Roger – a few words for you.
Should anyone want to attempt the metrey on fly the
opportunity is now in Shoal Bay. Just got back and the big girls are there in
numbers but don’t do as I did and take a pocket knife to a gun fight. A 7
weight is not the answer to putting scales in the boat when you have to pull
them up in 3 - 5 metre wide drains lined with scrub and mid water snags. It
does not happen, Barra 3 – Jim 0! Busted off big time, good fun though and not
a bad way to spend 4 hours!
Mobs of LARGE Barra moving up and down with the tide on the
Howard Springs flood plain. Barra boofing foot long mullet three foot into the
air or coming out of the water rolling onto mobs of large mullet. Spot #6 in
the fish finder. All the bait, and lots of it, was on the large size,
indicative of the lack of flood plain water I think.
Fly of choice a “Roggie Dodgie Mullet Fly”, obviously these
Barra have class about them (Roger I’m running out of flies!). There was not
too much stealth about it as you could see and hear the lines of Barra as they
moved up and down, pick your spot and the would eventually come to you.
Good luck to anyone who gives it a go but be careful of the
run back to Buff Creek if trying to beat the tide of sand banks and the short
sharp chop as the swell meets the shallows.
The fish are there, it’s up to you.
Jim
**alright Jim doing up some more mullet flies
What moon phase spring tides were they
active on, I was there on a full moon spring up the top and you could hear a
pin drop, there was no feeding.
Jim says
that he hasn’t got a clue, he was out there yesterday, the 15th
whatever faze that is.
New moon now, I was out there on a full –
bloody Shoal Bay, I always preferred the new out there… back in the days when I
used to fish it reg, haven’t been there more than twice in the last 5
yrs.
just checking how this works
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