WHAT to write about this weekend? You would be pretty be sick of reading about my current fixation about marlin fishing, I make no apology about it, it is an addiction; but I will try my darnedest to discuss other types of fishing.
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During the week I received a recording of a father-and-son team fishing for Murray cod – there you go not talking about the beaky ones – on what looks like the Murray using surface lures during the day. Not having used too many surface lures, my thoughts were that you mainly use them around dusk or dawn but I suppose if a fish is hungry - a fish is hungry.
Humans are the only animals that have a dedicated eating time or even have a clock for that matter.
I’m going to digress just for a moment, we – humans, although some people would want to argue the point me being called a human – are the only animal that have to go to work, have holidays, need to make money to live and feel sorry for ourselves.
You could call this evolution I suppose and it is what makes us human otherwise we would still be apes.
I often look at the animals we have at home as I am going to work and think they don’t gave a rats what is going to happen today, no getting to work at a certain time, going to eat when they are hungry, sleep if they are tired or might just chase my tail for the hell of it.
Does this make us the smart ones or the dumb ones?
Back to the cod fishing where was I – surface lures, casting towards the trees in the middle of the afternoon and whack, the son hooks what turns out to be a metre-plus cod.
I actually got a little excited and started thinking about what knot he used to tie his leader on – stupid hey – and whether he would lose the fish due to poor knot, chafed line and all the things that actually go through my head if and when I get onto a large fish.
The running commentary was pretty good as well, yes there were a couple of naughty words used but that is going to happen if and when you hook one of these buggers.
Once the fish was in the net, the joy and the comradery in father and son’s voices and actions is what fishing is all about.
Don’t tell the wife but it made me start planning a cod trip in the not too distant future and hopefully, hopefully I can finally land a cod over the magic mark.
I have had quite a few customers coming in with reports and photos of big fish.
I had a couple of young blokes saying that since cod opening this season between them they have landed six fish over the metre.
I know time on the water equates to fish but I haven’t heard of this many large fish being caught for a while.
It could be that the lures are changing and the larger more smarter fish haven’t seen these lures before or it could be that all the regulations that have been put into place and people actually taking notice of them has allowed these fish to grow.
I haven’t heard of too many yellas being caught locally, but then, maybe people aren’t fishing for them at the moment. It could be the wind and the hot weather, but the reddies have seemed to have dropped off a little as well.
South Coast fishing – not this old chestnut again you say – is still pretty good, exceptional up around JB where the water temperature is around the 26 degrees and the bait balls are huge and that just means Mr Beaky is hanging around. A couple more weeks and that should be closer to home so there is no excuse not to get out and have a crack.
Pictures to – craig@waggamarine.com.au or 0419 493 313.
PS. The main reason for this week’s picture being another marlin is that young Jack Warden landed his first and second Marlin last week, not bad for a 10-year-old!