Shit Fishing Days Looming

The past week has been continuous rain and cold westerly winds. This had and will probably put down the bites of the fishes. Over the Anzac holiday, it was raining and so our boat trip was not a go'er. It was still raining on thursday but as soon as the sky cleared a little by mid afternoon, I snuck out for a quickie. Got there kinda late and the high tide wasn't impressive. Put on the River2Sea static shad and when trying to spray some ultrabite, the bloody can doesn't work again! It was pretty quiet initially till when I thought I hit some snag, I started cranking in fast. Suddenly a fish jumped onto the lure and I knew it was a pesky tailor!

Ok lah, at least lure not virgin liao. Continued with the lure and got a timid hit and totally no struggles at all. It was just a baby bream, but quite well hooked on a size 16 owner ST-36.

Soon, the light had faded. I went to my Lucky LC tango and did a slow roll. Once it got near the bank, the lure powered off. The pulls were strong, but this 30cm bugger didn't take much line, just jerking along the way.

Continued for another 30mins without anymore hits and I knew it was dud. The tide was quite low by now and I wrapped up for joe's dinner.

With the thoughts of getting nasi campur since I hadn't had it for quite sometime, I went to wet my line again and skipped nancy's dinner. Went off to Hen & Chicken Bay after a super long absence and got to the drains. The journey there was pretty trafficky and thus reached there quite late. Threw in my Gulp grub and on the 1st drop, there were hits already. But that was all it mustered up, except for one drop flattie which I reckon was small. Got fed-up with that spot and left for Iron Cove. Once I reached IC, it was already dark. Use the previous grub and was starting to find a patch of flatties territory. Got a total of 4 with the biggest one at 43cm. I was surprised that only this ONE grub could withstand so many flatties thrashings! I kept re-rigging it by poking here and there to make the smashed gulp stay on the jighead, yes, I'm cheapskate! The bloody camera played on me when I wanted to take a pic of the 43.

Got a 2 more small breams on the same grub before it really couldn't stay on the jighead anymore. Nice, 1 gulp = 6 fishes. As the water was kinda low by now, I gave tango another run. Stupid ultrabite can still cannot spray. On about less than 50cm of water, I kept getting hits near the oyster encrusted rocks but couldn't hook up, the risk of modded lures! Refined the technique a bit and paused the lure many times. Finally it works and got a 28cm bream. Suddenly the camera wanted to co-operate!

It was late and I was very tired by then. Such is NO LIFE. Haiz.. don't think so much and go get my fix.

Ronald