the recent exploration

My friend and I hiked around a saltwater lake ( the causeway for those who know it). We were equipped with a bag full of lures and various other things, such as wallets and phones and chips, can’t forget them. My friend was using and okuma graphite travel and I had a Rovex airstrike bc with a Rovex oberon bc reel. The first fish caught was a ‘long tom’ just off the base bridge on a silver, gold and black popper. It was caught by my mate by using a normal blooping retrieve. With very limited success we decided to hike around the outside waters casting out yabby soft plastics as we went along the mangrove banks. Every now and then we switched to different lures like suspending, shallow diving, x-raps and other vibrant coloured minnows. More luck was achieved when a 'bloody ripper' Tassie Devil. When it was quickly retrieved and a barracuda or another high speed predator smashed it and literally disabled the lure before I could even hook it. We kept on moving around the inside of the lake to more pristine waters but mainly stuck to the shallow clear waters in fear of stone fish. with the sun blazing on our backs no fish were out to play so we hiked back to the beach side of the lake on the other side of the 'bridge' where it was a slow flowing low tide. We  put on the yabby soft plastics and used a double twitch retrieve, letting them sink between the twitches. This way they aggressively dart up through the water columns then flutter down to the bottom. This worked like magic hooking up to heaps of pike and the occasional flathead. I would have to say that pike were the most fun to catch because of they’re large size and fast predatory skills.

Thanks to all who read my first blog and i will be updating it at least weekly with fishing tips and stories and other adventures.