By DAVID SOLANO
It just seems to get better and better, fishing that is.
Saturday morning at 4am, Ric Creighton, Craig Costigan and myself headed down to Iluka to fish the walls and Browns rocks for jewfish. The conditions were perfect with an incoming tide and nice clear water.
At Browns rocks, Richard caught a PB flathead right on 80cms, then another PB with a 47cms mangrove jack, Ric was on fire.
We next headed to the sea wall on the Yamba side of the river, here Craig and I both lost what we thought were big jewfish, I eventually caught a 52cm schooly which put up a great fight on my light bream gear, shame I couldn’t stop the big one.
I was pretty tired on Sunday morning but still went out for a few casts, at one spot I caught two little flatties one after the other, I thought where there’s little ones often you’ll find a big female nearby and sure enough on the third cast a massive lizard grabbed my physco soft plastic and took off. I kept getting it close but I couldn’t get a look at it. I knew it was a big flathead by the big head shakes. Eventually after a good 10 minutes I got it next to the yak, when I put the lip gripper on its lower jaw it went nuts (my net was too small). I was shaking so much it took me a good 10 minutes to calm down.
Earlier I was chatting to a fellow yakker who asked me if you can catch fish in the river? On his way back I showed him the lizard, Wow! was the response. You sure can catch big fish in the Tweed. Cheers.
