Last Few Weeks:- Parramatta river, central coast, middle harbour

[reubs]

Hey Raiders,

Its been a busy couple of weeks but with a few fishing stops thrown in here and there its been fun, disappointing and frustrating all in the one bag. For starters I was down at a wharf on the parra river not far from the gladesville bridge just having a flick with some plastics around high tide, caught a couple of undersize tailor which went straight back in the drink, another bloke at the wharf caught a few of the same, butterflied it and threw it out with some hooks in it and landed a 5kilo Jew! I must admit I really wanted to join in his illegal fishing technique but persisted to throw out a large 5inch shad into the darkness for nothing.. it did get me fired up and ready to get onto some fish myself so after a tip off from the bait shop I headed up the central coast loaded up with some snap frozen squidlets and a bag of servo prawns and in the darkness of the night trekked over the sand dune on the soft white stuff and setup a friend who hadn't caught anything before...She did quite well bagging 6 legal bream 28-33cm and not one but 2 soapies one going 47 the other going 55. I single handedly landed the smallest bream of the day at 26cm :|. My bad luck streak hasnt ended just yet but infact started a few weeks prior when a mate and myself spent the night out in middle harbour, he caught a trag, snapper and a bream and I went home with ZIP! even after forking out for fuel and bait.

I had thurs and friday off last week so decided to do an overnighter on the central coast hoping to bag a few for the table, tried the entrance beach for nothing but seaweed and my fishing buddy hooked a nice big toadie. We moved around to a few different beaches the first being the one at norah head boat ramp where we soaked some baits for no hits at all.. moved around to a little further north where there was a carpark and had a nap until the sun came out.. On sunrise we hit the water and were ready to get our game on.. but alas there were no fish..I remember seeing one single fish doing a couple of leaps out of the water within casting distance but no such luck was to be mine.. once the swell and the waves started to pick up and it was a bit rough for the beach we headed to the rocks at norah head and fished off the northside where there is a nice dropoff with a few other people already there before us. A couple of blokes were fishing for blackies but I didnt see any downs or witness any fish landed by him. Another bloke hooked onto a salmon using chicken for bait but lost it at the rock edge. I had a few followers on my zman plastic retrieved high in the water column but no luck with a hookup.

thats all for now folks hopefully the winds of change hit this weekend!

Reubs

[PRED-ATOR]

Good report Reubs,

badluck on the jew front but when you crack one on a lure, it will be that much more rewarding.

[Guest hawkesbass]

unlucky on the capture front but being out and about is better than being indoors.

the form slump will turn around and you will back too landing them in notime

[leonardgid]

hi there, i probably am about to tell you things that you already know , fishing during winter can be good if you use heaps of burley, making sure that the only thing that will have a good feed out of it is baitfish only , make sure that it smells also, because that way it will cover allot of ground , what some people dont know about burley is that it only works with fish downstream of it , but thats another story, so if you want it to work burley an area well in advance and continue to do that for as long as an hour , just because you are using burley dont expect every spot to bring fish around , there are places like shallow water were nothing will show up during winter especially if you can see the bottom , remember that the water is allways cleaner during winter, the big problem with it is that it can bring those small chinaman leatherjackets around , and if that is the case you may as well move to another spot, good luck and let me know how you went next time you fish with allot of burley.

[Robinsoi]

Good on you Ruebs for abiding by the rules and for persisting with your fishing endeavours.

You helped someone get onto their first fish so very well done and that must have been rewarding for you

Hopefully you will get onto some nice fish on your next outing.

Ian

[reubs]

Thanks guys will be taking my CEO and his 9yr old out on Monday on the boat heading to pittwater but may venture to Cowan creek...will see how we go I suppose I've just decked the boat out with some rod holders and a bait board which will clear alot of clutter with a bit of luck

[Guest hawkesbass]

Better get him onto some fish or you might get a dont come in tomorrow