Fishing, my ongoing passion
My most recent fishing project has been the development of a technique that I call Micro Baiting with Vibes. This is turning out to be an exciting type of fishing and I will detail that in a future post.
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Garmin Panoptics / Live scope – Perspective mode
The is the best ever (and least expensive) upgrade that I have made to my Garmin Panoptics set up.
Shrek – Chatto’s viva
It seems that these days the term ‘VIVA’ has been given to the very popular and successful colour combination of light green or chartreuse and black.
Gladstone – Coastal reefs, rocks and other structure
[map state=”QLD”] Mast head and other off shore reefs Rundle Island (top of Curtis Island) Facing island reefs including Perl Rocks and Sable Chief Jenny Lind and Seal rocks Channel markers Gear options: 1) General fishing: 15/50 with 30lb braid, 50 flouro and a #4 fastatch clip. This can fish for “big fish” (particularly, barra … Read more
Bream
Bream are a species that grow slowly. By the time they reach the minimum legal size they are typically around 5 or 6 years old. So please consider catch and release.
Flathead
Flathead are definitely one of the easier species of estuary fish to catch on fly. They will respond to a wide range of traditional and specialist flies and you will catch them as a by catch when your fishing small flies (from a flathead’s perspective) to species such as bream and whiting and relatively big flies (from a flathead’s perspective) even when fishing for barra.
Check list – emergency kit
I keep my emergency kit in a small orange zip lock bag. It does have just enough first aid items to get by but most of the content are items you may need in an emergency.
Fishing season reminders – NSW
Hopefully this small blog post will keep you in touch with the dates for fishing seasons in NSW for popular species such as bass, trout and cod.
Rule of twelfths
The rule of 12ths … an easy way to know the approximate water depth at intervals of roughly 1 hour as the tide rises or falls.
Make a soft plastic … catch a barra
These 5 barra above are all over a meter and have been caught in Lake Awoonga over the last 5 weeks on soft plastics that I rigged up in my own very personal way on soft plastics I poured myself in moulds for top pour soft plastics that I finessed and made myself.