Hot Weather Luring

Catch Report 11/11/2006

Today woke up a bit earlier to help Chen check his trailer lights connection and see what we can do for the boat. As he had to work in the arvo, we only had about an hour to muck around. Good news is the trailer lights works now. Bad news is the front control cables are tricky to be connected. In the end, we pulled out Swift Craft and decided to take it out tommorrow. So I thought might as well give it a start and try to flush the engine. Filled up a 60L bin and submerged the prop and muzzle in the water. The key start was ok but the motor just won't prank. We tried like over 10+ inigtion only to finally get it fire up. But surprising the water weren't drained out from the output nozzle and perhaps we need to put in the water and throttle it up to flush it with water.

After hastily putting Swifty back where she sleeps, Chen headed to work while I went to HC for a lure session. It was a bloody hot day with little winds. Ate a little and proceeded there to find no one else were fishing. Rigged up a watermelon bm 1st and casted away. Tried spraying some of the Stimulate attractant with no effect. So, it's been quite awhile since I've used the camo sandworm and so took a new halved worm and within the 1st cast, felt some bites follow by even stronger bites that took a bit of line. Damn, didn't hook it and brought in my worm to check. Blasted, the worm became 1 inch. Rerigged another and this time, caught quite a few small flatheads at a 'sure-fire' spot. By then the worm was almost in tatters and so I retried the watermelon bm. I resprayed more stimulate and on the 1st cast, got a instant hit and the pull was strong. It lacks running power and couldn't even pull line out from my reel. Still, it was always keeping tension on my rod and up came a 26cm bream.

Cool, seems like the stimuate spray works wonder on 1st casts! Then, the bites went off and I persisted awhile longer. Decided to change to goldie and also sprayed stimulate on it. Cast cast cast while walking along the stretch with nothing. Went past the 'sure-fire' spot and on a finished retrieve, felt a thump on my line and knew it was a flatty. Haha, 1st flattie on goldie! Though only an undersized 34cm model.

Afterwards, the tide was already very low as I started the session on the peak tide. Goldie kept picking up weed and it was frustrating clearing it in every casts. So, changed to camo sandy again and stick with 'sure-fire' spot again. On a drop, the fish took off with my worm and did pulled some line. I thought it was a big one but soon it just let me reel it in easy. Damn it, another 'cannot-run' bream at 28cm.

Afterwards, kept plugging away with few more bites but failed hookup. I was really dehydrated by then and so went back to St Mike for a coldie and a cool shower.

Ronald