Lousy Fishing & A New Lure

Catch Report 22/10/2006

So busy these days with my journal writing but still can find time to squeeze in fishing, excuses.. excuses.. But the fishing is lousy so I cramped in some entries in a post. Getting lazier nowadays to even blog, damn it. Even so, guess fishy news nobody is interested. Enough blabbering. Went to Hen & Chicken Bay on Sunday late afternoon to catch the low-High tide which happens to be at night. Tried a variety of Smilin' Jacks but the water was too damn low. As soon as the day breaks, the mullets were getting busy by doing heaps of acrobatic jumps. Since it was a few days ago catch report, I couldn't remember what I had encounter only to get a 30cm bream on a new camo sandworm. It didn't even put up a good fight though the hook was embedded deep onto its chin. Just before I caught the fish, an old aussie couple walked up to me as they were luring along the stretch. The male uncle asked me the usual question "anything?" just any fisho would ask and obviously I had nothing to brag. Then he proceeded saying he and his wife had a few breams and flatties up stretch where they came from. Then he suddenly said that my Cultiva lure which I was using at that time was very suitable to imitate a mullet. He said he caught a 20kilo jewfish using a hardbody lure (look like an attack minnow version) and showed me the rusty used lure. I was like.. wow.. 20kilo?? Big cannon you reckon? Pfft... Anyhow, I actually believe it since it sound kinda logical and jewfish do really like to eat mullets. So I pounded the water to froth with my cultiva only to have a dropped flathead. That's it, I'm gonna still continue and fall for it, hehe..

Catch Report 24/10/2006

Chen had wanted to get some stuffs for the boat from Super Cheap Auto and so I suggested an early morning session at Kogarah Bay and we can go straight from there to Rockdale's branch. Had quite an early start and luckily by the time we hit Grand Parade road, it was jammed on the opposite side leading to the city. Reached there to only find that the water wasn't so high yet and there was an ugly slick at secret spot. So we moved up to the rocks and casted from there. I tried with the watermelon bm and lost a small flattie with lousy hookup. Nevertheless, it was a good start, only to finish with a lousy result. Continue with the bm and had a noticeable take and a lousy fight from a 41cm flathead. At first I thought it was just a legal fish but after measuring it, turns out over 40. Maybe because the fish looks skinnier than usual. After her release, I got another smallish undersize flattie at the same area. But as all soft plastic fishing will definitely result in a snag and that's the end of watermelon. Chen tried with camo sandworm and had it's 3inch bitten off becoming 2inch. But once he re-rigged a new one, he caught a good size bream. After that, he got another small bream on a virgin pinkie. That was it, a lousy session after being there for 2 hours. We packed up and head over to Super Cheap. Chen bought a 10m trailer light cable and a lens replacement cover for the bulbs as it's essential to get the lights working to prevent the cops from pulling us over for busted lights. Saw a few life jackets which was pretty cheap and seems like we'll be back to get it also.

Then, this afternoon I went back to my room for lunch break to find a small little parcel in front of my door. It's a Jackall Bros Diving Chubby 38 I bought from Japan via eBay! My 1st Jackall lure and the most expensive to date at $22 a pop! Oh my, but sometimes a little indulgence shouldn't be neglected. Yes?

Ronald