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You have propellant, Fire Retardant (cant use D40 to start your 2stroke anymore), Stabilisers and so on... I wouldn't reccomend it comming from a chemical composition point of view.

I was using Silver Fox - Tail tipped Pink. No luck. Shame about the basin as I used to fish there alot. I was surprised how quickly the river bounced back from the previous highwater but Im having doubts about this 'double whammy' , I'll be giving the local land spots a bash today to see if there's been any improvment now the water current has subsided and report back this arvo.

Im really hoping for a quick clean up and settlement.... I fish just about every morning before work on my street using a bike to get to several land based spots. But im fearing this double dumping in the past month will shut it down for a long time. I've busted the boat out and tried the upper stretches - no good. Over weirs into bass - hit and miss. Out to the mouth of the river - Hopeless. Hoping the raiders can guide me a little more as im leaning towards topwater fishing (poppers & shallow divers) being useless due to low vis.

Hey all - I come posing a question and am very interested in your thoughts about fish behaviour during and immediatley after a flood event. I've googled articles done by the DPI and have only come up with irrelivant 'levi & fish-flap' studies which don't shed any light on 'un-controlled' estuarys. Case In Hand: My local creek & lake area - After this weeks rain event coupled with the one last month there has been a huge amount of water dumped into tuggerah lakes along with heavy sediment/muddy water flows. I attempted to check the creek out yesterday during the first break in the weather and it wasnt preety - The Water is up by about 1 1/2ft, running dangerously fast and boiling up. visibility & quality have gone.Its a mud-pit. No bites in any of the usual spots and even in the eddies created by the escaping water (Using bright plastics and the usual bloodworm with the tails dipped for highlights, Topwater Hardbodies & crankbaits.) During the week before the downpour I was having GREAT success with bream & Perch on poppers and very light plastics in all my usual spots both Land & Boat. Well Raiders - What are you thoughts / Experiences with fishing after a large rain and subsequent outflow in your *saltwater* fishing areas? How do the fish behave? I've heard everything from "They go with the flow and fishing is useless" to "fish generally school in and around eddies as resist the currents to stay in their current habitat" to "Fish flush out until they are clear of the fresh"

I love the sound of tight braid lines making music in the wind... great catch mate

Its the only place ive consistantly caught Ludderick on pumped nippers I love the place... and testlab is correct - Its big enough to fish yet small enough to have a *VERY* fragile ecosystem. PROTIP: Its a horrible place to fish in school/P. Holidays and gets raped and pillaged during the xmas-newyear holidays (the run-in tide *floating* rubbish on the 23rd Dec. 2012. from the caravan park at the mouth was sickening)

I am sorry. Will not happen again. The further reaches of the creek where the last substancial mangroves meet the freshwater creek - This area seems to have the most succesful hookups on the widest range of species for Patonga. (Shallows definatley dont mean less fish) Also check the sandy channel thats paralelle to 'jackaranda ave' *good for live bait pumping & drifting* Im no expert but my handfull of trips to Pat. have always been successful even on the worst of conditions

It starts with P and Rhymes with Tonga

Hey there Raiders, Me and a close friend took out the canoe last Sunday for a SP flick around one of the hawkesburys creeks. First thing that had us stumped was the lack of tide, which usually is quite strong is lasting evidence of the impact of last weeks heavy rains. Pushing on up the creek we were surprised by the clarity of the water expecting to see a total 'mud-out' we were greeted with a mild tea-tree like colour!! Things were looking up? No. the first 2 1/2 hours of the run in tide left us with a bitter taste in our mouth as the usual flathead hotspots only produced three undersized flathead amongst the swarm of SP destroying taylor. Moving further into the creek as tides allowed we decided to put the rods down and see just how far we can travel upstream whilst waiting for the tide to slow down & eventually reverse. Ending up here: And the mate spotting this oddity not far from the canoe in about ankle deep water: http://youtu.be/cNyxaGPyYjo Any guesses? After this, and noticing the reverse in tide we headed out back into the mangroves to continue our search. To my surprise the 3rd flick and subsequent snag on the 'groves and my drag was screaming and the fish not giving an inch for a minute or so. Thinking to myself oh this is a big flatty here we were gobsmacked when this came into the net: Hanging around for the next 20 minutes also produced another Thumper going roughly 40cms, as the tide dragged us back down stream over the weedbeds we managed quite a few undersized EP's with the best going 37cm to the tip. Roughly 5pm saw the SE wind bringing in showery squalls and general wet'n'cold mayhem so we decided to chalk up a win for the day & trailer up which was too easy as the total tide fluctuation was only roughly 1ft ..... Catch of the Day: Tight Lines guys!

Actually caught a few in my fishing cap - Definatley Guppies BUT some seem to have similar head/mouth caracteristics as bass - hard to tell when there under an inch. As for ol Mate - yeah he looked like he just lost the olympics.

Haha, Thanks Grant - It is a shame but recent minor flooding has given the creek a brand new lease on life: Our trip up to the weir on the 31st saw us gob smacked at the millions of guppies & (possibly juvenile bass?) launching themselves up & over the swollen weir *NO CAMERA, DOH*. ****WARNING**** Also a LARGE amount of trees & natural debris is now blocking access from the weir itself. Not to discourage anybody but PLEASE take care if you decide to enter the creek as many of the felled trees & washed up debris are dangling precariously in the air and could easily come down at a moments notice.***** Some Friends & myself will be working over the next few months to remove some of the immediate debris blocking access - Work & Weather Permitting. Tight lines guys

I cant internet for the life of me :| Sorry guys not all the links are embedding

A new guy around Fishraider appears! Just a collection of my mate & myself bass fishing around the lakes in the past month or so - Videos included. We have got on the bass with a 12.5ft outriggered canoe using both a 6hp O/B & Paddle power to get to the more secluded spots. Plenty of bass about with more good days than none- all were released as we never take any. ALL freshwater fishing was done solely on our own homemade hardbody lures "Bungie Lures" which we handcarve, string, paint & coat. O-Creek (Location readacted due to people pollouting this now SPROUTING bass fishery) 7th Jan: Low Water Levels, Plenty of folage on the surface. Using "bungie" 'Powmp' Surface poppers Whilst mate used 'Gun' Medium Diver in black on green. Many Juvenile (10-15cm models taken) and wrapped up the day with 3 of these: Taken on Bungie GUN - Made by Luke G. 8th Jan (same location 4pm): Low water levels, Similar folage on surface: Mate forgets the net (guess the size?) Using 8lb braid with 6lb fluro leader http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXcomAai2lo And Again: Landing IT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSRYl6WDG3Y Onward to the more recent adventures in the same creek: A prototype surface popper: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntHK_BQlbPE And The tried & true Bungie 'powmp': 29cm bass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXJSTogWTy4 32cm Bass: (explicit Language NSFW) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=921vHsm9730 Thank god for Fluro abrasion Resistance Hope you enjoyed - Tight lines guys

THIS.... Being a local... and not to sound racist but - have noted on more occasions than I can count on 1 hand within the past 2 weeks "ethnic" anglers working around the northern end of the bridge where the bbq's are hauling catch-bags of bream & flathead BOTH in the 20-30cm range (bream being 20 odd juvies & flatties being maybe 30 if that). S**ts me to tears and would say something but decide not to due to repeated threats of violence by multiple people amongst other things (yet again, cops never arrive intime). I've also noted the fisheries (easily identified by their UTES/VANS) simply looking or poking their heads around a corner and simply leaving. MORE FISHERIES PLEASE!!!! Where is my fishing license money going???!?!?! /end rant