Fishing in the Heat!

Hi dudes,

Sorry for the looong delay between posts but unfortunately, or fortunately for me, i took 3 weeks off doing what i love best. Thats right folks, 3 weeks of fishing and relaxing. So i thought a good way to kick off 2009 is to look back at some highlights of 2008, the milestones and the lowlights... Then tomorrow i will kick off 2009 with some cutting edge techniques that are donking fish all over the eastern seaboard.

So lets look at 2008's goals;

To catch a jewie on sp over 20kgs
To catch a flatty over 1 meter
To catch a kingy on a popper
To master a new lure
Bag out on whiting with poppers

Pretty standard but lofty goals to help me strive to achieve something. Otherwise i feel if i dont set goals i just go out and fish without any direction.

So how did i go towards these goals..

Jewie - 12kgs. Yep i fell 8kgs short. while i would be disaapointed with that usually the upsides were it was a PB jew on sp's. Also looking back on the year i caught 35 jew on sp's which was also a PB on numbers, including 2 individual days where i caught 3 jew a day.

Flathead - 98cms. Yep you read it correctly. I fell 2 agonising centimeters short. Can u bloody believe it. Mind you i did wait till the last week of 2008 to catch it so up until then i was 18cms short of 1 meter. I got the monster in St. George's Basin on the south coast of NSW. Nice effort.

Kingy - Nil. While this was a goal i only went out once to achieve it. Just so happened that it was the day the kingys were shut down in sydney harbour. Got a heap of follows but no strikes. Im sure this goal will be ticked off before the months out.

Master a new lure - Blades. Done. While it is a little presumptuous to state me mastering it i can confidently say i can catch a variety of fish in a variety of situations on any given fishing trip. Mind you i have used them every day for a month too so the learning curve has been steep but rapid. And let me tell you...these things catch fish ladies and gentleman.

Whiting on poppers - Incomplete. I didnt fish for whiting on poppers as much as i thought i would so far this summer. I have been been pre-occupied with catching that elusive 20kg jewie... but in the few times i have chased whiting on poppers results have been positive. While i didnt bag out this year i get 11 in one session... so 9 short.

All in all it was a productive year. Caught a stack of EP's and bass too. Still need to get my 1 meter flatty and my 20kg jew in 2009.