Nothing Again!

[clem]

Left home at 6.30pm picked up my mate and off we went.Got to palm beach pool at 8pm and packed up by 9pm.Tried another spot around the corner and an hour later we were on our way again.Ended up at curl curl and tried the pool over there and an hour later went to the rocks and tried there for another hour or so.On our way home I said to my mate that if we were to tell people that we fished for 4 hours and not even a nibble at any of the spots they would not believe us.

Well who's report are you reading.If you have followed my adventures in any way you would realise that this is the norm for me.I reckon the powers above have something to do with it.Only kidding as I would not want to offend people and their beliefs.

The only action we got was watching a couple of guys being chased by the cops down the road.

Well it is now 3AM and I need to get my beauty sleep as I have to baby sit tomorrow/today.

I cannot be miserable or I may not get my passport stamped again.

P.S. Looking forward to next week as I am going away for the weekend to Windang Tourist Park.Wish me luck as I will need it "BIGTIME"

At least I am not to about it.

Cheers and Goodnight

Clem

[adjustedpete]

Join the club. Ive been out the last 3 nights in a row for zip. Last night I could only get 1 yakka, When I put it out as a livie a squid killed it in the first 5 minutes and I didnt even get the bloody thing. But...............CANT WAIT FOR TONIGHT. I just hope the understands.

[jewgaffer]

..........Got to palm beach pool at 8pm and packed up by 9pm.Tried another spot around the corner and an hour later we were on our way again.

'''''''''Ended up at curl curl and tried the pool over there and an hour later went to the rocks and tried there for another hour or so

............On our way home I said to my mate that if we were to tell people that we fished for 4 hours and not even a nibble at any of the spots they would not believe us.

..............I reckon the powers above have something to do with it.Only kidding as I would not want to offend people and their beliefs.

..................The only action we got was watching a couple of guys being chased by the cops down the road.

.............Clem

Hi Clem I'll give you some food for thought here and a couple of examples of successful landbased fishermen who have fished thru all tides in their time and now only fish the best bite periods...... Having established that tide times and prime bite times go together and being encouraged by getting results, many go out and fish more often than they did before........

The fishermen I refer to are not hard to recognise as soon as you see them..... If you watch what they are doing and take a note of what time they start and what time they leave, you will see that they are only fishing tides..... Although many of them only fish to catch fish to take home, others like to keep in practice by fishing the tides and releasing their fish ........These particular fishermen that I am referring to do not fish or plan to fish in the middle half of a tide......

If they are just having a day out near the water with the women and kids etc and the mid half of a tide corresponds with the time, the only success story you will hear is how the kids caught an octopus, Dad caught the only ray in the vicinity and someone's uncle Bill, who caught a fish there twenty years ago, kept on raving about the midday moon so much that he finally got attacked by a swarm of bees...... if you look hard enough, there are a lot of uncle Bill's fishing landbased among the jetty mutes at the worst part of the tide at midday

For instance some tide fishermen love the sport and go out to fish either in rain or sunshine... They could be younger experienced fishermen or older people only fishing to be able to eat..... Some might carry a rod in the boot so they can fish the tide, either on their way home from work, or coming back from shopping etc..... In some cases tide fishermen can simply walk across the road or if they live on the waterfront just walk out the back door and fish the best bite period according to tide and bring in a couple of fish or more in time for dinner.....

The peak times for catching fish are an hour and a half thereabouts each side of low and high tide......Take a note of the tide when you see a local fishermen with a live bait bucket whilst you're on holidays or when you see a bloke that has a certain look about him when he casts a beach rod or flicks a lightly weighted rod even if he is wearing a shirt and a tie......

As to the tide situation in the locations you fished yesterday, we had an afternoon low tide at 3.50pm which would suit a landbased fishermen finishing work at 4pm to some extent on the day (Sunday afternoon low tide and up looks good and conditions look very good even at this stage)...... However yesterday he would have missed the critical last quarter of the run out and the changeover when starting around say 4.30pm.... Even so, he should have fished no longer than say 6 o'clock and then gone home, get what I mean.....

A tide fishermen going out especially for the 10.07 pm high tide last night would arrive at 8.30 pm and make sure he fished a good location for the the change over and had good water in easy casting distance for the first two hours of the run out, which would have meant he would have to stay half an hour or so past midnight to give himself every chance in accordance with tide.

Hope this helps with your fishing Clem as far as fishing tides is concerned.... You'll be able to fish from the top down on the beach at Windang and from before the bottom up inside.

Cheers

jewgaffer

Edited March 13, 2009 by jewgaffer

[Davemmm]

At least your getting out.

I havent been out for a bit and dont look like wetting the bottom of the boat till easter.

Dave

[tevoro]

Hope this helps with your fishing Clem as far as fishing tides is concerned.... You'll be able to fish from the top down on the beach at Windang and from before the bottom up inside.

Cheers

jewgaffer

Very informative reading jewgaffer! Thanks for writing that, it certainly gives a noob like me great thought on when to go fishing!

Cheers

[clem]

Hey just for your info that was meant for me only

JUST KIDDING GUYS!

If I were not useless no one would learn from reports like these.

Thanks for that Byron and hopefully things work out for me next week.

Cheers Clem

[roosterman]

what byron has said is pretty spot on clem ..

best to get to spot about 2hrs before change so you have baits out in time then pull the pin about an hour or 2 after change..

as with all fishing structure is the key...

gutters/holes/ends of beaches with rocky formations,etc.... etc...

put the time in and only move if the currents too strong or too weedy....

there is a few nice bream off the beaches atm and last few times i went there was big sharks also...

thurs night i had fun with a huge ray for 15 min till i got sick of it and busted him off as i had no chance of getting terminal tackle back..... also dropped a nice breambo in the shorebreak and they were attacking my big jew baits...

in saying all that... whenever you have a line in the water anythings possible as if a fish is hungry he wont wait till moon/tide etc so if ya baits there and ya lucky anythings possible....

good luck... cheers...steve.....

[hooklineandsinker]

Hey just for your info that was meant for me only

JUST KIDDING GUYS!

If I were not useless no one would learn from reports like these.

Thanks for that Byron and hopefully things work out for me next week.

Cheers Clem

everyone has a day were they my catch nothing or little who are landbased

jewgaffer you are a wealth of knowledge