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25-06-2003, 05:45 PM
Gents...
I was fishing happily at me favourite spot on the Peed River this very arvo (note the use of proper Amphibian term for afternoon, there ;D), whistling 'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life', 'cause the fish were pointing at me and laughing as usual.
Suddenly... nothing happened, but it happened suddenly. After that, I noticed lots of activity in the water - bow waves, things like that. A few minutes later, fish began jumping... lots of fish. I'm assuming these were mullet until someone tells me different... round, torpedo shaped fish, dark strip on the top, silvery sides, fond of aerobatics. These sound like mullet to you?
Anyway, these were flippin' big (I estimate well over 30cm) and there were thousands of them, close into shore on the shallows. I couldn't get them interested in eating anything I could chuck out, but then, that ain't unusual ::). I read somewhere that the mullet are about to run. Is this a massing place where they don't eat or just me usual fishy crapness?
This activity of a late afternoon has been occurring at this spot for at least the last two days. I was thinking that a bloke who knew how to catch these things could clean up there in a big way. As I say, it is me favourite spot, so I'm not going to post the location here in public where any bugger can read it... don't want hordes of tourists trampling all over me area! But if this is of interest to you and you want to go have a bash, send me a message and I'll give you the location :).
BTW, sorry I've been away for a while... long story which I'll post ASAP with an update on me hope-free efforts to murder fish :P
Cheers
R
I was fishing happily at me favourite spot on the Peed River this very arvo (note the use of proper Amphibian term for afternoon, there ;D), whistling 'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life', 'cause the fish were pointing at me and laughing as usual.
Suddenly... nothing happened, but it happened suddenly. After that, I noticed lots of activity in the water - bow waves, things like that. A few minutes later, fish began jumping... lots of fish. I'm assuming these were mullet until someone tells me different... round, torpedo shaped fish, dark strip on the top, silvery sides, fond of aerobatics. These sound like mullet to you?
Anyway, these were flippin' big (I estimate well over 30cm) and there were thousands of them, close into shore on the shallows. I couldn't get them interested in eating anything I could chuck out, but then, that ain't unusual ::). I read somewhere that the mullet are about to run. Is this a massing place where they don't eat or just me usual fishy crapness?
This activity of a late afternoon has been occurring at this spot for at least the last two days. I was thinking that a bloke who knew how to catch these things could clean up there in a big way. As I say, it is me favourite spot, so I'm not going to post the location here in public where any bugger can read it... don't want hordes of tourists trampling all over me area! But if this is of interest to you and you want to go have a bash, send me a message and I'll give you the location :).
BTW, sorry I've been away for a while... long story which I'll post ASAP with an update on me hope-free efforts to murder fish :P
Cheers
R