First outing of 2021

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First outing of 2021

Post by 4liters » Sat Jan 02, 2021 10:16 pm

I took off to a local spot today with a truckload of burley and murder on my mind.

Ended up with 13 gars, a multitude of micro pinkies until I gave up bottom fishing entirely and a couple of undersize flatties.

Interestingly despite using pilchards for both bait and burley I didn't see one tommy ruff, they have gone nuts over pilchards previously and I expected to be filling the bait freezer with a few of them.

The gars I put out under a float didn't attract any interest, although it was good to have a bit of practice rigging them up.

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Re: First outing of 2021

Post by Sebb » Sat Jan 02, 2021 10:27 pm

Some chunky gars there :tu:
Somewhere in Corio I assume?
Is the new reef in St Helens any good yet?

Might head to Corio in ne next few weeks.
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Re: First outing of 2021

Post by denis barden » Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:01 am

Lou King Good
Gars for me mon morn

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Re: First outing of 2021

Post by poodoo » Sun Jan 03, 2021 8:48 am

Nice one mate!

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Re: First outing of 2021

Post by Don Fisher » Sun Jan 03, 2021 9:26 am

Sebb wrote:
Sat Jan 02, 2021 10:27 pm
Some chunky gars there :tu:
Somewhere in Corio I assume?
Is the new reef in St Helens any good yet?

Might head to Corio in ne next few weeks.
Have they already put in the new reef? Surely it wouldn’t attract fish straight away

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Re: First outing of 2021

Post by 4liters » Sun Jan 03, 2021 9:30 am

It took a couple of years for the other artificial reefs to attract large numbers of target species. You need the seaweed and other encrusting things to start growing on the reef structure before there's anything to attract the smaller species - the larger fish tend to follow after that.
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Re: First outing of 2021

Post by Lightningx » Sun Jan 03, 2021 11:53 am

Good stuff mate 👍🏻

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Re: First outing of 2021

Post by 4liters » Sun Jan 03, 2021 3:18 pm

and now ready to hopefully be turned into a kingfish


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