After a bit of a quiet time away from fishing I had the chance to hit it up big time last night and this morning after getting the thumbs up from the missus.
First up, Tackleshack Doug and I headed down to a little bream spot down Caversham way.
While this spot normally doesn't really start firing until at least late January, we were hoping that the recent hot weather might have brought some bream this far up stream.
Alas, it wasn't to be - although I did land one small bream - which was an indication that they are coming. Soon I hope.
We did manage to catch a large number of grunter and a turtle, but we can hope for better action in a few weeks time.
While the fish weren't what we were chasing, the location and the weather was fantastic.
We also spotted a dolphin in the area - which was a surprise for this far up the river at this time of the year.

After a few hours sleep, Sherbs and I hit the coastline in the search for some tailor and herring.
We arrived at the beach just as the light was starting to appear, to find pretty good conditions - with a light south easter and a low swell.
We tried a few mulies on paternoster rigs before Sherbs suggested we take the weight off.
I went for a totally unweighted mulie, while Sherbs tried a rig he has been having some success with, which features one smallish sinker.
Sherbs was right on the money and I soon had three tailor in three casts. Two about 38 cm to 40 cm and the other a bit smaller, which went back.
The action slackened off a bit after that as a rising breeze began to make it a bit harder to fish without any weight.
As we were only there for a hit and run trip, we peservered with the rigs we had and Sherbs soon pulled in two very nice herring and I managed another 38 cm plus tailor and a nice flathead.
There were a few other guys fishing this location and we did as well as anybody, though one guy did catch a cracker tailor and a thumping buff bream, and one of Sherb's acquaintances seemed to be pulling in quite a few herring.

So I ended my short fishing drought with two good sessions with two great blokes and I am hoping the rest of 2009 will be the same.

A few of the fish Sherbs and I caught this morning. The reel is a new Abu Garcia Soron which I had teamed up on my Moonraker rod. It proved a perfect combo for casting unweighted mulies.

All the best,

Colin Hay