Friday @ Terrigal.

[jed38]

After driving from Windsor we hit the water at about ten. Headed straight out to the gravel beds and started drifting the bottom with a nice mild souwester blowing us along.

Relatively quiet for a while with a handful of juvie flatties and some undersize reds keeping us amused. Managed to pick up two keeper flatties on this drift and powered back to try again. Second drift bagged us nothing so we decided to try one of the close in reefs.

Nothing major except a load of wrass chomping on the baits. Kept a few and threw a heap back. Got a bit bored with the wrass so we headed back to the gravel in the hope of a nice big red.

The wind had changed to a soueaster and we must have drited over a pippy bed or something for in about a ten minute burst we land two 60cm flatties and a 45cm one, a mixture of sand and dusky, plus a mowie or two. Tried to find the drift again using the GPS but could not replicate the previous drift. Gotta be lucky sometimes!

Tried the reefs one more time for a sampson fish and a couple of sargent bakers, which went back in. After a few brewskies and not much more action we headed back to the ramp, cleaned up and headed home. All up we managed to bag 5 flatties, 2 mowies, 4 wrass and a leather jacket.

A pretty good day all round with beautiful weather, good mates, (although one looked greenish all day), and a feed of fish. We'll be heading back up there soon in order to bag that elusive big red.

Cheers Jed.

PS: Sorry no photos as we have eaten the evidence!!!!

[swansea_fisho]

After driving from Windsor we hit the water at about ten. Headed straight out to the gravel beds and started drifting the bottom with a nice mild souwester blowing us along.

Relatively quiet for a while with a handful of juvie flatties and some undersize reds keeping us amused. Managed to pick up two keeper flatties on this drift and powered back to try again. Second drift bagged us nothing so we decided to try one of the close in reefs.

Nothing major except a load of wrass chomping on the baits. Kept a few and threw a heap back. Got a bit bored with the wrass so we headed back to the gravel in the hope of a nice big red.

The wind had changed to a soueaster and we must have drited over a pippy bed or something for in about a ten minute burst we land two 60cm flatties and a 45cm one, a mixture of sand and dusky, plus a mowie or two. Tried to find the drift again using the GPS but could not replicate the previous drift. Gotta be lucky sometimes!

Tried the reefs one more time for a sampson fish and a couple of sargent bakers, which went back in. After a few brewskies and not much more action we headed back to the ramp, cleaned up and headed home. All up we managed to bag 5 flatties, 2 mowies, 4 wrass and a leather jacket.

A pretty good day all round with beautiful weather, good mates, (although one looked greenish all day), and a feed of fish. We'll be heading back up there soon in order to bag that elusive big red.

Cheers Jed.

PS: Sorry no photos as we have eaten the evidence!!!!

Good on you mate, Unlucky about the Big Red. Should of headed up the Coast more A few mates of mine were catching fish to 65cm on Soft plastics just off Norah head.... Next time your up this way mate let us know I might tag along too if thats alright, really wouldn't mind getting back into those Reddies

Steve