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| Ando | May 30 2014, 08:15 PM Post #1 |
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CPBA Sportfishing Group had a return bout down at Bluff in early April just gone - been busy fishing elsewhere since then so haven't had a chance to report in. Stayed at the Chalets, crikey they're good, clean, tidy, comfy, well kitted out, suit our needs perfectly when travelling down from metro for a weekend, Pete and Caroline so easy to get along with. Weather was great, wind over our back and not strong for the full weekend, turned southerly on the last day to give us a tail-breeze for the run home, handy. Swell was only average - mild for the South Coast, water was good 'n clean. Satý was stacks of herring - big bull herring amongst ém, quite a few skippy up to easily a kilo, the odd flathead - never get them in numbers anyway, a couple of stray north west blowies - they didn't handle our fugu-release technique terribly well. A few big salmon but more small fish (aka 'salmon trout') from herring size to a kilo or so, great sport on the herring gear and rattly scrappers on the bigger rods. No pattern to the big fish, they turned up in ones and at random. We fished as far around as the rocks, the table-top reefs and a big long guttery hole about halfway along toward the reefs. Didn't fish the night, tide was way down, we were cold, camp was warm, breeze came up a little from the E/NE, nothing significant just enough to convince us softies to stay at camp. Sunday we fished the same big hole almost exclusively, same sort of results as Satý but with 10x more herring thrown in, they were turning the waves silver / grey at times. Again, skippy, small salmon, the odd fugu and some stray bigger salmon is all. Was some big black masses of fish on the outer break moving around and promising - but never delivering - to come into the beach but no go, dunno if they were mulies or salmon, we liked to think they were salmon, always the optimists. Headed back to camp for a big lunch just after high-tide, we're late getting back to the beach for the arvo' session on the falling tide. Salmon hit the beach big time in the late arvo', big fish, multiple rods going off simultaneously, lots landed and released, bunch more hooked and lost, we kept maybe 1/2-dozen between the 9 of us, no break-offs that I can recall though which is good. Action stayed hot until it got dark, we packed up and made for camp. Didn't fish the Monday, had enough the previous arvo', made for a lazy brekky cook up, clean up and head off. Was a bit of traffic on the beach but not that much really. Will be back again next season. Ando |
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