11 ft Bruce&Walker "avon style" rod - not exactly the most sensitive tip but plenty (too much!)
of power throughout the action, Shimano st 4000fa, 6 lb fluro strait through to a 100mm squidgy wriggler w/2grm
jig head.
Waded out and heaved the SP 20 meters - it was windy, honest. Did this quite a few times. Noticed some chopper tailor
swimming within arms reach and took heart from this.
Also noticed some small taps - like the SP was moving over some stones/gravel I thought, but maybe they were bites ?
On one of the retrieves there were a couple of taps and a bit of a rattle so I lifted the rod and hooked up into something
very solid. It was the classic "damn I'm snagged up" until the first head shake. I looked up at the rod and I could see that
the thing was almost in a hoop and knew that I was into a pretty decent fish.
It didn't last long. Like a fool with no hands I kept too much pressure on and, another schoolboy error, did not have
the clutch properly set. It gave a few metres of line then, bye-bye fish, hook pulled away. Gah !
What do you think, Fishraiders - Flathead ?
So, an interesting and enlightening 2 hours. I'm heading back for another session soon.