tonyb

I do a bit of float fishing with a stick float trotting a single maggot on a size 14 fine wire hook and a English style float rod in the Onka. 

 

Longer is better for trotting out in the current, 12ft to 14ft rods are not too long and they only weigh a few ounces.

 

These rods are not easy to find tho' a certain Tackle Dealer down at Victor Harbor was brought up fishing with them in his Homeland.

 and would be sure to help out?

 

Float rods are very forgiving with their "through actions" and given time, you will be able to land some very heavy fish with a correct drag setting and some patience.

 

A flurocarbon leader as light as one kilo makes this a most enjoyable way to spend time at the water side and look out if a hefty bream or soapy takes a shine to your gent.

 

A handful of shop bought fine breadcrumbs with a trickle of gents as ground bait will have the fish feeding well within minutes of setting up.

 

Mullet, bream, Mullys, Silver whiting, Yellowfin whiting, KG Whiting, flathead, salmon trout, tommies and Gar are all suckers for this outfit and I'll try and find a few piccies to post to back up what I've just written?

I do a bit of float fishing with a stick float trotting a single maggot on a size 14 fine wire hook and a English style float rod in the Onka. 

Longer is better for trotting out in the current, 12ft to 14ft rods are not too long and they only weigh a few ounces.

These rods are not easy to find tho' a certain Tackle Dealer down at Victor Harbor was brought up fishing with them in his Homeland.

 and would be sure to help out?

Float rods are very forgiving with their "through actions" and given time, you will be able to land some very heavy fish with a correct drag setting and some patience.

A flurocarbon leader as light as one kilo makes this a most enjoyable way to spend time at the water side and look out if a hefty bream or soapy takes a shine to your gent.

A handful of shop bought fine breadcrumbs with a trickle of gents as ground bait will have the fish feeding well within minutes of setting up.

Mullet, bream, Mullys, Silver whiting, Yellowfin whiting, KG Whiting, flathead, salmon trout, tommies and Gar are all suckers for this outfit and I'll try and find a few piccies to post to back up what I've just written?

Any pics? we LUUURRRRV pics 

Nearly there, boat gets its arse wet tomozza up at Tauwitcherie    

Tagged SA king recaptured at Coffs

Hi Des,

I'm a bit out of my comfort zone as a dyed in the wool freshie fisho but I was pointed in your direction (the YFW whisperer) by more than one angler as I've taken a fancy to catch YFW along the metro coast this season.

I have caught YFW on poppers but only as by catch when bait fishing for other surf fish.

I was fascinated to read how you changed your rig to a two hook set-up which is identical to that advocated by Andre Georgescu in his Australian Bream Fishing video series to catch his bream. (the videos' if you haven't come across them are all shot locally in the Pat and the Onka among other places) I have used Andre's rig to catch bream with bait (I use white bait, froggies or blue bait) but the lure of luring has taken me away from bait fishing as much as I used to.

Cheers, tonyb

So what's the hot tips?

 

Live bait? Mullet or tommies?

TRUMPETERS ROCK     

Doesn't help when you have things like the 'This week’s fishing report, brought to you by the team at Tackle World Adelaide Metro.' for the 17th October reporting 'Bream continue to be caught in the upper reaches of the Onkaparinga River along with small to legal size school Mulloway'

 

How far exactly are the 'upper reaches of the Onkaparinga River'?

 

You think a local tackle store would include something about the closed season wouldn't you?

South Road Bridge upstream is "bandit country" after October the first     

Wow! technological advances bring some good ideas to improve casting and here's the evidence.

My pride and joy was and still is, my good old ABU 9000C with it's lifetime Guarantee still valid 50 years down the track I believe.

First thing I did was to remove the levelwind and also all 4 of the centrifugal brake blocks. Regular lubing with the finest machine oil I could find was a given for this classic reel. I remember when they were first introduced to the Brit fishing scene they were installed with a plastic spool. We Geordies soon had them rethinking the design as the big cod we used to haul up which kicked the lower of the two reel ratios in, was enough to snap the spools in two pieces on the spindles!! Aluminium spools are standard now with these reels. It is a great shame that the Swedish craftsmanship of ABU Svangsta is now farmed out to mass producing nations with the advantage of lower costs but not as good build quality?

Cheers, tonyb.

Awesome session boys and awesome to see the youngsters out there and doing

it instead of vegging out in front of the electronics

Got as good as a stick of dynamite with those ZMans fellas 

Great pics as well and I dare bet there's not too many peeps viewing this that have seen one of those "jumpers" out of the water  

Let's know what it  tasted like mate? 

Had a giggle about your mention of practice casting in open paddocks as this was exactly what I was doing one day (while living in the UK) when a couple of cheeky young kids came by and watched me for a while then one of them asked what I was fishing for as the grasshoppers don't grow very big in this particular field?

