Fishing On the Tweed By DAVID SOLANO
YOU’VE gotta love this time of the year with the cold clear mornings and spectacular sunrises – oh, and spawning bream.
I fished the blue hole both mornings and found the bream to be there in large numbers.
I started using a 1/8th jig head rigged with a three inch minnow in the new penny colour, as the current slowed I went to a 1/12 oz jig, then to a 1/20 then to a hidden weight 1/60th it was with this really light jig that I caught most of the big fish.
Letting the lure run down the rock wall then letting it sit there just like bait fishing, slowly I’d feel a couple of little nudges then I’d lift the rod tip and I’d be on. A lot of the time I didn’t even feel a thing, I just found I had a fish on.
I think I caught around 20 fish and everyone of them squirted me, I ended up a mess covered in bream milk.
I found it a bit strange on Saturday as it was such a fine day yet there weren’t many boats around, usually the blue hole is a pretty hard place to fish – a bit of a choke point really – but on Saturday, apart from a couple of trawlers coming in, I had the place to my self. What more could you want, fish on the chew and the place is all yours. Cheers.
