Due to work and other commitments, I've slackened off a little on the blogging side of things. Fishing on the whole has been quite good, although there have been some quiet days, but the best thing this year has been the weather. A few weeks ago I had a memorable day offshore catching a few mackerel and couple of tuna and raising at least 7 sailfish (hooking a few, jumping a few off and 1 eaten by sharks boatside). Definately a little more homework needs to be done there.......As yet we have hardly had a winter so the water is still fairly warm in the rivers, helping the barra fishing along nicely. Memorable fish lately were include this 63cm fish on fly for Paul Ellis from Tassie and a nice 92cm fish on a livie from a low tide drain. Crikey there has been a lot of 80 - 95cm fish this year!!
The hot topic at the moment is milkies on fly. Pictured here is Ian Cole, fly fishing guide from NZ with his first of 3 landed from 5 hooked and a few more bites on weed flies.
Jason and Lee had a day off just a couple of days ago and managed 1 each from 6 hooked. My last 2 days fly fishing saw more fish on the beaches than ever with blue skies and little wind. We even had tuna in 5 feet of water on the flats, hundreds, no, thousands of blue salmon and some nice queenies and plenty of blue bastards to take a shot at. My guys found it difficult concentrating on a feeding BB when 50 blue salmon would cross their path, followed by a couple of barras or a nice queenie or a school of 100 5 lb tarpon.......
Jason and Lee had a day off just a couple of days ago and managed 1 each from 6 hooked. My last 2 days fly fishing saw more fish on the beaches than ever with blue skies and little wind. We even had tuna in 5 feet of water on the flats, hundreds, no, thousands of blue salmon and some nice queenies and plenty of blue bastards to take a shot at. My guys found it difficult concentrating on a feeding BB when 50 blue salmon would cross their path, followed by a couple of barras or a nice queenie or a school of 100 5 lb tarpon.......
