Holiday Fishing

[Rick T]

G'day all

I have been trying to squeeze in some fishing while on holidays but bubs has really kept me on my toes so have only been able to manage a few short sessions. Fishing has been mainly dull which is suprising for this time of year, the water temps are really up there.

Wednesday I fished the local nepean from 5.30-8.30am for a fairly hot little session. Landed five fish in the first hour of light on my fav surface lure and had plenty of swipes aswell. They ranged from 20-30cm fork length so nothing massive but fun anyway. I moved to the deeper weedbeds and submerged timber later in the morning using TN50's and picked up a few more little tackers. I had a solid run on what should have been the fish of the day but pulled the hooks when I thumbed the spool . Overall a nice relaxing and enjoyable morning

Friday I fished pittwater targetting kings. Arrived at 5.30am to find the ticket machine out of order so I took a pic as I had a feeling the council may fine me anyway.

Started searching around the area we have been hooking rats and there wasn't a fish in sight so grabbed a few squid then tried trolling a few rigs up the west side and out to west head. I had a popper, a 9" sluggo and squid strips with a 200g raider teaser. Trolled accross to the Joey where a major wan@#$ decide to drive over my lines. Got the raider back in time but the other 2 lines got tangled on his boat and was peeling line off. I quickly thumbed the spools to break the lines but lost $30 of lures. I had a few kind words and had a laugh when I could hear the sound of my popper rattling somewhere on the bottom of his boat or skeg. He turned around and headed back to the ramp . Stopped to say g'day to Joe then went back to the moorings that I started from to see if any fish had turned up. Had a chat with a fly fisherman and he hadn't seen much so I did a bit of bream fishing around scottland. Pick up a few solid bream over 30cm and called it a day at 10.30am. Just to make the day worse u can guess the council had fixed the meter and fined me $70

Hit the lower parra at 4pm yesterday avo till dusk for a quick bream session. Mainly fished my fav shorelines as the 20knot winds were a bit to stiff for fishing the moored boats. Picked up about 8 or so legal to average bream, a few flatties and a few choppers. It was a fitting welcome back after not fishing the parra for close to half a year and I quickly remembered why. No where to avoid the wind, ferry wakes and idiots at the ramp Heres a few pics of the fellas that joined me for dinner.

Edited January 4, 2005 by Rick T

[patl]

Friday was terrble around Pittwater and joey, there was heap of big boats going to Sydney for NYE and none of them realised how much wash they put off or cared for that matter.