With my last chance of a place in the hobie grand final coming up next weekend down at Ballina, I’ve been practicing running hared bodied lures parallel. My mate Guy Struthers told me about it, sounds easy but when you throw in the current, floating debris and other boats its hard work. I was snagging up but with four rods I just kept swapping my busted off rods for a new one, finally when I was on my last lure I landed one nice size bream. 5 1/2 hours it took, that’s hard work for one bream and that’s in a river I know. I’m really worried about Ballina as I’m not that confident in finding bream down there.
Ballina is the place where I had my best ever fishing experience. I was on Richard Creighton’s boat with Wayne “Vando” van den Broek and we were chasing flathead, we had fished the Tweed the day before and managed a 82cm lizard behind the hospital, it was then Wayne told us about the big flathead that you can get down at Ballina at a place called ‘the porpoise wall’ so that was our next stop.
We all had on 7 inch gulp minnows with 3/4oz TT jig heads, we find the bottom and dead stick away. I foul hooked my first one so it took about 20 minutes to get him in, 6 1/2 kg, next cast one just over 7 kg, then half an hour later I got another one just on 6kg, I couldn’t believe it, the boys didn’t get one yet we were using the same technique, same lures, hey but that’s fishing for you. I was just lucky as my lure kept finding the fish. To top it off “Vando” filmed the whole thing, I’ll put the footage up on youtube soon, it’s a funny watch, R-Rated.
Cheers.