Tis a bugga casting in soft ground as you sometimes found you had to walk near 200 yards each time to dig your 4oz to 6oz aerodyne sinker out of the ground!!

Yes Indeed SB, and the first thing we'd do would be too take off the level winds from our Abu Overheads (we call them "Multipliers" in the UK) and get the "educated thumb" too such refinement that night or day rain or shine it would be second nature and bird's nests became a very rare occurrence.

I had a mate who did a bit of tournament work who used to cast out and actually back off the spindle end thumbscrews as the cast was going out and all without thumbing the reel at all. Not for the faint hearted nor the inexperienced!

I have my first ABU 9000C reel still and can punch 170 yards out all day long with just a bare bones rig ie no bait.

I brought a 14 ft "Leslie Moncrieff" rod over to Aussie which is also around 50 years old now but my son eyeballed it gathering dust in the shed and it's now his pride and joy.

Happy days, tho' the need for these fast tapered, aircraft grade aluminium butts and graphite tips are not an option for Aussie fishing, neither is the need to be able to cast a minimum 100 yards with bait which was a norm in the UK.

http://lesliemoncrieff.wordpress.com/

Makes me giggle when I think about my mates in the UK who fish 90lb braid off the beaches and if they get any wind knots or tangles they just wrap one end of the line around the boot and the other end around the arm and rip the knots straight out! (better if the line is wet   )

We used 4 oz to 6 oz sinkers with 60lb mono shock leaders for "Pendulum" casting, normally with 15 to 20lb main line.

Fairly easy to get extreme distances even with large baits with this method   

PS Pendulum casting was rightly banned on competition days off the beaches for obvious reasons     

PPS Check out where the cameraman is standing in this video!!!!          

Just really sad that this bad behavior can be seen right through this bream closed season with PIRSA not having the resources to police it and people who care about the Fishery not game enough to take on some of these belligerents who think that Fishery rules don't apply to them 

http://www.fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/2484

Problem for the fishos is we don't pay anything to fish there.

Residents of WL pay rates, and councils have always been driven by dollars.

Those ratepayers have a right to vote in council elections, fishos don't.

All because of a few selfish mongrels who gave us decent fishos a bad rep.

Always has it been so mate 

A small percentage stuffs it up every time   

Unfortunately bad news always travels better than good news and the

Management of the fisheries have to address these concerns 

Good to see that we more concerned anglers are having a go to try and keep the playing field level

Hi All,

From the SAFWAA Forum it appears the closure is about the fishos who use the place at night

Anyone game to ring Dani for clarification?

'Twould be devastating for our recreational fishing community if yet another freedom

of access was removed at a Councillor's pen stroke     

I once hit a shoal of smallish redfin about 6" long and caught three triple hook-ups one after the other on a team of three size 12 gold bead headed pheasant tailed nymphs, whoo hoo, never repeated that again but that fly is a firm favourite tho' as said the smaller redfin have a strong diet of aquatic larvae in the early stages of their growth and will tackle most anything I have seen some corker redfin landed on 4" or 5" fluro orange marabou streamer flies fished in tandem which shows that redfin are not fussy critturs at all

Caught a very lucky yabby that was still alive and kicking in a big redfin.Why was it lucky? It was a very hot day so I gutted the reddy, which is not my normal practice and the yabby won its freedom

I can't agree with you this time Cal, for far too long we have taken this crap, time to stand up for our rights although it is a painfully long and drawn out process. As said, we do have Tea Tree Gully Council's agreement even tho' you are technically only supposed to fish here with a Council permit (see the link I posted on this page)And TB, unfortunately, because we have traditionally fished here for many years does not in any way make it legal mate? Public Liability are two of the worst words in any recreational activity nowadays and don't the Lawyers luv it?

Tony' date='When was wynn vale dam ever closed to rec fishing?TB[/quote']Hi TB,Every single Council and Government agency in the entire State, including DEWNR and SA Water have maintained a steadfast denial of any official FRESHWATER recreational fishing in any of their waters since their inception, primarily because of Public Liability matters, some of them as serious as the woman who was found drowned in Thorndon Park and some reasons as trivial as a fear of water resources being poisoned.RFSA (with my help) has compiled a list of nearly 50 possible recreational fishing waters in the State and to only crack the door open slightly, after 3 years of continuous effort, on just one local Council, gives you a rough idea how desperate our State is to legally enjoy these waters, owned by the people by Birthright, but denied access to by an un-educated Government? Bring on the Brave New World that our Interstate neighbors have enjoyed forever!Moreover, RFSA has had a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with SA Water now for over three years to give access to four OFF-LINE Reservoirs one of which is the TOD Reservoir over in Port Lincoln and they are still sitting on a decision!!!Cheers, tonyb.