Georges River Estuary Perch

[seacow]

A report from Sunday.

Down at the Moons on the Georges River on sunday afternoon fishing with a couple of mates with a BBQ and some beers. Fishing away with prawns catching the usual suspects - small flathead, even smaller bream, tailor and those things that look like sweep (I think they are called bat fish)

Had some wives and girls fishing away aswell. A quick side comment, for x-mas we bought the girls (Monica and Jess) pink fishing rods which lit up like a christmas tree when you reeled them in. Annoying as all hell but hey it got them fishing!!!

Anyway Monica is fishing away doing all the annoying things that a 4 year old (she is 24) would do when fishing (bringing in the line all the time, getting the line tangled all the time, making me put bait on all the time) when the rod was nearly torn from her hand. Sure enough after a little tussle Monica pulls up an estuary perch. Not huge - about 28cm but pretty fat.

To say I was astonished and jealous was an understatement. I have fished the Georges for nearly 30 years and never pulled in one!!!

What made it worse was she didn't know what kind of a fish it was nor had any care of how rare they are in those waters.

Well I was led to believe that they are a schooling fish however we didn't get another even though I tried into the night. Not surprisingly she rubbed my nose in it too.

[spinner]

lol sounds like you had a hard time

[The Iceman]

EPs are great fun and far from rare in the Georges

Ive caught plenty but sometimes they can be hard to find

Got a couple on monday along with a few bream

[monica]

monica thinks that you should just get your own pink fishing rod because clearly they are better...

[seacow]

monica thinks that you should just get your own pink fishing rod because clearly they are better...

What about the red and blue lights that flash when you wind it in, in the dark. You mustn't forget those.