Towra Point - 10/4/10

So who's been fishing lately? NOT ME!!! Not even last weekend when it was my birthday! The last time out was two weeks ago when I had an early morning session with Andrew hoping for a few nice bream from the shallows, weedbeds and mangroves. The tide was good, the weather was good and all we needed was for the fish to be there.

But they weren't! I started off by picking up a few small flathead while Andrew landed a legal whiting but set it free to grow a little more. The tide was running out so we figured the fishing would be good but for some reason they just weren't on the chew. Maybe we needed to wait for a bit more water movement before they came on.

I switched from the Sammy 65 to a shallow diving chubby. By now I'd moved out to slightly deeper water and was working the edge of the weedbed where it joined the sand flats. Slow rolls with pauses and a few twitches were the undoing of a nice trevally that raced around the flats with his turbo on. These speedsters are great fun and they taste pretty good, too.

But that was it for me. I landed two more small flathead (good to see so many littl'uns around) before having to head back in. Andrew rang me a few hours later and reported that 45 minutes after I'd left he managed a few bream, the biggest going 33cms fork. If only I'd hung around. Next time I guess. Happy yakkin', everyone!

cheers,
Cid