Clifton Gardens

[Spanker]

Hi Fishraiders,

Inspired by another post from Saturday about Clifton, I went down with a mate last night at 8.00pm. It was 30 minutes until last light, a light breeze to keep the mozzies away and just perfect. Surprisingly there were about 15 people already when I got there.

Side note - there were several fanmilies fishing for yellowtail. They had a couple of buckets fool of them and would have left with 50-60. I know there is no size or bag lmit and that these people were not doing anything wrong but it still makes you feel a little uneasy. Surely it is not sustainable for families to pul out 60 fish each regularly? What can you say? Not sure what to say about this except that thankfully it is only a tiny minority of the population who like to do this or the seas would be a barren watery desert.

Anyway I through out some prawn on the bottom and, at the mention of some taylor being present earlier, threw some chrome around on my spin stick. Tiny taylor first cast. Only one more in the next 20 minutes then it went quiet. A fella I was chatting to (who incidentally admitted to being a silent Fishraider fan ) said earlier a large school of taylor had come into the bay before disappearing, He had a very impressive flattie to maybe 70cm -yum! - and confirmed that Clifton usually fishes better early mornings when you can get all sorts of speciies coming through - nice guy.

Things went quiet - we ended up throughing out prawns, pillies and a slab of taylor for zip after that. You know it is dead when your pillies comes back in pristine condition after 3 casts and 30 minutes in the drink

All in all a magnificent night, will try it again in the morning before long.

Cheers

Spanker

[clutch]

Sounds like a nice way to spend the evening Spanker

Hopefully next time that Flatty will be yours

Agree with your thoughts on the yellowtail, but its comforting to see that there is that much baitfish around

[kahleong]

Hiya there,

Its Jay here, the guy ya met. The flatie was only 55. But been getting minature snapper whole day so its good to get somethign for dinner. The sch of tailors were mainly choppers and they were ard for bout 2 mins and left. However, realised that the gulls where still hanging ard nearlby i reckon the sch should be coming back. 20 mins later a smaller sch appeared and stayed for bout 10-15 mins. Though small, they were quite fun on light tackle and to keep ya busy while i waited for my stick with squid strips to go off ... (but it never happened.. ). Anyway, I was hoping for some kingies or salmon to be under the sch of tailor, there for allowing the metal to sink longer but nothing came up. (<= is this possible?)

Great to have met ya.. hope to see ya there again..

Cheers

Jay