First Time Seeing A Weir

This afternoon Jialiang asked me if there was any fishing plans. I told him I'm heading down to Villawood's Compleat Angler store for the final day of the sale, as well as popping by the Georges River stretch at Liverpool. He didn't go but Chen went with me after his work. It was quite a long drive to the west, probably my second time doing it as I never ventured much to the "wild" west as what Chen always described.

When we were at the tackle store, it was a huge place! Almost like a fishermen fantasy come through! But the lure section was a bit let down in my opinion. Anyway, Chen finally found his 5'6" rod for boating. I in the end somehow have to buy something to constitute the effort of travelling that far. End up buying a Ecogear SX-48F hardbody lure which I've already had the 40 model.

We drove down to Liverpool and it wasn't that far from Villawood. It's quite a huge town, and the train station looks sophisticated! We parked very near the weir and there was a ethnic party going on nearby. They were playing loud folk dance music and having a blast! The weir (not sure what it means) is basically a man-made structure that separates fresh water and salt water of a river system. Here's a picture of the salt water side while we were standing on it to fish.

And this is a pic of the fresh water side.

My primary aim of coming to this place to check it out was for the fresh water side fishing. I had a goal and that was to get my first Australian Bass before going back to Singapore. I heard that using topwater lures like a popper is popular for dusk fishing. Long story short, we didn't get shit and was freaked out by what was a glass bottle thrown at the overhead foot bridge and it smashed quite near where we were standing. It was indeed a dodgy place, don't think we'll be back there again, unless I was pretty sure there's genuine reports of bass being caught there.

Ronald