Wattsy
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Fished near the gas works from 15:30 to 20:00. High tide was about ten to five and medium small in size. There was a fairly strong wind from SW.
I started with a three hook paternoster with size 2 hooks and lug. I wouldn't normally bother with lug this time of year but a friend was supposed to join me for a taste of fishing and since there'd be some fishing during daylight I thought I'd maximise our chances.
I didn't think there'd be much action while it was light - I was expecting schoolies and flatties and I tipped the worms with bluey or squid to deter the schoolies. I had a bite within ten minutes and it was a whiting. This was followed by double and triple shots. I was pretty pleased to catch during daylight as it makes me more confident to try more tides during the day.
I wondered if it was the lug that made the difference but they were taking anything including sections of king prawn and half king prawn with head. Later in the night it seemed like plain lug was getting less attention so, so much for that theory.
Most fish were undersized or not worth keeping. Size and type of bait or hook seemed to make no difference to the size of fish caught. I did have one decent chunky whiting a way into the ebb which would have joined club fishcake if it had come in early in the session (on the assumption that there'd be more) but it's back out there terrorizing anything that moves.
The whiting are getting a bit boring now, I'm thinking of trying float fishing for them if the conditions are favorable, just for a bit of variety.
I shouldn't complain though, in twenty years we'll be talking about the good old days when you could catch thirty whiting in a night.
I started with a three hook paternoster with size 2 hooks and lug. I wouldn't normally bother with lug this time of year but a friend was supposed to join me for a taste of fishing and since there'd be some fishing during daylight I thought I'd maximise our chances.
I didn't think there'd be much action while it was light - I was expecting schoolies and flatties and I tipped the worms with bluey or squid to deter the schoolies. I had a bite within ten minutes and it was a whiting. This was followed by double and triple shots. I was pretty pleased to catch during daylight as it makes me more confident to try more tides during the day.
I wondered if it was the lug that made the difference but they were taking anything including sections of king prawn and half king prawn with head. Later in the night it seemed like plain lug was getting less attention so, so much for that theory.
Most fish were undersized or not worth keeping. Size and type of bait or hook seemed to make no difference to the size of fish caught. I did have one decent chunky whiting a way into the ebb which would have joined club fishcake if it had come in early in the session (on the assumption that there'd be more) but it's back out there terrorizing anything that moves.
The whiting are getting a bit boring now, I'm thinking of trying float fishing for them if the conditions are favorable, just for a bit of variety.
I shouldn't complain though, in twenty years we'll be talking about the good old days when you could catch thirty whiting in a night.
, yep when the whiting are hungry they seem to chomp on anything, odd that they shied away from the lug later on, when we fished Friday they left my rag alone favouring fish, finicky fish!
