Softy

Hot water outlet near the entry... bream, st's etc.

I have 4 t-curves now in my opinion best bang for buck rods going around HSVLS19 caught a small bronzie on his inshore 2-4kg curve and handled it a piece of piss cant comment on the Nano's but ya mate wont be disappointed if he getz a curve bud cheers 4THA

I did want to fish on Sunday. I had a plan! But the forecast was for a big blow coming through on Sunday. Forecasted to bring with it some hail & thunder in case just strong winds don't put you off your fishing. Hey and lighting too, which makes me scurry. Me the highest object protruding skywards on the sandflats, complete with a graphite super conductor in my hands and feet immersed in water. And golfers thought it was dangerous! So the obvious change of plan saw me go fishing today (Saturday). My plan was to fish the bottom of the tide. Yes! Chasing goldbars at the bottom of the tide. Sundays low tide was a fairly high for a low tide!!! at 1.09mt. You see you can do rather well on the Yellow Fin whiting around the dodge tide. It is then that water sits on some prime feeding ground for extended periods. And no big run in tide to disperse the fish far and wide. Fish are all compliant and concentrated on the feeding ground waiting for you to hook them! (My theories!)I have previously fished this spot, with soft sand full of nipper holes, on a few occasions. I always picked up some good fish there at the bottom of the tide. So the idea was to find an extended period for the "bottom of the tide" Which would be around a dodge. Well Saturday proved to be the next best thing with a 0.85mt low tide.Yes the plan worked! Caught my bag of 20. Sizes are 30 - 40cm. I only released one fish under 30cmThey took some angling. At the bottom of the tide these fish are not voraciously feeding. They are grazing. A nibble here, a peck there, a sniff here and a poke there. They are trying to sniff & poke out a nipper or two on this patch. When the tide is running they tend to grab most worm baits going past. So today they had to be enticed into a bite. I started with a very light single hook rig with a small ball (00) slipped down the trace to the long shank hook. It was not long before I was missing a lot of bites. The fish were biting tentatively and the size 4 Gamakatsu was not connecting up as usual. I went down to a #6 with better results. The tide is not moving your bait or bringing the fish to you. You need to cast and retrieve with a slow steady constant retrieve. You need to attract the fish's attention by moving your bait and you need to cover a lot of ground to find the fish. Retrieve & recast in another direction/area. Pretty soon you will feel the tap, tap, tap, of a tentative YFW bite. Or rather an inquiry. No not their normal THWACK! when the tide is running. To convert a tap into a tug or bite bait placement on the hook is important. Always have a tail of worm of your hook. YFW do not 'Bite" they suck. And they can suck aggressively. Now some role playing. How can you suck in a strand of spaghetti if all you can mouth is the bottom of the spoon. Have a bit dangling of the end so that you can latch onto it and you will suck the lot off the spoon. Like wise allow the YFW to have a suck of the tail to draw the hook into it's mouth. I use a whole worm on a hook and feed it down to create more tail as it is bitten off.The bigger fish are attracted to these feeding spots in these conditions. I lost a few good fish today. Mainly pulled hooks as they are biting tentatively and are mainly lip hooked. An occasional bust off. Big YFW are incredibly powerful fish for their size. In very shallow water they can easily bust a weak trace that does not have any give in it. I did manage a couple at the 40cm "Goldbar Standard"I will be back for those biguns! possibly with some trout hooks and an altered rig. Just to make sure they get swallowed and properly hooked!Cheers, Des

Hey fella great intro you have done there . It might pay to shorten it down a tad tho only because i have noticed that when you looking through videos that if it goes to long at the start it takes more away from what you are trying to deliver .

