Die Hard 4.1: Braving The Cold

This week seemed to be a busy week as I had to supervise some students in Shell for their 3rd year industry attachment. Been itching to wet the line since Saturday. Phil called me up to watch Die Hard 4 movie at night and so I thought I'll go buy the tickets 1st and go for a quick flick whilst waiting for him to finish his evening lessons. Was contemplating to head to sure-fire but then I reckon I could only fish for an hour as it's a pretty far drive and so made a quick change and drove away from Officeworks and head over to a spot which I haven't been visiting for donkey ages! Ah, there I was, good ol' Glebe. Have been disappointed many times in the past trips with zero catches and super cold winds that I thought the nearest spot to us wouldn't be our favourite playground. Anyway, reached there in double quick time to be greeted with quite a cold southwesterly wind which meant that the casting had to be done in an angle. I knew it would be hopeless or too cold to feel for soft plastics and so I just try with Tango. After luring for like 5 minutes I was already tempted to give up and head back to office. The wind was not too strong but enough to make me super uncomfortable. I thought that was it, until I just randomly tried casting against the wind and lure at an angle near the canal. Finally got something after almost 30 minutes of persistence. Baby bream again, sianz...

Then, it was mayhem time. Based on the time stamps of the photos, I was like getting one fish every 10 minutes or so. The next fish came as the best of the night, going to 29cm tip. It certainly felt heavy when I tried to hoist it up from the high wall. Fight wise, not that good.

I kept getting hits and knew that the action was hotting up, or maybe I didn't cast correctly. All I knew was I kept putting on more and more megastrike and the hits were soon converting to hookups. This third fish was small but one of the weirdest bream I've ever seen.

The tail is not forked and it has net-damaged dorsal fins! Gave me the creeps as how the surrounding shipyards might have done to the marine life there! Anyway, the fishes were on the bite. Quick look at the watch and I knew I don't have much time left before meeting Phil. Kept casting to that same spot and there indeed was a school. Number 4, 5 and 6 came in quick succession.

The baro was up as well so it might have triggered the school to come in close and feed. Funny thing is when I didn't cast correctly or way out of the trajectory, the hits or hookups won't come, but the moment I cast at that sweet spot and wind in slowly, they would go mad on the lure. Tango is suffering big paint lost for sure, makes me wanna get one more eh... hehe... control.. control..

Left the fish biting and went to pick up Phil from UTS. Die Hard 4.0 is really worth watching for the action.

Ronald