keen_as_mustard
30-10-2005, 12:15 AM
Decided to try a few new techniques and locations today, and invited a workmate along. He had tried using soft plastics a couple of times with no success so I was determined to change that.
We jigged big plastics in the seaway for no result, and also tried outside (my mate had seen schools of birds working the bait earlier in the week) for tailor but that was a dud too!
We ended up back in the Broadwater flicking sp's for flatties. We get to the first spot, a channel beside a weed bed, and I give him a quick lesson. First cast and I put the plastic just off the edge of the weed. Then I show him the jigging technique I use - "you give it a couple of flicks like this...flick, flick...I'm on!" Second jig and I hook up on a 46cm flattie. "It's that easy I say!".
As you can imagine my mate is thinking this plastics fishing is pretty easy after seeing that. It takes him an hour or so to get his technique sorted, then he hooks one. First fish on an sp and it's a 56cm flattie - he is stoked.
Not long after that the northerlies picked up and the fishing got tough. But he sticks at it and hooks another one - this time a 64cm flattie. Biggest fish for the day - always the way when you take a beginner! Being a good bloke he let it go to fight another day.
Overall we ended up with 6 in the boat for a few hours fishing - 64cm, 56cm, 54cm, couple of 40cm+ and a 35cm.
We jigged big plastics in the seaway for no result, and also tried outside (my mate had seen schools of birds working the bait earlier in the week) for tailor but that was a dud too!
We ended up back in the Broadwater flicking sp's for flatties. We get to the first spot, a channel beside a weed bed, and I give him a quick lesson. First cast and I put the plastic just off the edge of the weed. Then I show him the jigging technique I use - "you give it a couple of flicks like this...flick, flick...I'm on!" Second jig and I hook up on a 46cm flattie. "It's that easy I say!".
As you can imagine my mate is thinking this plastics fishing is pretty easy after seeing that. It takes him an hour or so to get his technique sorted, then he hooks one. First fish on an sp and it's a 56cm flattie - he is stoked.
Not long after that the northerlies picked up and the fishing got tough. But he sticks at it and hooks another one - this time a 64cm flattie. Biggest fish for the day - always the way when you take a beginner! Being a good bloke he let it go to fight another day.
Overall we ended up with 6 in the boat for a few hours fishing - 64cm, 56cm, 54cm, couple of 40cm+ and a 35cm.