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Tried Miller Hole last week in Pt Lincoln, weather wasnt that great and fishing wasnt at its normal explosive self!

browny2323 wrote:Tried Miller Hole last week in Pt Lincoln, weather wasnt that great and fishing wasnt at its normal explosive self!

Did you have any bait on your hooks browny?

Trying tomorrow

Main wharf in Lincoln goes nuts at about 5pm when the pilchard boats unload.Anything goes sometimes.Off the cliffs at Redbanks can be very good as long as you have a 30 foot treble gaff to dangle down to retrieve your catch.Dangerous stuff but a great challenge.All team work there.

Well it must be about six weeks since my last visit to West Lakes and hurting my knee.So with great trepidation etc. I headed forth hoping against hope of catching a fish.(sorry sometimes I get dramatic )

So I arrived about 8.30 am suited up in my waders selected a popper/booby fly and away I went.Yep that's right 6 weeks ago I was on a quest to catch as many different fish and something big (I should be so lucky) on a popper .Given its now winter I wasn't hopeful.
First section of beach I fished nothing I did roughly a dozen casts and moved on .
This continued up the beach until I waded out to what could be called a sandbank with seagrass growing out the top of it .
Now there are so many ways I could fish with a popper fly .And thinking the Bream weren't around I decided to keep the fly moving .
And you guessed it second cast in and I'm moving this fly and I stopped it .Not that far in front of me and suddenly its being followed and POP out of the water this tiny fish .Wasn't a Bream shape so perhaps a small whiting ,mullet or Salmon, all I could see was its head shape .
Suddenly I had hope .Sadly Four more casts in this spot didn't produce anything .
So I fished the entire length or stretch of this beach and I decided to walk to the next beach .But with nil returns half way through this beach at 10am I decided I was thirsty so I drank most of my small bottle of water .And decided to go back to beach number 1 and cast my way back to my car.
And by 11 am I had had enough and headed home .
So no fish but there is something out there that will attack a popper fly in winter .
Hope and a sore knee and hope wins out .
Cheers
until next flick
Mickyj

What's your strike rate Micky, do you end up with nothing regularly?

silicone skyline wrote:What's your strike rate Micky, do you end up with nothing regularly?

This time of year is not designed for my fly fishing .Well that's what I have found in the past.BUT after getting one fish to come up to the top gives me hope .
This year was very hard (perhaps the drought not sure)where I was getting fish the last 2 years I was getting zero's more often .
And I started to go to more spots around the lake in hunt of fish.When times are good I have lost large amounts of fish(Bream tail spit annoying and I am trying to learn as I go with different species) but normally end up with 2 or 3 fish a trip .
Not huge numbers but it keeps me going until the following weekend .
And part way through this mornings session I realised the tide was out .
So not huge numbers but what does fall, falls to a fly I have tied which makes every fish worth more to me .
Hell the biggest bonus for the wife is I take a picture and put them back

Yeah, that's cool, I'm one of those people who if they don't catch anything don't go again for a long time. Lol. Where's my heart???

silicone skyline wrote:Yeah, that's cool, I'm one of those people who if they don't catch anything don't go again for a long time. Lol. Where's my heart???

Nah your ok your normal .Me I got addicted pitty I'm not as good as I write .You know the top of the of the rod flying off in to the water I think that happened today .Or the fly hitting me in the head that has happened before more than once or catching my shirt or my back pack or almost hitting a women in the eye.
For me its time to myself getting away from stuff and hopefully catch a fish.Its just that I keep going and going and going .I dont always write when I stuff up .

Nor west winds,may as well shut up shop.

beeroclock wrote:Nor west winds,may as well shut up shop.

Now thats an interesting call .Being a SWFF I am supposed to fear the wind .But I enjoy a little water movement hides the line from the fish .

And my trip today was a lot better than going to work

I gave up fishing long ago.

I caught fish that look so fantastic and threw them back.

What am I doing here...?

Breaking their lips.

Fish with broken lips can't eat...

And die.

Great FISH should be Free.

I buy my salmon at Woolies/Coles/IGC,

Who ever is cheapest.

Fish with broken lips can eat.

Browns, Browns, Browns Browns................

automaticwicky wrote:Browns, Browns, Browns Browns................

More info please,will be on the yorkes for work on Friday.

automaticwicky wrote:Browns, Browns, Browns Browns................

Brown's Well. Popular fishing spot.

silicone skyline wrote:

automaticwicky wrote:Browns, Browns, Browns Browns................

Brown's Well. Popular fishing spot.

Any particular area,pillies for bait and what species do i target?

beeroclock wrote:

silicone skyline wrote:

automaticwicky wrote:Browns, Browns, Browns Browns................

Brown's Well. Popular fishing spot.

Any particular area,pillies for bait and what species do i target?

Perhaps he means for Salmon .

Mickyj wrote:

beeroclock wrote:

silicone skyline wrote:

automaticwicky wrote:Browns, Browns, Browns Browns................

Brown's Well. Popular fishing spot.

Any particular area,pillies for bait and what species do i target?

Perhaps he means for Salmon .

Your not being sarcastic i hope Micky.Should have said any other species.

Anybody been dangling?