Mulloway on the Central Coast

Hi People...

So here it is, the fishing report from the weekend. I dangled the carrot about the mind blowing action we witnesses over the last weekend past and i see no reason why this is likely to stop anytime in the immediate future...

Friday 10th October

I was feeling a little under the weather on friday so i decided the best remedy was a bout of sun. Where better to get vitamin C than on a boat. We hit Brisbane Waters pretty early with the last of the run-in tide. The first half hour produced little but as happens, someone flicked on the switch.

Initially we were hooking undesirables, rock cod, black spot estuary cod, undersize snapper, jackets etc but soon a few tastier fish came over the side of the boat. My mate hit a good 70cm flatty and rightly released the girl to go on her maternal way. Shorty after i had the tel-tale tap tap of a jew. It amazes me every time i catch one on plastix how timid the take is...

Sure enuf an hour later and the tide starting to get into a decent run-out we had 3 jewies in the boat. We also missed 2 other amnd pulled the hooks on a further 2 fish so the tally could have been much higher.

Once the tide became unfishable we retreated to shallow water and hit some table sized flatties before calling it a day. In the end we hooked 12 different species for the day. The best multi-species day we have has so far on plastix. The list included, Jew, Flathead, Snapper, Tailor, Rock Cod, Black Spot Cod, Jackets, Squid, Trumpeter, Flounder, Puffer and bream...Notable captures were 2 70cm flatties and 2 65cm flatties. The jew ranged from 2-5kgs.

Plastix of choice were 6" Atomic Jerk Minnows in either glow white or green watermelon/gold belly. I love these lures and attract tiddlers to monsters. I ran these on 5/8th oz nitro jigheads in depths of 30-100ft of water.

Saturday 11th October

On saturday we visited Brisbane Waters again...and again the jewies were on the bite. We repeated our friday effort and snarred another 3 fish. All fell in 60ft of water. Same lures did the damage again. The atomics are currently my favs but really have been for a long time now.

Other notable captures on sat were an 80cm flatty and a bumper whiting ona 3" stickbait.
The jew ranged from 1-4kgs. Not large but good catches on light gear.