Stockton Easter Sunday (updated)

[Dave_]

G'day Raiders,

I went to Stockton with the family yesterday. The plan was to have a picnic at the park and then have a not too serious cast off the rocks.

Weather was awesome and it was almost dead low tide. I tied on a Z Man minnowz in mood ring colour and the mrs and the young fella used prawns. First cast and my young fella was on and he landed a 35cm Tarwhine. Beauty. 5 minutes later and the mrs had a 28cm Tarwhine. Good start.

My plastics were getting mauled by chopper Tailor, even on the bottom, it's a good thing the z mans are almost Tailor proof haha. I hooked up to something solid in close to the rocks but I dropped it. Next cast was exactly the same. Frustrating.

The big Tarwhine kept coming. I've never seen them on like that before. They fight hard when they're big too. The mrs got a 28cm Bream too. Next cast she was on to something different, heaps of weight and a different fight. Up came a 55-60cm Lizard. Panic ensued and the 6lb mono snapped before we could grab the net. Bugger.

More Tarwhine come in, nothing under 25cm. We kept about half a dozen. Suddenly the young fella is on to what I thought was a big Tailor. I couldn't believe it, a big Mullet took a prawn. That's the second strange Mullet capture by us in the last week haha. We let it go.

The guy beside me landed a 40cm Snapper on a prawn. That was a surprise.

I got a few small chopper Tailor on plastics and then I nailed a nice Flatty on the plastic. It went 44cm and into the esky, it didn't make up for losing the big one though! We had enough fish in the box by this time so we left them biting.

Sorry but I didn't get pics of the Tarwhine.

Cheers

Dave

Edited April 11, 2015 by Dave_

[RexSenior]

Well done mate!

Nice to see some decent fish being caught locally.

I posted a report a couple of hours ago about an Easter Sunday night fish @ Blacksmiths Beach. We had the same result as you, had these random big tarwhine up and down the beach I've never caught one over 30cm until that night where they were all 30cm+ with the biggest over 40cm. Wonder why that is?

Anyway great work.

Cheers, James

[sebcox]

That's a big mullet!

Sounds like a great family fishing session. Well done

[Dave_]

Went to the same spot today and got 2 37cm Flatties on plastics, a 30cm Bream and a 38cm Tailor. There were a million bait fish in the water and the were hundreds of chopper Tailor eating them and also a penguin, a sea turtle and a giant eel. I also saw a bunch of Kings fly through in a flash but I didn't see them again.

Edited April 11, 2015 by Dave_