Tried newly learnt theory on the beach---15/1/2012

[wchh]

Arrived at the beach10:30 am this morning and saw another two fishos fishing in the spot I usually fish from, so had to stay at the southern end of the beach for about one hour until they packed up. Moved over to realize why they packed up as there were a lot of weeds in the water and the water was washing sideways pretty strongly.

I had two rods with me today as I anticipating there would not be a lot of people on the beach due to the weather. As usually, I casted out half pilly on a 3/0 suicide hook with a star sinker using the 11 ft rod (at most 10 feet left as the tip broken off about a year ago but owing to it light action, this remained my favorite rod) to as far as I could and the thing landed near the break and held and bottom firmly.

As I have read a few tips recently from other fellow raiders re beach fishing, I decided to try the strategy "fishing light in the close-in gutter" as there is a fairly deed gutter literally at my feet. Again bait was half pilly on a 3/0 suicide hook the sinker was a lighter snapper sinker, this thing runs around in the water a lot I have to pull it back and re-bait every 5 minutes.

At 3:30 pm when I packed and left, the tally was: Star sinker/outer gutter 4, light sinker/close-in gutter 0.

Maybe close-in gutter should be fished night time as fish does not come that close during bright day time?

As far as sinker goes, I favor a star sinker over light sinker as it gives me a higher hook up rate for bream, flathead and the likes. I guess the star sinker works as a bit of anchor and helps to set the hook automatically when the fish takes the bait and run.

High tide is going to be around 8:00pm next Saturday, will it be a good time to try the beach jews?

Charles