Duration: 18.00 - 21.30
Tide: incoming
Weather:clear sky, bright moon, crystal clear/flat calm sea....started raining just as I got back to the car
Bait: rag, mack
Rigs: 3 hook flapper with beads, 3 hook flapper no beads
Results: 5 flounder, 4 whiting, 1 coalie, 1 pouting
Report:
Fished halfway up the beach (where the arch used to be). First time out on my own in a while so thought I'd use the opportunity for a bit of an experiment. I fished one rod with beads and one rod without, both baited the same/similar and both fished at around the same distance (50 yards and closer). With the water being gin clear, the sky clear and the moon very bright (wouldnt really have needed a headlamp it was that bright
), I thought the beads may act as an extra attractant.Didnt work out that way, the coalie and 1 whiting came to the rig with beads, all the other fish came to the plain rig.
Nothing worth taking pics of really as all fish were relatively small, but I took a couple of the flounder, just to show the different in the colouration of some the flatties caught around greystones.
I have only fished this place once before and it threw up nice suprise bass, with this in mind, I changed one of the flappers for a pennel rig and threw out a mack head for the last 45 mins.
Needless to say, it came back untouched
It wasnt a hectic nights fishing by anyones standards, but pleasant all the same.
As I was leaving, another guy had come down to the beach, he had heard recent good reports about the place fishing well, but said he hadnt fished there in some time.
