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    Upper Hastings finally livens up

    in Saltwater Fishing Reports

    Posted

    22 minutes ago, big Neil said:

    Great report Dave. Well done on the Trevs, some nice ones there. How do you find the safe ways to get to these upstream areas? Any useful maps available or is it through many hours of trial and error?

    bn

    Just drove the boat upriver on low tide at slow speed looking for obstacles figuring out the best passage 

    I mark waypoints on areas like gravel barswhere I need to slow down and trim motor up in case I'm travelling in the dark

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    Upper Hastings finally livens up

    in Saltwater Fishing Reports

    Posted

    The last month we've been exploring the upper tidal reaches of the Hastings, it's a treacherous run upriver from Wauchope but we've managed to plot a safe course. With my 1 day off decided it was a day for an early solo run up there.

    There's a nasty gravel bed with a windy channel  but the plus side once I pass it I have the river to myself 

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    Had a few casts on the gravel bed with a small crank, hooked into a solid flathead which managed to throw the hook and spotted a shark cruising the shallows to start the morning.

    Moving upriver saw some splashing, then I realise it's actually a bust up, thinking tailor I cast it with hardbodies and soft plastics for not even a follow. Getting desperate I dig out my emergency box of random lures and pull out a 10 gram metal slice, first cast it's annihalated thinking tailor the fish played deep and I was surprised to see a big eye trevally come up (with a shark trailing)

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    Haven't caught one of these guys for ages, didn't waste anytime releasing the trev and casting for more. Things were a little quiet but by coincidence I miss casted and when ripping the lure in the trevs were all over it

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    Found the pattern, they wanted the lure cranking as fast as possible, they were puttting up a great scrap.

    Then a much bigger trev appears nailing the slug right beside the boat, the fish took off at speed going deep, I was worried it would get sharked but luckily after a drawn out fight of circling and solid runs a much better big eye hits the deck

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    At 45cm a new pb big eye, 

    After a few more smaller ones thet disappeared as quickly as they appeared so switched it up to casti g plastics for bream

    The bream were happy to oblige didn't take long to get one on the boat 

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    Mistly small fish but did manage one reasonable bream

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    About 9 o'clock the bite really slowed, and getting hot decided to call it a day, only a short session but fiery session hopefully a sign of more to come

    Cheers for reading

    Dave

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    Whiting on non surface lures

    in Saltwater Fishing Chat

    Posted

    Zman slim swim 2.5inch bloodworm colour (i have tried other colours but bloodworm is the most consistent), especially when they're prawn feeding

    The retrieve is a bit tricky but essentially you need to flick/twitch it along the bottom rather than hop it off the bottom like for flatties and bream

    keeping your rod tip low give it 3 or 4 fast flicks then pause, the idea is to mimic a prawn shooting across the bottom, the hits are generally not subtle

    Scent is also a must for this technique 

    It can be a bit hit and miss, whiting can be unbelievably fickle when it comes to lures

    I'm hoping this summer I'll get a chance to film this technique 

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    Educated bream

    in Fishing Chat

    Posted

    Bream are seriously cunning fish I've spent many frustrating hours trying to fool xos marina fish, the other fish I've seen demonstrate that level of frustrating intelligence are southern mangrove jacks the cooler water temps must fuel brain development because sometimes I swear i see them thinking before refusing my lure

    The danger of being silly….

    in The Bar

    Posted

    7 hours ago, noelm said:

    I was just in the garage trying to free up a seized bolt, after a while I thought “bugger it” and got the grinder out, it’s only one bolt, I will just hold it while I cut it with a thin disc in the battery grinder (what could possibly go wrong?) anyway, 10 seconds later, the grinder “grabbed” flung the bolt and terminal into orbit, and put an ever so neat slice in my thumb! So here I sit, with a paw patrol band aid (grand kids) wrapped around it wondering why I was so stupid, no safety glasses, nothing……damn

    That's the best story I've heard all day, gotta love cutting corners 

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