On The Wonni

[pburton]

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Put in three hours on the kayak, fishing the last of the run out tide. I was tossing small poppers and unweighted plastics to the edges and slowly drawing them out. Got too many hits to count, most happened just as the lure hit the edge of deeper water. I have been using 06556-0(i think) prawns and Squidgie Bugs a lot with the occasional flick bait or wriggler all on worm hooks. I keep the rod high to keep them on the surface and if i see any indication of a fish i drop the tip to give some slack and watch the line. I find some fish will smash it on the surface as soon as you pause and others like to let it sink a little deeper. The hook up rate on the worm hook isn't great but I feel the bigger fish inhale it and i am missing mostly smaller fish. I landed 6 average bream and was too slow on at least that again, still I'd rather miss a few than miss out all together.

[guipago]

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Put in three hours on the kayak, fishing the last of the run out tide. I was tossing small poppers and unweighted plastics to the edges and slowly drawing them out. Got too many hits to count, most happened just as the lure hit the edge of deeper water. I have been using 06556-0(i think) prawns and Squidgie Bugs a lot with the occasional flick bait or wriggler all on worm hooks. I keep the rod high to keep them on the surface and if i see any indication of a fish i drop the tip to give some slack and watch the line. I find some fish will smash it on the surface as soon as you pause and others like to let it sink a little deeper. The hook up rate on the worm hook isn't great but I feel the bigger fish inhale it and i am missing mostly smaller fish. I landed 6 average bream and was too slow on at least that again, still I'd rather miss a few than miss out all together.

seems the wonnie is full of under sized bream at the moment. I haven't snared a decent bream there for a while. Nor have i scored any good flatties either. maybe due to the population on the river at the moment.

[pburton]

Quite a few small fish about but although no thumpers my average fish would be 27 to 30 cm, on pretty light gear they are plenty of fun. Most of my flatties are around the 30 to 35 cm range but i still get them over 40 occasionally, and i have spooked more than one that would have been approching 80cm.

Fished yesterday for a few hours and got two bream at 29 cm. I have been fishing the river for a little over a year and was frustrated at first but now i seem to be doing better. I like to fish the low water with unweighted plastics cast right up to the edges, but yesterday i fished the high to low change, and couldn't get and intrest at the edges. Found fish sitting at drop offs from weed beds.