I decided, seeing the wind wasn't as bad early to target a little fished flat, that recently I saw a barra up in the metre class on. On that occasion the client with me wasn't able to put a cast within a bulls roar of the fish,"let me at it" .
Well I didn't see it or any of the better fish I saw that day, certainly found a lot of fish up to 65cm, maybe 25. For the first two hours they totally ignored us even pulling up and backing off the fly.
Sometimes this happens and is so frustrating but when the tide turned so did their attitude. In the next hour and a half we both ended up having double hook ups landing probably a dozen. No big ones, with maybe 5 legal and one at 68cm.
We both had on Wayne Williams STS fly mainly because it had some good weed guards. Certainly did the trick, Dotty lost hers when a small stripey nailed it and a big cod ate the stripey. It wasn't letting go and believe it after a lot of tugging and a forced jump it made a piece of reef.
The wind is still pretty horrendous in Darwin, went to do a charter today and the boat ramp pontoon at East arm was going up and down like a yo yo, had to turn around and go home. Probably good for a milkfish although that wind tends to travel around corners and funnel the creeks. Its supposed to back of by the weekend.
I think I recognise that flat you were fishing on, its 'Shrek's Flat'.........Far, Far Away!!!!!!
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