JAN 11, THE UNTOUCHABLES

From Bendigo, Jeff and John..

Gday Cathie & Roger

 “The Untouchables”

 Launched the tinnie from Dinah at 7am on Saturday morning with my new Boss (John) & started our day up Reichart & Blessers Creeks attempting to catch a few Barra, which we had success doing with John landing his first sight cast Barra off a small rocky lump on the first push of the incoming tide (tick that box).

Now with the Barra ticked off we then decided to leave the creeks & while passing “The Wharf” we were faced with a predicament of a bust up of “untouchable” queenie’s right in front of the eatery section (see sample image), now I can certainly say the temptation was to zoom in for a quickie cast & get out of there, but “no guts no glory” or perhaps the fear of a rogue chip or dim sim from above being launched from a cranky local put us off.  

Beware of flying chips and dim sims

So we thought if we stayed off The Wharf by about 50 metres they would come in our direction eventually, yeah right that’s going to happen as they went deep & out of sight!.

We then moved on towards the other end of the Wharf & out of the blue up they come, we had re-located “The Untouchables” at “The Jetty Restaurant” end of the Wharf & in open territory, the only problem though as the sounder started pinging away like no tomorrow, was the thousands of small bait in the water that were looking like a smorgasbord to any hungry queenie in a neat tight ball that even an English cricket player couldn’t miss hitting.    

For anyone looking for a bit of fun fishing around the Wharf area, there’s a red buoy near “The Jetty Restaurant” & if you sit there long enough you will see bust up’s in casting distance on neap tides once it turns from Low to High, they are not big but there’s always a heap of them. Once you see them around the Jetty Restaurant they tend to keep heading towards the Fisherman’s wharf area following the incoming tide, they then hang around the old Jetty off Perkins Shipping if you want to chase them (birds will come off the old Jetty once they surface which assists the chase). 

  

Jeff

TIP FOR UNTOUCHABLE QUEENIES??

Sometimes it pays to have a four or six inch large popper on a dark side rod in the boat, take off the hooks and drag it through the queenies when they wont take flies.   This method used to drive the queenies crazy and they would hit everything after that.  Might still work?? and stirs up other fish as well.