Hi all,
Down at an overfished wharf in my local estuary I have been fishing consistently to learn as much I can about what conditions are best for catchin' fish.
On the night of the June new moon I went down with my mate Hamed and the tide was massive! The whole area was basically flooded.
Managed a cockney bream here and there, a nice whiting plus a few yakkas. Me and the mate had no idea how to use the livies so we just left them in the aerated esky until we would use them. Some guy comes down and after much chatting I told him he may aswel chuck out a livie with that spare rod. He does so and 5 minutes later pulls in a nice flatty which went almost 70cm, a real croc. Reluctantly we let him take it home and not us, but all is well.
The next day he drives me down there and we try the same thing. Bam, like clockwork I tell you. Up comes another flatty only about half a metre but nonetheless tasty.
This has squashed my superstition that you only get flatties in the warmer months.
I spent that Saturday at Narrabeen lakes with another mate. Fished from about 10am til 10pm
Very tough day's fishing
It took us about 4 hours to find poddies which in the warmer months swarm in their thousands and can be stocked up on within half an hour. Once finding the poddies we had to trick the ducks into leaving which was challenging. Once we had a couple in the foam esky it started gushing down rain, but an hour later when it left we managed to bring it up to half a dozen perfect sized poddy mullet.
Chucked poddies everywhere, not even the deep area after the first biiig sand flats in the lake produced, nothing touched them. Only once did one of the poddies get spooked by something big, but much to my displeasure they got left alone.
By about 4 my friend had left and I had lost my keenness. Still nothing would touch nay poddies anywhere, with any rig. Come 8 pm I went over to the mouth area of the lake near ocean st bridge and managed a little 30cm flatty when bouncing a chunk of market bought salted mullet chunk, she went back in quick smart without any happy snaps which is unusual for such a lovely lookin fish.
All in all a disappointing and miserable day. I've fished for longer and got less fish and been happier than this. I attribute it to the rain and cold
On the July full moon I went out with Hamed again to the local and we just couldn't turn the yakkas in to anything tasty, plus we got absolute drenched and cold. My hands seized up and I couldn't tie a knot if my life depended on it at that stage
Going to beach bash at Narrabeen this Saturday and this is something I've never done so we'll see what happens, then next weekend I'll be fishing somewhere Northern beaches too. Plus during the week should hit up the local to learn how it fishes inbetween full and new
Cheers,
Dave
