Luring In The Lunar Eclipse

After a frustrating outing I've had yesterday down at spot SF, with only 1 bream caught and only 2-3 hits, I wasn't keen on luring for few days. Chen was keen to fish for this week's night-time high tides and so it was his call. I've asked him in the afternoon if he wants to go to a new spot in Iron Cove and he said game on. Waited for him to finish work and we ruck up to the new spot just about an hour more for the incoming. Chen went with his usual camo worm whilst I tried with the Lime Tiger Gulp minnow. Since there wasn't much wind, I went with the 1/32oz. 1st cast already I had a hit but no hookup, damn! Things were looking good as next cast I was still getting hits. Few casts later I hookup solid and this thing fought pretty ok. A nice 32cm bream opened the ceremony for this new spot, good stuffs!

Thanks bro for the piccies. Whilst we were luring, I suddenly saw that the moon had a funny looking red-ish colour and told Chen: "Hey bro, how come the moon tonight look so evil?" Lol, how ignorant was I! Only when I went back and watch the news and that's when they said the event occurred around 8.37pm, which is why we managed to see the best peak time of the eclipse! Evil?! OMG!!!

Seemed that the hot bites were ongoing and Chen was getting heaps of hits till he finally managed to hookup. This fish fought pretty good and when brought up finally, it was a whiting. Good legal size too.

Wanted to take a proper photo but Chen bro too shy lah! Hahaha... It was actually quite a warm winter night and whilst Chen was in light clothings, I wrapped myself like a bloody chinese dumpling! Scored a long but skinny flathead on the lime tiger and we were still getting hits every now and then. I then had some timid bites and began to stop the lure. Twitch a little bit and felt a solid bite. Quickly struck it and I was on. This thing went zzzzz intermittently but would have been going for at least 5 seconds. Funnily it went up surface and I could feel plenty of bumps on the rod. At first I called for a flathead but then it didn't felt like a big fish to run that hard out. Soon, it started swimming side belly and Chen's headtorch shined a Silver Trevally! What?! A trev at night in IC?!

Measured 37cm and what a fight that really was on the Stradic. Woohoo!!! Both of us were stoked at the fact that we were almost getting all the usual estuary species in one night at one spot! Then, the 'one that got away' thing just had to happen. Whilst one of the twitch was done, the lime tiger must have got taken on the drop and next thing was Stradic went on afterburners and orgased both me and Chen. But it was shortlived and relatively gone. KNNBCCB!!! I told Chen: "That one really hurts man!" But I was quite convinced it was also a trev since the line went up surface and their paper lips are renowned to throw hooks. Soon after, it went quiet. I then snagged the lime tiger, shit. Chen did score his second fish and it was his best tussle by a bream that ran pretty good for its size. I changed to the Gulp grub without any noticeable hits till I had a pretty bad wind knot. It was so bad that I gave up and told Chen to call it quits since it was too quiet for him as well.

Ronald