The Incredible Hawg

Sigh... nowadays doing really bad on the luring front. Either my stupid Yamatoyo line gets wind knots or it suddenly breaks when it cuts through itself. KNNBCCB super fuctup line! Anyway, the fishies aren't cooperating at all. Few occasions I've suddenly rekindled to use a soft plastic that has been discontinued ages ago and that's the Berkley 2 inch hawg which shapes like a bug. Quite similar to the Ecogear Bugant but I reckon the hawg has better action. Rigged on the watermelon hawg once and tried it around the Le Montage area. Only managed one decent hit and a eye-hook experience once again! But this time round it was a good size Silver Biddy.

Poor bugger got hit quite near the fleshy part of the eye but missed the eye ball though, so not sure if it's ok. But anyway that sums it up pretty much for that session. Can't even recall what other fishes I've got as I haven't blogged for quite sometime.

On another occasion, thought I'll revisit the Cooks after numerous failed expeditions over there. Oh well, pretty much the same story. Hit all my favourite spots without any touches at all. Saw quite a few mullets cruising by and man... some of them are huge! Too bad no bread on me but even so, it'll be hard to keep the bread at the zone as the river is all the time moving. Just as I was about to head back to the car which is parked quite near to a drain which I got my cooks-pb previously, I saw a school of bream just hanging around the drain mouth! It was interesting to be able to see them up close and personal and they weren't even skittish! Yes, for the 1st time I could see though the water in Cooks as surprisingly the quality was clear. As I had the 1/22 Gama rigged on already, thought I'll quickly change to the hawg and walk a distance down away from the drain. Lightly cast the lure as close as possible to the drain mouth and voila, successful! Quickly on the drop I've already felt taps but I wasn't in a hurry as I had wanted to watch the line instead. Twitch... twitch... and the line went taut! Striked and I was on... Zzzz a few times and I could feel some weight. Thought it's a half decent fish and indeed it was, a 30cm.

Quickly release the fish and tried again. Nothing else interested in the lure and that was it. Sneakily walked up to the drain mouth and still a few smallies hanging around but they weren't interested in the lure anymore. Changed to the bloodworm wriggler on lighter head but that was it. Did however manage a 40cm flattie on the wriggler. Called it quits as the flies were swarming me like no tommorrow.

Ronald