Fishing Beats Shopping

After a stressful morning shopping I finally convinced my Dad to drop me down to the now deemed ‘not so secret spot’ at the woolwash but getting there by foot would be difficult after heavy rain, let alone getting there by car, So instead I went to ropes bridge. The tarpon were busting up everywhere chasing and attacking guppies. Whenever a group were busting up on the surface I would try and put a cast there and give it a pop and a long pause, this seems to be the best way to catch tarpon when you cast over the boils they make in the water. Most times however I just cast into the middle of nowhere and gave it small pops and little pauses all the way back which normally ended in a hook up. During the 3 hours down there over 40 tarpon and one Barra were caught, well over 100 hook ups would have happened with most of them tarpon, dropping the hooks or spitting them out at me, and one stage my lip. The gear of choice while fishing for tarpon on this day was nothing flash, just a combo I put together for if im showing others how to lure fish. It consisted of a 1000 size reel, 1-3kg rod and 6 pound braid. Testing this new combo out was fun, and the best part about tarpon fishing is watching the visual display as they climb all over your lures. I took a video of as much as possible but my battery and memory was low so it only goes for a few minutes, Enjoy

Gear For Tarpon:

Rod: Okuma X-factor 1-3kg travel

Reel: Shimano Seinna 1000

Line: 6 pound fused braid, 6 pound mono leader (mono floats which helps surface lures)

Lures: Sebile Splasher 52 in perch, amber fashion and sardine

stay tuned for more fishing adventures

Clayton

Daniel Richardson with his 56.5cm barra, tagged and released
good job I took my lip grips.

Well guys, I went shark fishing on Monday at the river, everything was prepared, I had 6 rigs set up in bags at home, each rig was a paternoster with a dropper loop, on the loop was 30cm wire trice, the wire was nylon coated, then on that was a 3/0 suicide and a 4/0 bait holder. I used everything, live mullet, bony bream, dead mullet, live prawns, dead prawns.  On the bottom was a big enough snapper lead to get it to the bottom of the fast flowing river.  There were some bites but that was about it, except for the run that broke my 20ib dropper loop, which if it was a shark its tail may have hit it.

 I had been there for hours and decided it was time to go home, I did so, but still feeling quite useless I rode to a local lagoon and used a Sebile splasher to find stuff, the only thing hitting it though was perch about 10cm in length but catching 15 of these was better than no sharks.

Shark Gear:

Rod: Berkley drop shot bait caster

Reel: Team Daiwa Viento with 10kg braid

Rig: 20 pound mono paternoster with 20 pound wire on dropper loop, 3/0 and 4/0 hooks connected together, small snapper lead

Bait: mullet, prawns, bony bream



just an avaraged size perch, relly the only fun is
 seeing about 50 of the swarm the lure in the water



Perch Gear:

Rod: 1-3kg strudwik sic stick

Reel: 1000 stradic ci4 with 4 pound braid

Lures: Sebile splasher 52 in perch colour

Stay Tuned for the second attempt,

Clayton