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Straddy 25th & 26th Sept - 48 Hour Fishing Bender

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Well here is the last installment of my week at Straddy!

On the last weekend I was there, the 25th and 26th of September Do$tylz joined for what could only be described as 48 hours of fishing madness. Tanya was heading back to the mainland to attend a hens party so I literally had a total and complete leave pass to fish like crazy.

On arrival, Do$tylz also informed me he had brought over a 4 Lox rods (2 x 1-3KG and 2 x 2-5KG) so we could product test all wekeend. As I was fishing with a ghetto fixed Starlo stick at the time, I was delighted by this news.

Ill try to get all of this in order so bare with me...

Session 1: Headed to Dunwich at Dawn on Saturday hoping to find some pre dawn Squire and Surface action. As always I managed an easy half dozen squire on plastics before the shy lightened up. These were all rat fish in the 20's but I will keep trying this location and technique as its very deep with lots of bait and I am positive one day a larger specimen will be cruising through when I am there.

As the sky lightened the waters erupted and with bait fish so we quickly coverted to surface lures. In the next 45 minutes 5 large tailor were landed with a couple of bust offs thrown in. Massive highlight included watching an easily 80cm + destroy a squid on the surface and a jet of ink shooting skywards. After this we headed to the jetty itself for a quick trev flick were I scored one side hooked bludger and lost something more decent. Lots of fun on the 1-3KG! Then it was back to pick up Tanya for her water taxi back to the mainland...

Session 2: At the water taxi stop we were waiting for the ferry to come in when I said to Do$tylz, "you know what mate, I reckon that bank looks like flatty central". In true style he picks up his light rod and flick out. Hop... Hop... Hop... BANG. 50cm Flathead hooked and landed thanks. This brought the attention of many other waiting passengers and a few comments of "fluke" and "lucky" were heard. So in even better form 2 casts later, Hop... Hop... Hop... and BANG again! A 52cm Flatty hooked and landed. This shut any sceptics ups. 5 minutes later it was my turn with a 41cm fish and that was our dinner sorted!

Session 3: After bagging and cleaning our flathead we thought we would see if there were any more of those squire around (hopefully some bigger ones). It was high tide and we were hoping with the influx of bait fish into the area the larger fish may come in as well. Well there were no squire... But it was cod central! This is the most under photo'd (due to the fact the 6 out of 7 fish owned us) but probably my favourite session of the trip. Over only about 30 minutes, we both managed to hook and be owned by large estuary cod in the rocks. Much harder landing them land based than in a boat! Still using the 1-3kg gear didnt help wither. They were loving the 3 Inch Damiki Armour shads sick. I was lucky to land one at 40cm and narrowly lucked out on another which ducked into a cave right in front of me in like 10cm of water! Next it was hope for a Tailor lunch and a quick kip before out afternoon session.

Session 4: After a kip we headed down to my favourite rocks to see if I could get Henry onto any of those Blue Fin Trevs. Sadly the wind had changed making light gear very tough to fish. Did manage a couple of bream but no love on the trevs. Without much further thought we headed to the gutter on Home beach to flick some plastics. This turned out to be a good call. We waded out to the sand bar to cast back into the the gutter thus keeping the wind on our backs. Within seconds we were both on and over the space of an hour dozens of bream and flathead were caught and even a large gar fish. None of these fish were monsters, but some of the bream were still in that nice high 20's region. I also got thumped by something suspected of being a large flatty or even a jew that just didnt even know he had been hooked.

Next up it was showers, scotch and sleep with the intenton of doing it all over again!

