throwing lures around hilaries
dont know if this should be in the report section but here i go. had a few hours to kill out at hillaries so decided to have a go at a lure only fishing trip (LB), to date aside from a few herring on a 5g halco twisty and a bony herring of a jetty on a laserpro45 is all ive managed on lures but i was keen to give it a go. got to the rockwall near spinnakers and the lighthouse around 330pm and wandered along having a quick chat to some fishers already there. few small fish caught along the rockwall nearer the beach and i witnessed a guy bring up a well sized tarwhine from the fishing platform, everyone was using prawns from what i saw.
had my 2-4kg spin rod and a selection of smaller hardbodies, some soft plastics and a squid jig. i flicked out a mcarthur pearl minnow plastic for a while trying different retrieves and varied depth as much as could around the rockwalls on the outside and in for a while with no hits. kept it up for 30mins with no bites i got out the squid jig as it was calm on the inside so i flicked that around trying to recreate and practice the technique i saw on youtube, still no luck moving up and down the wallk and then onto the outside wall again. i swapped again and threw the laserpro45 around on the outside varying retrieves and pauses along the wall untill the platform. nothin...
so all in all a fairly unsuccessfull trip, practiced working lures a bit so not a complete waste and it was a relaxing way to spend the arvo, figured id at least post a report and mabye some of the more experienced guys could tell me if i did anything wrong or mabye the fish just werent on the bite or in the area.
cheers for reading
Niko
Hutch
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I had a go with bait for
I had a go with bait for about an hour and then gave up this arvo, nothing but blowies everywhere. Thought it may be close enough to summer and they would have started thinning out a bit but unfortunately not so. As the warmer water and weather arrives there will be more interest in lures also with school tailor, herring, and snook/pike. Also usually a lot of yakkas around in the warmer water which smash small placcies.
Niko
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Date Joined: 26/11/13
Had a feeling that was the
Had a feeling that was the case, im usually a bait fisho, but couldnt get my hands dirty yesterday so lures it was. Mabye ill give it another crack in warmer months cheers
rob90
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Date Joined: 06/02/13
tides
I fish hillaries on my kayak alot with artificials, and ive noticed that the fish only really fire on an incoming tide, as for your lures most of the Harbour is around 6m deep so unless your using burley trail I noticed the fish...... and there are some big fish lurking in there, dont come far off the bottom unless they got a true reason, so I usually fish placcies and jigs on the bottom as close to all the structure as possible. Twitch twitch hold on!
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Niko
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Date Joined: 26/11/13
yeh i looked at the tides
yeh i looked at the tides before i decided to have a go, pretty sure it was the low tide change while i was gonna be out, didnt look promising but hey dont no till u try haha. i dont get out as often as id like so i tend to just go with woteva tide i get but this summer im gonna have a real go at planning around tides and sunset to see what difference it makes for me. i tried to fish the bottom with the plastics i had but didnt persist long enough mabye. a kayak is already on the xmas wishlist too!