Fished today with Scott, Kerry and Wal from South Australia. The day started with a bang after Scott boated a 72cm barra only to follow it up with a superb 108cm girl. The fish took a live scat fished on the bottom at Spot 6 In The Little Howard River and put up a epic battle before coming to the net. From there on the day was hard work with fish frustrating us by continually dropping the baits
Fished the low tide today with the Davies family from Exmouth, dad Phill, 10 year old Daniel and eight year old Beau. The day was one to remember, after gathering some cracking mullet we headed up the Little Howard to try our luck. the first spot proved fruitless but after about half an hour at the next spot all hell broke loose when Phill hooked into a solid fish that ran around every snag it could find. After clearing the boys lines and a bit of fancy boat work Phill guided a fat 106cm girl to the net. After plenty of photos she was released swimming away strongly. Once the tide dropped we headed to the hole I had chosen to sit out the low. The first couple of hours was slow, fishing our baits off floats but once the tide slowed enough we positioned the boat over near the sand bar and fished our baits on the bottom. The results were almost instant with hook up after hook up but the fish were winning every battle, breaking the boys of in the snags. Daniel made comment to me that there must be plenty of Finger Mark ( Goldies ) in here and I promptly replied no we dont get them here much, so you can guess what happened, he pulled in a lovely pan sized Goldie just to make me look bad. Finally Phill got a nice 77cm barra too the boat and broke the drought and from then on they managed to get four more barra to the boat only stopping because we couldnt get enough
Only fished twice this week and the barra are about. Fished the high tide with mate Hippy on tuesday and bagged five fish by 9.30 am and stopped fishing. The fish were all around the 65cm range and were taking lures and baits. Yesterday I fished with three anglers from NSW and despite the neap tides we still managed to boat three keepers, the biggest being 70cm. Added to that 11 crabs and the crew had a good Territory feed.
You just gotta love barra fishing in the build up. The fish are all big, fit, chrome plated and put up a great fight. Although the build up doesnt start officially until next month but the build up barra are on the chew. Ive had a busy week this week doing five tours and the fish have been playing the game. We have been getting quality fish on both the high and low tides but a bit of movement is needed on the high tide. Crabs have been patchy but a feed can alway
Fished the low tide yesterday in the Little howard with Mark and Paul Avery. I am pleased to say it was the beast days fishing we have had in a while. It looks like the build up barra are just starting to play the game with some solid fish about. We landed five barra and a threadfin salmon. the biggest fish we landed was 79cm and Paul was gill raked by a 90cm plus fish. We missed a lot of fish dropping seven. They were biting right through the day taking live bait & lures. Crabs are a liitle patchy at the moment but there is always a feed to be had.
The past month has been tough to get fish with the water being very cold and business being super slow. Went for a fish yesterday with my wife Narelle and friend Lorna. To my suprise the water has warmed up significantly being 28.5 degrees and there was a fair bit of bait around for the first time in a while. Despite the neap tides we managed to catch a couple of barra and lost a few as well. Lorna who has been in the territory for over 20 years finaly caught her first barra a nice 67cm fish. So with a bit more movement in tides coming, good water temp and some bait in the system I am anticipating the fishing will start to pick up from here on.
Wlecome to our new website. Due to being treated like a second class citerzen by our previous web host company we decided to build a new site. In a way it is a good thing because now we have a much bigger and more user friendly site. Any feed back on the site is welcome. To all of you that look at my sight plaese delete the old web address from you browser and replace it with www.shoalbaysportfishing
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