Is this REALLY summer?
Its been like this for nearly the whole of flipping July.
I can only remember one sunny day!! :-(
The Path outside my office was under an inch of water this afternoon, and the sky was a dark angry sickly grey.
NOT very inspiring...
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Mullet on the fly
Total disaster today.
Up late. Bad head. Missed the shop for the maggots.
Got to the fishing mark to discover that despite a good high tide, there wasn't a fish in sight.
Then 4 lads turned up and started yelling at each other and throwing stones in while they drank beer and practised swearing.
I made about half a dozen casts with my fly rod, with floating fake bread, having waded out, and quit when the amount of scum around me became unbearable.
I guess sometimes you just ain't meant to fish.
Still, I sat on the bank, ate my pasty and tried to enjoy the last of the evening sun.
Up late. Bad head. Missed the shop for the maggots.
Got to the fishing mark to discover that despite a good high tide, there wasn't a fish in sight.
Then 4 lads turned up and started yelling at each other and throwing stones in while they drank beer and practised swearing.
I made about half a dozen casts with my fly rod, with floating fake bread, having waded out, and quit when the amount of scum around me became unbearable.
I guess sometimes you just ain't meant to fish.
Still, I sat on the bank, ate my pasty and tried to enjoy the last of the evening sun.
Mullet Spotting 2
I returned to the scene of the mullet spotting with my decent camera. Using it at full telephoto, with polarising filter, I got some cracking piccys of the mullet.
Just standing and watching them for an hour or so certainly is a lesson in observation and makes you really think about your next fishing trip.
(These pics are heavily cropped, and also tweaked regards color and contrast.)
A friend turned up in his canoe, and drifting alongside the weed, the fish hardly moved. You can see here that they arent small ones :-)
Im guessing they are around 3 to maybe 5 lb.
Just standing and watching them for an hour or so certainly is a lesson in observation and makes you really think about your next fishing trip.
(These pics are heavily cropped, and also tweaked regards color and contrast.)
A friend turned up in his canoe, and drifting alongside the weed, the fish hardly moved. You can see here that they arent small ones :-)
Im guessing they are around 3 to maybe 5 lb.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Mullet Spotting
I had a wander down to the creek this evening, as I was in the area.
This time my time wasn't wasted. I spotted some cracking mullet, about 6 to 8 feet from the waters edge, in only 12 to 18 inches of water.
There was about ten in the shoal, and averaging about 3 to 4lb as far I could tell.
I was about 40 feet above them on the road, but my camera phone did me proud, and with a lot of tweaking in Photoshop, you can just about make out two of them right in the middle of this image, appearing as grey fishy backs an inch or two under the surface in a clear patch in the weed. They seemed to love hanging about right on the edge of the weed, or in the little clear pockets in between.
Ill be going back at the end of the week (if I can) to try for them on the Fly :-)
This time my time wasn't wasted. I spotted some cracking mullet, about 6 to 8 feet from the waters edge, in only 12 to 18 inches of water.
There was about ten in the shoal, and averaging about 3 to 4lb as far I could tell.
I was about 40 feet above them on the road, but my camera phone did me proud, and with a lot of tweaking in Photoshop, you can just about make out two of them right in the middle of this image, appearing as grey fishy backs an inch or two under the surface in a clear patch in the weed. They seemed to love hanging about right on the edge of the weed, or in the little clear pockets in between.
Ill be going back at the end of the week (if I can) to try for them on the Fly :-)
Monday, July 07, 2008
Unseasonal Flounder
Mike and I shot down to the pontoon on our local estuary last weekend.
We only intended to have a potter about for an hour or two seeing if there were bass or frankly anything around.
We fished simple running rigs with small ragworm.
Thing is, I ended up catching two small flounder. Its July, what the hell are flounder doing up in the estuary ?
We only intended to have a potter about for an hour or two seeing if there were bass or frankly anything around.
We fished simple running rigs with small ragworm.
Thing is, I ended up catching two small flounder. Its July, what the hell are flounder doing up in the estuary ?
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