I visited my parents in Eden this week to drop off their car, which I had borrowed and managed to sneak in a bit of a fish. First up on the menu was fly fishing for Mullet in the little estuary right in the middle of Eden. I started late and only fished for half an hour, till the wind…
Category: Offshore
Eden and Wonboyn Lake fishing report, August 12-14 2011
Day 1 My alarm clock started blaring far too early the morning. I flapped around in the dark to hit snooze and went back to sleep. After this scene repeated four or five times I checked the time to see how long I had before my taxi arrived. “Shit!, 4:55!”. I was awake, out of bed and out the door…
Eden: No winter kingfish, but at least a feed of flathead…
I spent last weekened down in Eden. Given I was mainly just visiting my folks, the fishing to a backseat and I only managed to get out on Sunday, for a relatively relaxed 7 hour session… The target was Kingfish. They are still around and if you can tempt them they are big! So we motored out to Mowarry, found…
Very quick fish in Eden.
I’m in Eden looking after my parents dogs. Haven’t had much time to go fishing, but did manage to get out for a few hours on Saturday. The forecast was for 25-35 knot winds in the morning, so it was a very relaxed start. At about 9 when we realized the winds weren’t going to be that strong, me, dad and a friend of…
Fishing for kingfish in Eden
Well, me and Lee fished Eden on the weekend. It was a quick trip where we primarily focussed on kingfish to the exclusion of all other species and techniques. The fishing on saturday was pretty tough, we got fish but we worked hard for them. Around Greencape the fish were there but patchy with a fair few rats, while at Mowarry when…
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…