We are going for a bash on the river tomorrow morning.. Going to give both boats a bit of a trial run.. Will put in the light gear and go for a bit of a troll, see if theres any river tailor about..

Then Sunday will probably go for an inshore bash to see if we can't find some of the dhuies which have moved in close, failing that might head out to dhufish alley and pick up a feed..

Looks like the weather should be ok.

might see ya out there adam, where you launching tomorow ?

Gave it a miss this morning, looked pretty ugly out there.. got my last uni assignment due and if I want to go fishn tomorrow I had better get it done..

On the fish front thou.. mate of mine said he drove past freshie yacht club and saw a big school of tailor splashing about on the surface out the front.. sounds like they are starting to heat up..

End result for todays fishing was..

5 port jacksons, released
1 flathead 55cm, released
2 king george
1 harlequin
1 dhufish

Very slow day of fishing, but as it happens, one fish can make the day all that much better!!

Gribbo's dhuie, Sunday November 6th

Thats sounds like it was pretty good.. yeh, we were having a bit of trouble with the conditions as well..  Didn't make for easy fishing going over some of those peaks..

Must have been an easy 3-3.5 meter swell running and that gusty easterly first thing sucked.. we ended up anchoring up on a port jackson colony and wasted half our morning.. Soon as the sou-wester came in things picked up a little..

What sort of area where you fishing for 3 mulloway? Out at the containers?

Sounds like a ripper of a day mate.. having to leave a spot because the fish are biting to well, sounds like my sort of day.. I managed one 55cm flathead and a port jackson and that was about all the bites and action I got all day.. Thought that wind would be howling out at the 100m mark, you must have been using bricks for sinkers!

Mate the weather was awesome, we didnt even use the sea-anchor at all cos there was no need. There was bugger all wind and a slight northerly current. You just about could have drifted a bait down if you could have been bothered waiting the 15 years for it to reach the bottom but the fishing was straight up and down so we got away with very little weight. Gotta love it

Sounds like you had it nice then!

Out from Ocean Reef we had big pointy swells, a heap of northerly current, gusting easterlies which kept swinging from north to south.. wasn't much fun out where we were.. we were using two drift anchors and it was still to fast.. wasn't until about 10;30 or so when it starting dying out that it got easily fishable..  we were getting belted all over the boat until then..

Anchoring up was our only option for a couple of hours because it was too hard to fish on the drift..

We don't even bother with e.freo ramp anymore.. it is just too much hard work after trying to go for a relaxing day of fishing..

Sounds like you got a nice feed there salmo!!  Looks like we should have headed out from freo way on the weather front, was horrible from ocean reef..  When we got back in thou, there was an ambulance, the sea rescue boat (the big one) and a channel 9 helicopter flying overhead, don't know what happened out from Ocean Reef, don't suppose anyone knows?

Wierd thing is that the dhuie had two tails, well sort of, have a look at this..

 

The parking inspector was at freo ramp all day parked under a tree....well till 2.00pm anyway
 
I went and asked him about signs etc....and the weekend chaos...he said "yeh mate gets pretty heated down here doesn’t it " he said there use to be signs but someone pulled them down....
 
No excuse when some one sues them for negligence or damage. I've got retreiving the tinnie from the middle now down pat...

Lucky retrieving a tinny is an easy job.. the old 18 ft fibre doesn't like going down the middle too much, well, not when the current and wind have anything to do with it.. but with a new trailer it is a pretty easy job, straight on and done.. I really cant figure out why it has to take everyone 20 minutes to get their shit organised..

Yep, tinnies are great to retrieve.

When I got back to the ramp I was stoked to see only a few boats…but there was a heap of boats coming in up river behind me

After waiting to be next in the retrieve line for 20 minutes, while some guys lifted a big mother boat out.... a dude backed down his 26ft+ trailer sailer before I could get my car down....he rooted around for 10 minutes just untying the boom...so I thought stuff this …backed down the middle…jumped out and ran up the jetty…drove the tinnie on to the trailer as far as I could…jumped down off the bow...winched the last bit on...and we were done....

One bloke gave me the evil eye...but he had just got in and jumped the queue on 3 other patient punters, so i just stared back…his mate said “gee mate, you done that before” and I replied “not from in the middle mate but with rude crew around I’ve starting to learn fast”….he didn’t get what I meant I’m sure…

Well it looks like a few people had a good day out , hey Salmo we fished little island but wind/swell was pretty bad early morning as Adam said, didnt manage any KG's or anything worth keeping really. Quite dissappointing.

What side of the island do you normal fish?