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After a hearty dinner at Hogs Breath with friends, Craig had promised to take me to his secret jewie spot. We spent well over an hour collecting live prawns and poddy mullet for bait, and fished a deep hole in the river (which the sounder reckoned was full of big fish) for several hours without losing a bait. Still enjoyable though and I’m starting to realize why jewies are such a prized fish.
We had tentatively arranged to meet up with mate Brenton for a kayak fish in the Clyde River on Sunday, but after fishing very late the night before both Craig and I slept through our alarms, and arrived at the launch site just as Brenton was packing up after having already been out! We will be more punctual next time!
I was determined to catch a bream on a blade, so armed with some new purchases and some golden tips from Craig I commenced casting and jigging around the bridge at Nelligen, and almost immediately came up tight on a nice bream that went 26cm to the fork. An encouraging start, but that was pretty much all the interest we got with the blades, so switched over to fishing plastics deep. Craig showed his flounder catching prowess with two handsome specimens.
As soon as we found some shallower water we changed tactics again, Craig fished a much lighter jighead with wrigglers, and I changed to suspending minnows jerked over the weed beds. Despite the dirty water from the previous day’s rain, the bream were quite willing with a couple of nice ones landed, many between 20-24cm.
I was smoked by a big fish early on which grabbed the minnow on the pause, gave a few head shakes, then headed for the mangroves at warp speed. The hooks pulled just before he reached them, saving me a lost lure, and wondering what might have been. I was stoked to catch a nice little EP soon after that, and then an aggressive gar just before we pulled the pin.
Although the day way grey and drizzly for the main part, it was great to have a fun and relaxing session, and catch a few nice fish to boot
