finin Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Well to those of you on the water outside the heads this weekend, what a difference! Beautiful weather, small swell and fish. Water temps are all over the place in different areas all from 17.8 to 21.9 varying over a few hundred meters. The green water is in and is very nutrient full. Seems the winds have done their job and turned it over. Also amazing in the change of species over 1 day. Saturday had plenty of mowies and flatties and a couple of snapper thrown in plus red spot whiting and pike. As soon as the wind dropped the fish stopped biting, but when the noreaster started up about 1100am, the fish came back on. Sunday we knew was going to be the same. Water still green but seemed to be boats everywhere, coogee wide, the peak and off Nth Bondi conditions were great, we could see the boats at the peak! Anyway no pike, no whiting and fishing was very slow again untill the wind picked up. Bloody wind didnt know what it was doing and at one stage we got inundated with butterflies and dragonflies as that norwester hit. Suddenly the boat was covered in spider trails thousands of them all over rods, poles, aerials everything that stuck up was covered in them, we soon had little spiders running everywhere they seemed to be falling out of the sky, quite strange as i have never experienced it at sea before. Funny enough it brought the kingies on, had caught and released 16 varying from 55 - 64 in 20 mins managed one keeper at 67. All beautiful and very healthy too and finished up with usual catch of mowies and flatties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lineclass Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Well to those of you on the water outside the heads this weekend, what a difference! Beautiful weather, small swell and fish. Water temps are all over the place in different areas all from 17.8 to 21.9 varying over a few hundred meters. The green water is in and is very nutrient full. Seems the winds have done their job and turned it over. Also amazing in the change of species over 1 day. Saturday had plenty of mowies and flatties and a couple of snapper thrown in plus red spot whiting and pike. As soon as the wind dropped the fish stopped biting, but when the noreaster started up about 1100am, the fish came back on. Sunday we knew was going to be the same. Water still green but seemed to be boats everywhere, coogee wide, the peak and off Nth Bondi conditions were great, we could see the boats at the peak! Anyway no pike, no whiting and fishing was very slow again untill the wind picked up. Bloody wind didnt know what it was doing and at one stage we got inundated with butterflies and dragonflies as that norwester hit. Suddenly the boat was covered in spider trails thousands of them all over rods, poles, aerials everything that stuck up was covered in them, we soon had little spiders running everywhere they seemed to be falling out of the sky, quite strange as i have never experienced it at sea before. Funny enough it brought the kingies on, had caught and released 16 varying from 55 - 64 in 20 mins managed one keeper at 67. All beautiful and very healthy too and finished up with usual catch of mowies and flatties. Sounds terrible. Rather jealous. I only got one gummy for Saturday down here. Well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alextuck Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Sunday after lunchtime we also got covered in this strange spirder web and little black spiders, If anyone can exlpain as to what has casued this, I would be very interested to know. Sunday afternoon produced heaps of Bonito up to 60cm at North and South head, unfortunately no kings for us! A few undersized snapper biggest going 28cm caught at Long reef Sunday morning. I was finding water ranging all the way from about 15.8 - 17.5.. Finin what did you catch the Kings on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zen801 Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 (edited) Hi Mate, yeah i noticed the white butterflys and also the spider web sticking to rods etc off the coast - weird eh. Didnt notice any spiders. We got kings on Yakkas at LR. Mike Edited December 13, 2010 by zenman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finin Posted December 13, 2010 Author Share Posted December 13, 2010 They were all taken on pillie tails whilst fishing the bottom. My guess is the pre frontal of the nor west bought them in from over the great dividing range, heavy wet weather inland combining with heated land has produced good spawning weather and the little spiders have been sucked up in the updraft blown out to sea along with all the little bugs and butterflies and carried on the wind. It is actually the reverse of what causes seabreezes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishmaniac Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 I copped the tiny spiders and their webs too. They were driving me nuts!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canary05 Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 I saw the same phenomenon (the spiders) in July about 60km off the coast in Darwin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce the Postie Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Yeah!,same up this way. I was copping more spider webs out at sea than i do during the week on the postie bike. For a while there ,i thought they could have been the spiders from Mars. Cheers Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shole01 Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 were they the tiny little black spiders? I was getting them on the lane cove Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gameplay Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 we were at browns mountain and got the spiders there too. joe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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