Tuesday, February 24, 2009

The Hawkesbury 21st/ 22nd Feb

Hi peoples,

Just a quick report from the wwekend. Hit the hawkesbury both days in what turned out to be a mixed bag for fish as well as weather. Left bayview ramp in pittwater at half 5 to hit a few jewie ledges we know. havent pulled a jew in the hawkesbury since nov on sp's so it was time time to make amends.

Prospected around to no success so we hit a few flatty grounds to brake up the monotony. Hit some good fish and tried a few new spots. My mate fially snared a jewie that preceeded to bust him off. Later i found out he had 6lb leader. Bummer.

Came back into pittwater and flicked the shallow flats along the back of palm beach. I hooked a nice 67cm lizard that had a male flatty about 35cms in tow. He was obviously pissed off his maiden was being ripped from his bed.

Lastly we hit scotland island with blades as the leatheries were decimating our stocks. Got another 67cm lizard too. Next cast i had the mother of all flattys on. I have caught a 98cm fish but this felt, dare i say it, bigger!!!! It hit a 5cm blade and just hugged the bottom and when i gave it some stick it hit the afterburners and snapped me off. We ended up catching over 25 flattys, a few bream, a few pike and few leatheries.

On sunday we tried the same game plan. It was apparent that the day was going to be slower. We hit all the same spots and tried all the same techniques but only caught 6 flatties and 2 kilo plus bream... I did land a nice 73cm lizard though. That was pretty fun.

So a mixed bag of luck..but thats fishing.