FishingCrazy

I managed to score a few days off work mid-week, and being the first week of open bass season in Northen NSW it was a no brainer of what I was going to do.

That night I loaded the ute, tied on fresh leaders, then couldn't sleep in anticipation of the first bass flick of the season.

The alarm screamed at me at 4am, jumped out of bed then suddenly realized my throat felt like dry sandpaper and my nose felt like someone had squeezed a full tube of silicon up each nostril..............MAN FLU........NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO..

It takes a fair bit to stop me going fishing, tried to walk it off round the yard then headed back to bed thinking, "WOW, I must be sick".

Headed to the doctors who said I had a cold (really?? lol) and need to rest a few days, he also noted that I am now over 50 and should have a prostate exam......and asked me " Would you like one?"   

........................WOULD I like one?

......WOULD I like one? 

What sort of a question is that?

Every time I go to a doctor, now I am over 50, they always ask me that. Why? Do they enjoy the nervous squeamish look on people's faces????

Anyway,

Slept all day, dreaming of catching bass, woke on the couch at 3am the next morning and thought "stuff it, I'm going". What does a doctor know????

I mean he asked WOULD I like a prostate exam, lol.

Soooo glad the "need to fish" won the battle of "need to recover" as the fishing was well worth pushing myself to get up and moving.

Here is a vid of the morning and arvo surface session. The weather was extremely hot for the first week of spring, 32 degrees in the shade at 11am, don't know if that's why the bass were hitting the surface so well or if it was because a lot of the grass and trees along the bank had been burnt away meaning they weren't getting much food from the frogs and insects etc. that they would usually be getting?

I was using the Zman frogs.

How good is bass surface fishing.

This winter I have been using the micro shad fryz soft plastics for bream. Really small soft plastic, they look like a small hardie head in the water.

Bream love them. You need to rig them on a light gauge finesse hook though because they are so tiny.

Maybe you should try spooning for tailor, lol, like I did today.

1 hour ago, ellicat said:

The lure quality can play a part (with where the weight is inside the lure) in getting that distance with a heavy setup. Not sure that that is your problem, but thought I'd mention it.

100% agree on lure quality or type of lure. 

I cast some larger hardbody lures from the beach in the surf. Some you can cast a mile while others of the same weight cast half the distance. Lures with most of their weight in the tail end of the lure get a lot more distance.

Some of the fancy $$$$$ lures will have a sliding weight inside them so when you cast the weight slides to the tail and they fly dead straight like a bullet, they don't spin, twist of flutter through the air, then the weight slides forwards more on retrieve.

On 11/03/2023 at 8:54 AM, mangajack said:

Never too early or too late for a jack session....they are primarily night time feeders.

30 years ago the two go to colours for jacks was red or green, the past decade has been white for me and next to no result with the old favorites.

I wonder why the colours that use to work best get no results now ? Do you have a theory? 

22 hours ago, ellicat said:

Gee, that sunrise period looked hard to take. haha

Qualifies for a top day after getting that first one. Nice.

The early morning sunrises on the water are just a magic time of the day.

22 hours ago, Rebel said:

Top video.

Well done.

Thanks mate, 

19 hours ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Some solid jacks there, nice work!

The jack addiction is real, lol. They are such a powerful fish for their size. That first hit when they smash your lure is so fast and aggressive. 

Hi guys and gals, 

I haven't put a report up for a bit, work gets in the way of fun unfortunately. 

Finally got a day to chase some jacks, with summer over the clock is ticking till the water starts to cool and the jacks go into hiding.

Launched the kayak in the dark, way too early as I couldn't sleep, too excited, was chucking lures in my sleep lol.

I was fishing with the Zman 4" paddle tails, white in colour, and was pretty pumped to land a 45cm angry jack at first light just before the sun poked its head over the horizon. 

Once the sun was up and blazing the wind and incoming tide had me drifting waaaaay too fast in the kayak to get more than 1 cast at a snag before having to paddle...........I'm too lazy to do that so went in for an early lunch and moved to another creek nearby with less flow and more wind protection.

Managed to hook into a bit of jack bycatch, small flattys, tiny trev and minute estuary cod till finally came up tight with another jack.

Was only 34cms, but after a million casts, sore arms from paddling all day and sunburn it makes it all worth it.

It's kind of funny, came in totally exhausted and dehydrated and thought " wow that was a lot of effort for only 2 jacks",

but I would do it all over again tomorrow if I didn't have to work. lol

Niiiiccce, gotta love that early time of day when the skys red and wind is low that most people, who don't fish, miss.

If you have too many prawns I can take some off your hands if you like......just cause I'm a nice guy........you know....and like to help others out.......

Congrat's on the new PB, what a beast!!!!!!

Only 58 bass???? That's a rest day for you. lol

I have only just started following what the barometer readings are each time I head out.

So far, very limited time of taking readings, I have still caught plenty of fish when the readings are low.

I had a jack session a few days ago where the reading was 999.9, really low, and still found a couple of good fish.

I think the air pressure dose have an effect on the fishing,

but I wouldn't NOT go fishing going on a low reading.

Just my limited knowledge 2 cents.