king georges park session

[Aussie_fisher]

On Sunday at dusk headed to iron cove, to the jetty at King Georges park. Had seen a shroom video a few days ago and he caught some massive bream there at night on bait so I had to try it. Because I had been getting into lure fishing I had changed all my reels to braid. This time I had decided to use bait after a long time, and unfortunately the running sinker rig wasn't doing too well with braided line (I later figured out you should connect a leader to braided line before putting the sinker swivel and trace thanks to the help of some raiders). The tangles were horrible, one after the other. At dusk I saw a nice flattie caught (on bread!), some whiting and a few small tarwhine. I wasn't able to do anything because of these terrible tangles. Finally I just put a small splitshot a tiny bit above the hook which wasn't ideal but atleast reduced the tangling. I was using prawn and another fisho on the wharf caught a pretty big herring which he gave to me so I used that as well. However the bite had stopped as soon as it got dark. Despite seeing some vids of really good night fishing there with some big bream, even mulloway this time there was nothing. The tide was rising wind was good but they weren't biting and no one was catching anything anymore except for 100s of chopper tailor which went crazy as soon as the dark came in. Everyone was pulling them one after the other. All were around the 20cm mark, biggest one I pulled was 26cm. Still good fun. Left at 10:30pm after a not so successful night fishing trip. A highlight though was a cat just coming on the wharf and chilling with me while I fished, eyeing all the small tailor I caught very eagerly. Not sure if he was a pet or stray. How many of you guys do night fishing? Do you find it to be a good time? 

 

[linewetter]

16 hours ago, Aussie_fisher said:

 How many of you guys do night fishing? Do you find it to be a good time? 

I started night fishing recently with the hour change and it being dark much earlier now.  I find it hit or miss so far.  Even going to the same spots at the same times, sometimes I can catch a good amount of fish or get a lot of interest and then other nights it's just nothing at all.  When it used to get darker later though, I did notice that the bite would die down for me as soon as it got dark compared to when there was still light out - this was a consistent observation as I would be fishing the same wharf, using the same bait (bread), casting in the same area day after day for weeks.  When the sun was setting, I would still get good interest and decent sized fish, but when it turned dark, it went dead or the interest would be infrequent in comparison.  But with lures, I feel like I have more times where I've had interest at night funnily enough in comparison to bait.

[Mike Sydney]

I fish there heaps at night it’s great to be honest. Lots of bream and flathead near the wharf and tailor under the bridge itself. 
@linewetter that’s the wharf by the car park last night 

[Aussie_fisher]

9 hours ago, linewetter said:

I started night fishing recently with the hour change and it being dark much earlier now.  I find it hit or miss so far.  Even going to the same spots at the same times, sometimes I can catch a good amount of fish or get a lot of interest and then other nights it's just nothing at all.  When it used to get darker later though, I did notice that the bite would die down for me as soon as it got dark compared to when there was still light out - this was a consistent observation as I would be fishing the same wharf, using the same bait (bread), casting in the same area day after day for weeks.  When the sun was setting, I would still get good interest and decent sized fish, but when it turned dark, it went dead or the interest would be infrequent in comparison.  But with lures, I feel like I have more times where I've had interest at night funnily enough in comparison to bait.

Some interesting observations there. So far I haven’t had too much luck night fishing anywhere. At dusk everything goes crazy but as soon is the dark comes it becomes a bit quiet but obviously there’s many people who night fish with excellent results so I’m not sure if I’m doing something wrong.

1 hour ago, Mike Sydney said:

I fish there heaps at night it’s great to be honest. Lots of bream and flathead near the wharf and tailor under the bridge itself. 
@linewetter that’s the wharf by the car park last night 

@Mike Sydney do you use bait or lures? Are lures still as effective at night? Do you fish at dusk or when it gets fully dark

[linewetter]

50 minutes ago, Aussie_fisher said:

Some interesting observations there. So far I haven’t had too much luck night fishing anywhere. At dusk everything goes crazy but as soon is the dark comes it becomes a bit quiet but obviously there’s many people who night fish with excellent results so I’m not sure if I’m doing something wrong.

@Mike Sydney do you use bait or lures? Are lures still as effective at night? Do you fish at dusk or when it gets fully dark

If you just want to catch anything at all, then wharves are pretty good for yakka at night. I see them all the time especially if you burley up. When I got bored I would tear the bread super small and toss it at my feet and literally see dozens suddenly show up. 

[Aussie_fisher]

Ye yakkas small tailor and stuff are always around