Hey Fishraiders, just wanted to share an early morning beach fishing session.
My dad and I have always wanted to go beach fishing as we live opposite the beach in newcastle but have never had a proper chance, but this morning we decided to wake up early and head down. We went down around 6 in the morning. We were using at 12 foot shimano combo beach rod and a a 10 foot beach rod and reel from my grandparents house. We were using a simple beach sinker with a swivel with 40cm of trace to ganged pillies.
Anyway, we went down on dixon beach and found a nice gutter going along the beach. We put the pillies in the water and soon we had a nice small tailor on the sand. We were using a slow wind with pauses retrieval for this fish. It was about 20cm. The second fish my dad caught. It was a small 23cm tailor. He just left his rod in the rod holder and let the fish hook itself. The 3rd fish was a beautiful 35cm winter bream. Being my first legal fish off the beach I was pretty pumped. We decided to brain spike it and bleed it for dinner. The last fish was also another small tailor.
For my first ever beach fishing trip i was amazed how simply and fun it was to catch a feed of fish off the beach! I hope this report has helped some people who aren't quite sure how to get into beach fishing. Thank you.👍