Session 5: Wake up at 4:ooam and another awesome day. A little to awesome though. Without the heavy cloud cover the bite at Dunwich was over a lot quicker than hoped. With only 1 tailor in the bag we were looking for options. This was quickly answered by huge ammounts of bait getting smashed at the jetty proper. Dad turned up just in time for this so I went over and handed him a Lox with a popper to seeif he could get his first fish on popper. After nearly loosing hope Henry coached him and bit and next cast he was onto a nice Big Eye Trev. 2 Casts later and another one! Needless to say he is a popping fan now! Henry also managed 3 Big Eyes and I stupidly persisted with unweighted plasticc for a duck :blush: Henry also managed a large squid on a walk the dog lure! He also nearly soiled himself when a huge kingy boofed his lure but didnt hook up! Next time mate.

Session 6 & 7: To wrap we headed back to try for some flatties again with a result of one. We then headed to another spot we call the "Red Cliffs" for one last flick and Henry managed another nice squid on a surface lure and I got a solid bream on an armour shad.

All up it was an awesome weekend.

Its really hard to put into words the missed fish as well. Also the photo's indicate a good trip, there were so many near misses and rapages in between that I feel our heart rate was always up high!

Cheers for the good sesssion Do man and for the loan of the Lox rods.

Rob: I have totally burned through 3 packs of Armour Shads and will be ordering more soon!!!

Cheers.

Angus

Picture: Some rod porno.

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Schmuck wrote:

Awesome fishing guys! Sweet cod too. Was it Straddy fairly busy with the holidays?

Not from a fishing point of view.

There were tonnes of pre schoolies types there. But they didnt rise till early afternoon :P Rain most of the week kept the streets relatively free of them most nights as well.

The holiday crowds really converge around Cylindar Beach which does nothing to inhibit my fishing.

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Looks like I should've headed to Dunwich, thought with the school holidays it would really quiet there for fishing but your post proves wrong. Well done with the Cod to and as for the lost ones I think there's a couple there that might nudge 5kg good luck stopping em on lightg gear when they're right at you feet. Hopefully the water warms up and the Jacks and GT's fire up over there.

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Angus wrote:

Schmuck wrote:
Awesome fishing guys! Sweet cod too. Was it Straddy fairly busy with the holidays?

Not from a fishing point of view.

There were tonnes of pre schoolies types there. But they didnt rise till early afternoon :P Rain most of the week kept the streets relatively free of them most nights as well.

The holiday crowds really converge around Cylindar Beach which does nothing to inhibit my fishing.

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Haha yeah I must admit I've been guilty of being those schoolies, and post-schoolies types in the past :blush: . Strange there wasn't much fishing company though, last summer there were at least 6-7 guys on the rocks of Frenchmans/Deadmans every dawn.

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werewolf wrote:

Wow just makes me want to more my near-future camping trip there! Is it 4WD only?

LOL - replace "kip" with Nanna nap and your report reads funny as. The daily summary would be "morning fish, nanna-nap, arvo fish" ;)

Didnt use 4WD once mate. Its proper roads everywhere we went. The only reason you would need 4WD on the whole island is if you were heading down main beach, or into the middle of the island...

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what a epic weekend. That first Saturday night when I went to sleep I was OUT. The g/f said I was asleed within 1min of saying goodnight.

With all the topwater action I finally christened my cultiva zip'n'zippy lure that I've been using for over a year. Its just taken this long to get a fish to hit. But it was pretty much my go to lure for the trip.

Getting smoked by those cod was awesome. Had my 1-3 Lox and 1000 stella tested heavily on those. Very frustrating but very fun all the same.

The 2 squid on the top were awesome as. I watched the first one in the shallows attack the lure. It had 3 go's at it with no hook up and by the the lure was right at my feet so I stopped moving it. I saw it watching the lure and then lose interest so I gave it 1 more tweak and saw the eyes on the squid light up...literally it lit up. Then Boom... hooked itself on the rear treble.

I think there's so much more fishing that can be done there... just not enough time.

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straddy always gives a good account of itself- even an amateur like me can catch fish at amity! i always used to just drift my bait from the jetty at amity and would always get fish. the large numbers of slimy mackeral by-catch make great bait for the kingfish that very occasionally get landed but much more occasionally get hooked!

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