It has been some time since I posted previously and I'm only just getting my finger out trying to locate blackfish in the Tamar River, TAS.
The Brother in law and I (he's keen to learn) spent some time trying, at absolute low tide, to find some green weed growing in the Tamar. This will hopefully give us a bit of a guide for places to fish.
There seems to be no shortage of green weed about. This pier was just off the Beauty Point boat ramp:
On the opposite shore to Beauty Point we spied a very green line of rocks and checked it out. There was a stretch of about 150m of very weedy rocks just North of the woodchip mill wharfs. The tide was really ripping through on the in run. Maybe closer to the top of the tide when the rocks are covered it'll be worth a good go.
Still, I'm trying to find some places on the Western shore for land-based blackfishing.
Also, I found a photo of my dad blackfishing on Lake Illawarra, my older brother and myself- sometime in the late 70's. He taught me and his dad taught him. Now I have a son, I want to do my bit to keep the skills going.