A Revisit With A New Approach

Catch Report for 13/07/2006

It's been a long time since I've fished at Woolloomooloo. It was high tide at night for this week. My usual luring hangouts at sunrise and sunset would be totally dead low which made luring near impossible. On MSN, Chen was suggesting fishing at late afternoon. I told him it will be low tide. Then, I suggested how about trying Woolloomooloo. I've been meaning to go there for luring. He said ok and asked if Phillip can join because his brother Jeff went to Brisbane with his girlfriend and might be bored. I said of course. Then, at night, I remembered I had to watch 24, so I sms Chen and told him we'll have to go a bit later.

Then, Chen knocked on my door and asked whether we're still going. I said let's go then. While in the car on the way there, heavens opened and drizzled a bit. It didn't detered us. Upon reaching there, we made a long walk down the wharf on the restaurants side. That walk triggered back the memories of the past when me, Dylan, Gerald and Kenny used to fished hard-out at the wharf end. The laughters, the ever-lucky Dylan landing one bream after another, the fish that took off with Kenny's rod unsuspectingly and Gerald's funny catches with his handline such as a pike! Sigh, those were the days, which I still cherished deeply.

Anyway, here comes the catch report. I saw a school of fishes yet to be identified swimming around a brightly lit lamp. First thought was yellowtails or small tailors. Tied one berkley power minnow in watermelon colour and lightly casted out. Did a little jiggedy-jig and slam! There was a take. Quickly enough, it was a bream! But unfortunately the fish dropped out when I was lifting it. Guess the hook-up was not good. Couple of casts later I still had fish following it but not interested in it. Then Chen had a hook up on his Silver Fox Squidgy. Up came a healthy looking 30cm bream and I was so happy for him as it was his 1st bream on soft plastics!

He was so shy to take this photo but after much persuasion, he agreed. Well done brudder! Then, came my turn. I was tempted to use a hardbody lure and knowing the fact I don't have many sinking ones, I tried with the Halco Scorpion 35 in a chrome gold colour. That colour was so obvious in the dark and fairly true, there were follows! It was so exhilarating that a particular bream followed the lure and when I stopped it, it was looking to be in attack-mode. A couple of twitch ensued and the bream did a u-turn and took the lure. My rod tip buckled down and I was instantly on! A short fight and I brought up my 1st fish on this lure, yes, it was de-virginised.

It was a totally new experience in "sight-fishing". We were so pumped after landing these 2 but that was about it. I still had the odd takes but somehow always missed. The drizzles came back to irritate us but we stayed on for a little while more before calling quits. We then headed to the Harrys Cafe de Wheels for a normal hotdog and headed back to St Michaels.

A good and nice revisit to this place, and a totally new approach by luring instead of using bait in the past. A great way to spend an evening.

Ronald