Hi all,
Thought i would give a brief report from my annual pilgrimage to Warrnambool this week end.
Arriving on Friday it was all about finding a quiet bend in the river to shelter us from the wind, a short drive to jubilee park and we were away. With the mouth closed the water level was high, it made sense to work the shallow areas casting plastics on a slow retrieve. After too many small hits and misses, we finally found a patch of fish willing to take the plastics, and ended up with 5 Bream to 37 cms, not a bad start for a few hours casting soft plastics. The wind was relentless on the Saturday, however luck was on our side as it dropped around the low tide time which gave us the opportunity to get some fresh bait, 30 mins of pumping spew worms and we had enough bait for the afternoon. we arrived back to the same spot on Saturday afternoon, the wind was finally cooperating. Using a light burley trail we managed to catch 9 size Bream, the biggest and last fish of the evening went at 40 cms. All up we would have thrown back 30 - 40 undersized bream which is always great to see. The river seams to be in a healthy state as usual which is why we will keep coming back year after year.
Warrnambool land based
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Re: Warrnambool land based
Used the turtle back worms in the watermelon, i was finding i was getting hits but no hook ups, this was fixed by cutting about an inch of the head, use as small a sinker as you can with small lifts and pauses. Good luck
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Re: Warrnambool land based
Did you rig it like a texas rig with a running sinker or did you tie a loop knot to the hook with the sinker in the loop? Just curious as I'm just starting out with plastics and weedless rigged worms and not sure which way is the one to go with
Re: Warrnambool land based
I generally use a meter leader with a small loop knot tied to the sinker, i find with the turtle backs you need weight at the jig head to get the action on the drop, the pause should be about 3 seconds after its hit the bottom to let the fish pick it up.