Tides Good, Wind Sucks

The tide for sure-fire has arrived again. With the high anticipation, it sure has put a dent to my thesis corrections, shit.. Well, I tried to buck up and make sure I meet the dateline to submit the changes. Anyway, time is running out for me in bleaming-land. Honestly speaking my bleam quota also don't know up to what. Got small fish big fish I also happy. After I went to immigration and get a visa sticker (hate going there), I went to plunder Australia's bream population. Grab some feed while in Chinatown as well.

Reached there to be greeted with some winds, was actually hoping for calm conditions. Seeing that there's still 1.5 hours before highest tide, I went with hardbodying 1st. This time round I also brought out Stradic, cause not contented to only catch a bream with it. Put on the Megabass Smolt and cast near the snags. No takers. Moved further down and on a particular far cast, blackhole started bouncing. Small fish.

Oh well, not a donut trip for sure. On the 2nd cast after that release, another take and a good hookup. The whole treble in the fish mouth! But, even smaller fish, sianz...

All the fishes felt icy cold yet again, different from the last few outings. Even the lures felt cold! Damn, I knew I'm not into hot bites for sure. Things got interesting when I started to use a neglected sp which I had since long time ago. Rigged up a Ecogear Bug Ant on the modded jighead and casted near the snag. I believe it was the 2nd cast on a slow twitch very near to the snag. It was a funny take which I couldn't feel much but then the next thing is zzzzzz.... SONG AH!!! Finally Stradic sang properly! This one suddenly head into the snag and I know.. oh oh.. Once I heard enough of shimano's drag, time to tighten up! Quickly stumble away from the snag and skull drag that fish out. She swam towards the bank and I knew it was a bream. Loosen the drag a bit since it's safe territory and it made Stradic sang once more.. It was quite big and so had to try and lip grip it but luckily goes to plan.

36cm to da tip. When releasing it, the moment I put into water and drag the bugger forward and backward to revive it, it suddenly shot off, reverse and headbutt onto the bank wall! Hahaha... so funny but later on it flip belly up and floated! Oh no... too far for me to reach it and grab it back but after a few seconds, it swam away correctly... phew! Continued with the Bug Ant but got snagged later, TAMADE!!!

Changed to the wriggler seeing that the light is fading. With the winds, it made the surface a bit choppy. There was no evident sightings of surface activities.. Damn! Tried the wriggler at various spots to no avail until I came back near to sure-fire. Felt a bite but couldn't convert so cast again and then thought that I had a solid bite, strike, but no hookup?! Put a heap more Megastrike pizza and voila, I reckon this thing really works! A slightly better bream than the previous 1st twos.

It was kinda dark and I thought it'll be pretty pointless to fish the run-out and so packed up and headed back. Conditions this week not looking good actually. Sianz...

Ronald