Another surface session
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2020 11:54 am
On the back of finally getting a cod off the surface in the yarra, went back to see if i could repeat the success or go back into the process of multiple donut sessions before getting another to hand. Thankfully it was the first outcome!
Headed to the chosen stretch and began the walk away from the car. Stopped about half way for an opportunistic flick at a likely spot and the first cast in yielded a couple seconds of action to my surprise. Long cast to a backwater on the other side of the river, my lure splashed down and was immediately met with a ripple that wasn't from the landing and looked like a bow wave. An second bow wave was seen a second later with a flash of of green and cream body underneath it, followed even quicker by a small gunshot-esque sound and splash around the lure by the coloured body which darted away. No hook up, but a definite boof. Few more casts in the area for nada, but a promising start.
Continued working away from the car until Seb85 and his mate caught up with me for the session. We collectively worked our way back to the car, spreading casts all over the likely stretches of water.
I got to a pool where after a couple casts in i got a small boof a couple of meters from my feet. Following this i put a series of short casts into the area and subsequently each retrieve took a number of tiny boofs from the cod. Eventually on the 4th set of boofs, it foul hooked itself and was hooked enough for me to land a fiesty 20cm-ish cod. Size not there, but was more than happy following up the last session with another cod to hand from the top.
Continued working back towards the car, the weather had slowly changed from muggy and humid to wet and dense (lots of condensation in the air - so much that i had the wipers on driving home to clear it constantly building up on the windscreen), impacting the fish activity in the system no doubt. It was really slow going, with nothing boosting the confidence that we had a chance at anything. Fishing a pool with seb, i put a cast to the otherside of the river, retrieved it halfway back, stopped for 30s to talk to him thinking the night was dead and over and got unexpectedly interrupted by a boof on my dormant lure. No hook up or following action - but the action certainly got me thinking on approach and techniques for the next attempt.
We ended the session shortly after, seb got a swirl from what may have been a little cod in one of the pools and i got 3 boofs with one to hand - so overall despite being the regular tough going it is, a successful and productive session for the water + extremely good to be 2/2 on surface sessions.
Cheers, Chris
Headed to the chosen stretch and began the walk away from the car. Stopped about half way for an opportunistic flick at a likely spot and the first cast in yielded a couple seconds of action to my surprise. Long cast to a backwater on the other side of the river, my lure splashed down and was immediately met with a ripple that wasn't from the landing and looked like a bow wave. An second bow wave was seen a second later with a flash of of green and cream body underneath it, followed even quicker by a small gunshot-esque sound and splash around the lure by the coloured body which darted away. No hook up, but a definite boof. Few more casts in the area for nada, but a promising start.
Continued working away from the car until Seb85 and his mate caught up with me for the session. We collectively worked our way back to the car, spreading casts all over the likely stretches of water.
I got to a pool where after a couple casts in i got a small boof a couple of meters from my feet. Following this i put a series of short casts into the area and subsequently each retrieve took a number of tiny boofs from the cod. Eventually on the 4th set of boofs, it foul hooked itself and was hooked enough for me to land a fiesty 20cm-ish cod. Size not there, but was more than happy following up the last session with another cod to hand from the top.
Continued working back towards the car, the weather had slowly changed from muggy and humid to wet and dense (lots of condensation in the air - so much that i had the wipers on driving home to clear it constantly building up on the windscreen), impacting the fish activity in the system no doubt. It was really slow going, with nothing boosting the confidence that we had a chance at anything. Fishing a pool with seb, i put a cast to the otherside of the river, retrieved it halfway back, stopped for 30s to talk to him thinking the night was dead and over and got unexpectedly interrupted by a boof on my dormant lure. No hook up or following action - but the action certainly got me thinking on approach and techniques for the next attempt.
We ended the session shortly after, seb got a swirl from what may have been a little cod in one of the pools and i got 3 boofs with one to hand - so overall despite being the regular tough going it is, a successful and productive session for the water + extremely good to be 2/2 on surface sessions.
Cheers, Chris