Fishing Report November 2020

 

Not too much to report again this month and the most successful team again was Commodore Barry and First Mate Pam who never seem to miss when they take the Rescue vessel up the river. Using mainly yabbies they have had success with bream and whiting and I understand they caught a nice big muddie up in Graham (the Emigrant) Suffolk’s territory in Emigrant Creek. Speaking of muddies now is the time to get amongst them so get out there and have a crack at them. I should have exciting reports on this next month.

 As promised Paul (Ice Blocks) Ison took Anchors Away Johnnie and Stephen (Flash) Fleming up to Casuarina Beach where according to Ice Blocks you can’t miss with the tailor. Apparently apart from a couple of undersized bream and whiting the mission was a total failure. Well done Ice Blocks!

 In the meantime Hammerhead and I were fighting huge barramundi at the Fish Farm in Bli Bli on the Sunshine Coast. We took our wonderful wives up to Mooloolaba to treat them to a couple of day’s luxury and while we were up there we snuck away for a bit of fishing action. It was hard to believe the size of the barramundi in the ponds and while we didn’t manage to land any we had the best time ever fighting them. They kept breaking us off and Hammerhead couldn’t control his emotions as freight train barramundi well over 60cms kept charging away with his line.  If you are looking for a good day of sport fishing you can’t go past this place.

 We’ve had little in the way of reports from Patch’s and his team this month, so he either hasn’t been out much or his efforts have been unproductive.      

Club Meetings

We finally held a very successful barbecue meeting of the Fishing Club on the 9^th November with around 15 members and their partners in attendance. Apparently we broke some of the Covid 19 rules (which have never been explained to us) and caused some angst with Management. Oops! Sorry about that. Anyway now that we have a better appreciation of the rules Gladys has taken the brakes off in NSW and it seems we’re all good to go again.    

 Report on the Sinkers

Now that the blackfish season is over we have taken to fishing the beach and the river for whiting. Apparently the reports (mainly from the Bait Shops) have been that the whiting are thick. We haven’t seen any evidence of that apart from the odd small one from the River. The Ballina Bait and Tackle man told us that we couldn’t miss if we took our (very expensive worms) along the river to the tree behind the Swimming Pool. Anchors Away caught a couple and a small flathead but I wouldn’t say the spot was anything to write home about. Hammerhead certainly wasn’t impressed.

 We still haven’t taken the boats out but we should take to the water with the SS Vaucluse and Tiny Tinny as soon as the winds die down and the weather warms up.

 Tip of the Month

As we heard local reports that the whiting were really on the Sinkers decided to take up the challenge of catching them with poppers. At $8.50 a packet for about three lousy worms we decided it would be much cheaper and more fun to catch them on the poppers.

 Hammerhead in one of his regular visits to BCF, was introduced to the very best,  you beaut , top of the range poppers and despite my protestations forked out the princely sum of $25 of his hard earned to buy one. Anchors Away was similarly encouraged to buy one from Dave’s Bait Shop (this was also supposed to be top of the range and guaranteed to catch whiting) but his only cost $20.

 We headed off to the beach at Flat Rock, me with my yabbies and the boys with their poppers determined to get amongst the whiting. You guessed it, the boys caught zilch with their poppers and I caught four very nice whiting.

 By the way I have since bought five poppers very similar to theirs over the net for $10 bucks.

The Tip

Don’t take too much notice of the bait and tackle stores and don’t expect to get amongst the whiting with poppers.

Happy X-mas to All

Cheers till next month and have a great X-mas and a fantastic New Year.

 Let’s hope we will have lots of very successful fishing outings to report in 2021.

Tight Lines Douggie