Beautiful Hawkesbury

[mitch]

HI Raiders,

Decided to head down the Hawks on Sunday for a flick. In the middle of moving houses and the old man and little brother have been giving me a hand so it was decided the 3 of us deserved a day on the water.

Got on the river around 0630, beatufil glassed out conditions and an almost high tide. Got the boat on the water and yep ot started pouring on us. Oh well a little water won't hurt ya. headed about 5k down river to one of my usual spots and the action started off the first cast. Not what we were chasing but a nice 60cm Lizard for my brother on the Damiki Vault. Action was fairly constant with the Flatties and thankfully a few good Bream started to come to the boat. All fish on our first run fell to a variety of Holographic Vaults, namely in the Iwashi colours. As the tide started to turn we moved to a few runs of pontoons. The little brother stuck to the Vaults as I went to a WOW Grub and the old man a D Grub. started a little slow with a couple of smaller fish. We finally came across a run of 5 pontoons with a lot of bream feeding. I flicked the WOW grub tight into the gap in the potoon and instantly drag was screaming and I was onto the first real decent one for the day. a mintue later a nice 1.3kg was netted and in the well. Meanwhile my dad has cast at the next pontoon and is calling for the net, before I knew it he self landed a prime kilo fish and we were all pretty happy. Next cast I was on again and another fish was brout to the boat. Things were looking good and then we came across the flatties again. A move was on the cards to a large drop off with a few nice boulders below. I persisted with the WOW grub and the others had on a Vault and 4" Bing. We all ended up hooking onto a few nice fish in this area with a couple nudging the kilo mark and a handful around 30cm. We were having a great day out and decided one more stop before heading home. we alternated between the Bings and Vaults and got onto a score of flatties with 2 around the 80cm mark a schoolie, some pinkies, a rogue flounder and a couple more Breambo's.

All in all a damn geat day on the water and I can't wait to get my hands on the new 45 and 55mm Vaults for some field testing.

The Hawks is firing at the moment, hope the Harbour is the same come Wednesday

Mitch

[1975]

looks like those samples are doing the trick, nice work mate

[Hodgey]

Great report once again Mitch. Couple of questions for you;

Are the Damiki Vaults blades?

Have you tried the Bings in 1.5 - 2" sizes

Sounds like you really got amongst them mate, with everyone in the boat getting in on the action. Good luck on the Cod

Cheers

Hodgey

[The Iceman]

Good session Mitch

I have some packs of damiki m grubs in my favorite colour

They work well

[tide'n'knots]

hey mitch do you mind if I ask what part of the hawkesbury you were fishing? I am figuring somewhere near brooklyn but I am hoping as you come from windsor that it may be further upstream. i would like to try my usual spot around wisemans but I am not sure after all this rain what it is like at the moment.

thanks Pete.

[mitch]

Thanks guys,

Sorry for the late reply. All PM's have now been replyed to.

Hodgey, the Vault is the Blade, there is also 2 new model blades coming out soon. I have quite a few boxes of the Bings and there great. They are a very soft but strong plastic, there hand poured. The 1.5" is a great finesse lure, im sure you'll have fun with it. the 4" would be great around the trees down your way too.

Mitch

[Hodgey]

Hodgey, the Vault is the Blade, there is also 2 new model blades coming out soon. I have quite a few boxes of the Bings and there great. They are a very soft but strong plastic, there hand poured. The 1.5" is a great finesse lure, im sure you'll have fun with it. the 4" would be great around the trees down your way too.

Mitch

Thanks for the info, Mitch .. much appreciated

Hodgey