With the water warming up and the flies making their presence felt in the bush I've been hitting the water more. First trip in a while was to Clifton Springs. Fairly uneventful although I did see a monstrosity parked on the beach on the way back in.
I'm still trying to have a good session on the salmon landbased to give my now not so new spinning combo a good workout. So far it's only been one or two fish at most unfortunately. There's been some good ones around but I do miss Gunnamatta, the beaches over my side don't have the same shape and structure and I think they hold less fish as a result. I've been meaning to hit up Johanna at some stage but never get around to it.
Last week I broke out the night lights and hit up Swan Bay for a gumbo, and I thought maybe the inlet would be warmer than the rest of the bay and be home to a few snaps. I found the bait school in the entrance and grabbed a few nice salmon. It was a while until sunset so I had a bit of fun with the surface lures too. Heaps of banjoes around and I thought I;d run out of hooks before the tide change but I found another pack in one of my other tackle boxes and pushed on. There were a few taylor about as usual too.
Today I was up early and heading to St Leonards for some whiting. I should've checked the weather as the first couple of hours had the wind against the tide and was very hard to fish. I did end up with 7-8 fish though. On the tide change I relocated to some deeper water at the wreck of the Clarence and picked up a couple more to finish up with 10. After that I drifted around while cleaning the fish and score a handful of squid.
