Upper Woronora Report – 22/10/06

Before I get onto the Woronora, I wanted to quickly report on the dawn raid session I had from La Perouse mid week. Hoping for kingfish or salmon, the day started out promisingly with a nice tailor hitting one of my trolled Halcos 300m from the launch site. I continued outside the north head of Botany Bay to be greeted by a 2 meter swell and a lot of chop. Not great conditions but it was a good test for the Hobie Sports which came through with flying colours.

I scoured the horizons but there were no schools busting up anywhere, no birds working and nothing around any of the washes either. Unfortunately I was limited for time so I had to return with the one tailor. But one fish isn’t enough for dinner so I stopped off at Sylvania Waters on the way home and added a 43cm flattie and two 28cm bream to the menu. All were caught on a Berkley Gulp 2” Baby Shrimp in Molt colour from the moored boats near the boat ramp.

Fordy and I decided to give heading west for bassin’ a miss due to the unpredictable weather so thought the Woronora would be worth a shot with the off chance of getting a bass, too. At launch we were greeted with a shout from the other bank. “How’s this boys?” We pedaled over and said hello to Glen from Sutherland who’d just landed a nice jewfish from the shore. I snapped a quick photo, said congrat’s and we set off up river.

We worked the pontoons and snags and picked up a few bream as we went. I was absolutely smoked by something hard in amongst the snags of a fallen tree. Maybe a big bream, maybe a big EP, either way, I’ll never know. But it was fun while it lasted (about 2.6 seconds). Plus we were attacked by a very territorial duck that zoomed over towards us quacking his head off. He tried to climb into our yaks to bite us and then escorted us 50 meters upstream until we left his area. Very funny.

We made it all the way up to ‘The Needles’ (where the weir is) and stretched our legs before being pushed back by the wind which was now up to about 15 knots. We finished up with 3 keepers, which were all 27cm’s exactly. We caught a heap of smaller bream and a few flatties too which is good to see. It shows the future keepers are in the system in plentiful supply. Happy yakkin’, everyone!

Cheers,
Cid