new south wales A Quick Session In The Lagoon

[snatcher]

With a brief break in the torrential rain decided to head down to Narrabeen Lagoon for a couple of hours.  Our daughter kindly dropped me off there on the school run

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As I had done well at Pelican Bridge previously,decided to try there again.  Set up a running leger with a small oval weight and a short 6lb fluorocarbon trace. As there seemed to be a lot of pickers there opted for a small hook for starters,a no 8.  You can catch a big fish on a small hook but you cannot catch a small fish on a big hook

Using squid for bait cast towards the middle and let the bait trundle down in the current.  Within seconds had hooked up into what seemed like a good. sized fish on my light gear.  It was a decent bream.  A quick photo on my phone and back it went.

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In the next hour I managed to catch 4 more bream,one being as big as the first,the other 3 being much smaller.  It was virtually a bite a cast and I was still missing a lot of them.  Next up it was a small tailor.

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Oh well it made a change from the bream Just before I was due to pack in caught a decent sized whiting which made a pleasant change.

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A most enjoyable little session with all fish carefully returned to fight another day.  Lets see what the weekend brings,need to get the grandsons out fishing again.  They do enjoy it.  Here are a couple of images from our last ozzie trip.  Joshua giving advice here to younger brother Theo.

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Joshua here with a bream. Have taught them the importance of putting fish back and conservation

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John

 

[Luvit]

I would think most kids given the opportunity would love to do this.

Nice report and photos.

[ellicat]

Anything that bends the rod is a good thing.

 

Except, of course, dead bodies and pike eels.

[snatcher]

Did catch a pike eel once when we were staying up at Noosa.  It really was a horrible thing.  I was covered in slime by the time I got it unhooked.  Also caught my first stingray there so that was 2 new species on that trip for me.

John

[ellicat]

You're lucky you didn't get bitten - they have a habit of trying to get you.

[snatcher]

It did try and bite me ellicat.  Will be well happy not to catch another one ever again !!!

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The stingray I was able to pick up like this as its tail had been docked by a previous captor.

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John

 

[Drop Bear]

On 20/03/2019 at 2:47 PM, ellicat said:

Anything that bends the rod is a good thing.

 

Except, of course, dead bodies and pike eels.

or dead pike eels.

[Drop Bear]

On 21/03/2019 at 8:40 AM, snatcher said:

Did catch a pike eel once when we were staying up at Noosa.  It really was a horrible thing.  I was covered in slime by the time I got it unhooked.  Also caught my first stingray there so that was 2 new species on that trip for me.

John

Great report mate thanks for that. Did you eat the stingray? 

[snatcher]

On 04/04/2019 at 8:46 AM, Drop Bear said:

Great report mate thanks for that. Did you eat the stingray? 

No the stingray went back Drop Bear.  I rarely keep any fish I catch.  I did keep a couple of coral trout when fishing out from Port Douglas though

John

[Drop Bear]

11 hours ago, snatcher said:

No the stingray went back Drop Bear.  I rarely keep any fish I catch.  I did keep a couple of coral trout when fishing out from Port Douglas though

John

Ok fair enough. I am looking for a few tips on how to cook up skate. I have been told that some stingrays are delicious and some are rubbish. I don't know which is which. 

Keep up the good fishing!