I’ve been thinking about how to catch those annoying garfish and mullet that so often follow poppers but rarely have a go. Next time I’m out on the flats, I’m going to try tying a small fly on a short length of light line behind the popper. The theory is that the fish will be attracted to the commotion, and…
Month: February 2011
Trout at the Cascades
After beating my way through yet another tea tree, sinking my foot into yet another pool of mud and grass and swatting yet another mozzie away from my face, I finally came to the small opening through which, if I was careful, I could get a cast into the water. I unhooked the green celta from the rod guide and…
Tenkara- the experiments begin
So, my Tenkara rod has finally arrived from the states… Tenkara is a style traditional japanese fly fishing… It involves using a long flexible rod 11-14ft. Traditionally these were bamboo, nowadays long graphite telescopic poles. It is a fixed line technique, your fly line is connected directly to the end of the rod via the lillan, a piece of string…
Wallaga weekend
It was a weekend of contrasts, in terms of the fishing, but I guess that’s often the case. It’s an important lesson too: out of every five sessions, you might have one good one. What many people don’t seem to realise is that you can quickly churn through the dud ones. This is essentially what I did this weekend. Here I…
Live blogging Eden… March 4-6th
Well our next serious trip is planned for early March… The plan will be to chase Kingfish off Mowarry and Greencape, as well as hitting up the local estuaries… My goals for the trip are to catch mullet on bread flies using a tenkara fly outfit and to crack the metre mark on the kings, preferably on a light plastics…
Kingfish basics
Kingfish basics It all started one day when keen fisho Hamish Webb and I decided to make the bumpy ride out to the spectacular North Head, at the northern end of Twofold Bay, near Eden, to see if we could muster up a few salmon off the rocks. After disembarking from the dusty car, we made the short walk down…
Techniques for dusky flathead
It had been a long morning. Only a few small touches in two hours’ fishing. I was feeling beaten and attributed the tentative taps to pickers: probably leatherjackets and toadies. Hoping they might be bream, and resigning myself to the fact my flathead session had failed, I decided to try a vibe. I had been targeting flatties, but with no…
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Welcome to Fishing in South East Australia… A blog about our fishing exploits on the South Coast of NSW and beyond… Cheers Hamish and Lee