Fishing on the Tweed By DAVID SOLANO
I HEADED down to Iluka for a weekend of mulloway fishing, chasing the big ones – we had been waiting weeks for the tide to be right, so down we went.
I had an idea that Yamba and Iluka would be busy because of the school holidays, but what I’d forgotten there was an Australian Bream Comp (ABT) on the same weekend, 69 boats had entered and had pre-fished the river on the Friday.
We started fishing Saturday morning, I didn’t get a bite, those guys put so much pressure on the system as the amount of casts they get off has to be seen, two guys casting jig heads with braid for seven hours continuously must eventually spook the fish a bit for sure. We left pretty early and were on the Yamba middle wall about 5.30am.
The tournament launched up river at McClean, a normal hours boat ride in a normal boat. The first comp boat left at 7am, well at 12 minutes past seven we spotted it, more heard it as we could just make out a water spout coming from the back of the boat up at Browns Rocks, a couple of minutes later a big American bass boat went screaming by, hang on, as he went by he waved at me, it was Tristan Taylor, a young gun on the bream circuit.
I used to work with Tristan and he is the one who got me into this lure capper.
It wasn’t long before about 40 of the same kind of boats clogged the river mouth, funny they all wanted our spot, later we motored over for a chat with Tristo, it’s always good to catch up with old mates. Cheers.
