Fishing On the Tweed with David Solano
THE river is going through a little transition, winter to summer, meaning the winter species are starting to slow down with Jew fishing pretty much coming to an end.
However, the exciting part is that the summer species are already showing up, with a few of my mates getting into some sizeable jacks, most were caught up in the Gold Coast canals.
So far on the Tweed I’ve only heard of a couple of little ones being caught around Boyd’s Bay Bridge.
My favorite part of summer fishing is it’s time to hit the surface. I spent the whole weekend doing it. I took four rods with me but I only used one and, you guessed it, the one with the surface lure tied on to it, the lure a “berkly pop dog” in the “Hey You” color.
I tried a couple of different styles of retrieving the lure, one technique is to hop the pop dog a metre or so then just let it sit there the whole time, keeping your line tight and in contact with the lure, often a fish, particularly bream will take it after 10 seconds or so as I think they swim around it sussing it out before striking – and that’s the exciting part, seeing that big explosion of water as the fish takes the lure, the next thing your rod loads up, the drag starts to scream and you’re on.
This style of fishing is so exciting and adrenalin-filled that you’ll definitely be back for more.
A good place to start practicing where there’s a lot of hungry bream and that’s the sand flats behind the Maritime Museum on Kennedy Drive. Cheers.