Noting a few recent posts enquiring after Yellow Fin Whiting, I thought I would put up some general info regarding a species I have obsessed over for a while, along with a part log for this winter so far.Yellow Fin Whiting are available all year round.There are independent resident populations in the St Vincent Gulf, Spencer Gulf and in WA from Albany through to Shark Bay.The is no migration between populations.Yellow Fin Whiting follow the COLD WATER. At various times of the year you will find them in the part of the gulf that have their natural habitat, but were the water is COLDEST. So I track them all year round, up and down the gulf following the water temperature.By the start of April they would have disappeared from the Adelaide beaches and moved north. This catch was at the end of April in a "middle" part of the gulf. Flathead are a nice by catch, but disappear along with the baitfish when the water gets too cold. However Yellow Fin whiting are still found in the cool water shallows. I manage regular catches through May and June. But it is the Bloodworm runs that really concentrate their numbers into the shallows. And it is then that the better size fish are more abundant. This catch was in the middle of the July bloodworm run.Another bag at the end of JulyThis bag in the middle of the August Bloodworm runAnd I recently managed to find a day with light winds! Which resulted in this bag.Now it is not just us recreational fishers that get stuck into the Yellow Fin Whiting in winter. The graph below from a study in 2000 shows the large majority of the professional catch taken in winter months.Cheers Des

The wings are awesome in a smoker!

I have been having some great sessions on St's and hard body lures of late but none compare to last weekend when I took my girl for a fish. Not only did she out fish me and my brother inlaw but on more than one occasion she got two fish on the one lure. Yep a fish on both trebles. Ok I realize st's will attack anything when in a frenzy but the look on her face when she pulled them up is perfect.

Hopefully i'll be over there mid June!!

SOME of us are still young

Beer!!!

Well i recon its a great night so I am heading out......not being one to follow the crowd dodge or no dodge.....just go to decide where now...??

Nice work!!Not only can he weld, but a bloody top bloke too!!

Nice work!!Not only can he weld, but a bloody top bloke too!!

Got out today... :pinch: Woke up this morning and was in the mood to throw some lures around... so before i could get distracted or loose motivation, had a shower tied some new leaders on and off i went. Headed down the the usual spot in the port at Moonta Rd.. got a couple of ST's on an Atomic Hardz then it wen't quiet so changed over to a Squidgy Flick Bait and it was an ST a cast untill one cast the bow in the line from the wind when casting caused the line to get caught up on the fence and yeeeeep TWANG! So after that i tied a new leader in and jumped in the car to find another spot out of the wind. Couple more St's here and the smallest Bream i have ever caught Stayed there for abit then went for a recky run around Pelican point for a look. after all that typing... not really much to report, but it was good to get out and catch a few fish. Good to see i still have the technique for the artificial's down pat.

Got out today... :pinch: Woke up this morning and was in the mood to throw some lures around... so before i could get distracted or loose motivation, had a shower tied some new leaders on and off i went. Headed down the the usual spot in the port at Moonta Rd.. got a couple of ST's on an Atomic Hardz then it wen't quiet so changed over to a Squidgy Flick Bait and it was an ST a cast untill one cast the bow in the line from the wind when casting caused the line to get caught up on the fence and yeeeeep TWANG! So after that i tied a new leader in and jumped in the car to find another spot out of the wind. Couple more St's here and the smallest Bream i have ever caught Stayed there for abit then went for a recky run around Pelican point for a look. after all that typing... not really much to report, but it was good to get out and catch a few fish. Good to see i still have the technique for the artificial's down pat.

Got out today... :pinch: Woke up this morning and was in the mood to throw some lures around... so before i could get distracted or loose motivation, had a shower tied some new leaders on and off i went. Headed down the the usual spot in the port at Moonta Rd.. got a couple of ST's on an Atomic Hardz then it wen't quiet so changed over to a Squidgy Flick Bait and it was an ST a cast untill one cast the bow in the line from the wind when casting caused the line to get caught up on the fence and yeeeeep TWANG! So after that i tied a new leader in and jumped in the car to find another spot out of the wind. Couple more St's here and the smallest Bream i have ever caught Stayed there for abit then went for a recky run around Pelican point for a look. after all that typing... not really much to report, but it was good to get out and catch a few fish. Good to see i still have the technique for the artificial's down pat.

Holy thread revival!!

My 51cm 1.71kg rainbow trout from a SAFWAA dam... Jumping clear of the water.. big runs and me shitting myself a few times i thought i was going to lose it... but got it landed eventually.

Just come across this article... Hopefully they will follow suit down south and do something about O'sully boat ramp too....Click Me

Just come across this article... Hopefully they will follow suit down south and do something about O'sully boat ramp too....Click Me

Just come across this article... Hopefully they will follow suit down south and do something about O'sully boat ramp too....Click Me

Just come across this article... Hopefully they will follow suit down south and do something about O'sully boat ramp too....Click Me