I could see my heartbeat reflected in each squirt of arterial blood that was gushing from my leg. At the time I pondered the fact that today wasn’t really supposed to be a fishing trip – more a cultural excursion – and then my thoughts went to the problem at hand. I had a treble buried through my shorts and…
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Advanced Mullet fishing techniques ;)
We (Hamish and Lee) are going to start a series on posts on catching bread and butter species for beginners, with hopefully enough know how to also be useful for more experienced fishermen. So to start things off we are going to begin with the most humble of estuary species. The Mullet. I’m sure most fishermen can remember cutting their teeth on this…
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…