Bashful Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Just had a few days unwinding down near Mollymook with the family and happy to come home with 2 flatties from Burrill Lake. It was a good time of fishing different locations on SP i.e. wharves,inlets and of course Burrill Lake, and having good chats with the local fishing shop owners to see where to go. Anyways was a bit discouraged when the first shop I went into, the bloke told me I was a month too early and that the big flatties wouldn't be around until the water got warmer. He told me to have a go at one of the jetties which he highly recommended. So turn up with my wife and little girl and get met with overcast skies which were threatening to rain on my parade. But after missing out on the Botany Bay social, I needed to get out there(put out a bait as well as a feeler). A few minutes later a few bait fish come near the jetty and then this beautiful ray glided past,and with the lake being this healthy I thought I'd be real grumpy if I went home with nothing. Well one of the casts was great, sent it out past some ducks (so I thought), then I felt some tension and a duck who was having problems taking off. Hooked the duck!!! Scared for my life, thinking someone must be putting two and two together and thinking that I'm going to take the duck home to make Peking duck or something....I blame my asian ancestry! Well quickly got the duck in and cut my line from around him....crisis over. So a few moments later, put out a nice cast and the SP got carried in the wind and start the slow retrieve and TENSION, hooked a flatty and landed it with no worries. A guy next to me landed a nice bream afterwards and then it started to rain. Didn't have enough the previous day so wake up at 5:30am to hit the lake, this time landing another flatty before the rain came down..so in the end nothing too big - 2 flatties @ 38 cm a piece, but not bad for a time when the lake isn't meant to be firing I've attached the pic of the first flattie I got, didn't have a camera for the early morning one the next day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samboy Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Nice job on the flatties mate, can you eat the fish from Burrill now after what happened a few months back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rikkigilbey Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 nice report mate. good read, lets see some more! looking forward to another blackfish session sometime in the future if your keen Gilbey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bashful Posted September 30, 2011 Author Share Posted September 30, 2011 Nice job on the flatties mate, can you eat the fish from Burrill now after what happened a few months back? Yeah its all ok now... I asked the bloke at the tackle store about that and apparently the system has been flushed with fresh water from rains since then. Also the bloke said that there's been continuous testing of the fish and water since and reports are coming back safe for human consumption. Have to go with the local intelligence on this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bashful Posted September 30, 2011 Author Share Posted September 30, 2011 nice report mate. good read, lets see some more! looking forward to another blackfish session sometime in the future if your keen Gilbey Yeah mate on holidays for another week, so give us a yell when you're free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hookerbruce Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Hi How did you go at Como ? You were seen. Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barberonhigh Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 nice report here mate do u know if the mouth of the lake is open at the moment? is it wide open or is there little water coming in the lake. cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swong Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Hi How did you go at Como ? You were seen. Bruce I was with Dchu yesterday. . unfortunately our day was quite average Picked 3 undersized fish: 2 bream and a tailor (altho the tailor was my first fish using the berkely worm, so that was a small consolation) On one occassion DChu had his reel buzz for a second but it didnt stick :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bashful Posted October 5, 2011 Author Share Posted October 5, 2011 nice report here mate do u know if the mouth of the lake is open at the moment? is it wide open or is there little water coming in the lake. cheers Nah sorry can't help you with that one, I'd only be guessing if I told you I knew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bashful Posted October 5, 2011 Author Share Posted October 5, 2011 Hi How did you go at Como ? You were seen. Bruce Shouldn't flash my face all over fishraider then It wasn't a good day at Como as Spoz said. So Bruce were you the one catching all the blackfish before I went fishing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheap charlie Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Nah sorry can't help you with that one, I'd only be guessing if I told you I knew. Lake is open. The entrance about a week ago would have been knee deep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bashful Posted October 5, 2011 Author Share Posted October 5, 2011 Lake is open. The entrance about a week ago would have been knee deep. Thanks Charlie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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