Windy night
Ended up going down to Hillarys and fishing behind Aqwa. BOM said it was gusting at 50 knotts there last night and I can believe them. It was howling and the spray was blowing about 50 metres over the rock wall. Managed to stick it out for about 3 hours and caught a couple of small skippy (including one I jagged in the butt). Had to toss them all back.
There was a bit of weed around as well, which made it a bit hard.
It all sounds pretty crappy, but it was great to get out and have a bit of wave action. The waters certainly had plenty of movement.
Anyone have any favourite landbased sites when the wind is howling?
Hi Rickets, I am definately planning to head further north. Want to head up and give Yanchep a crack very soon.
All the best
Colin Hay
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Hi Colin
Cheers
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Thanks Andy
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with the trend of blowing
with the trend of blowing Southerly in the afternoon, i tend to fish the northern tip of the marina's
have been getting some good tailor at ocean reef, mindarie and two rocks.
can cast a mile with an unweighted mulie when the wind is behind you
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Thanks upg
Somone recently suggested that there were tailor being caught on the beach near the northern wall at Hillarys. having the wind behind you certainly beats trying to belt a mulie into a 50 knott "sea breeze". Got to love the "breeze" part of that.
Noting the pic of a shark on your post reminds me that I saw a small shark while I was at the back of Aqwa last night. Don't know what it was, it was too choppy to se it clearly.
Thanks again Colin
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Hey upg
When you say the northern tips of Ocean reef and Mindarie, do you mean the northern tip of the main wall or the northern walls?
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Have you got a 4x4
Cos there is lots of landbase fishing if you have colin
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No Steve
Hi Sherbert I wish I did have. No just a crappy old commodore. Yanchep lagoon might be as good as I get without a 4wd.
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hmmmmm yeah north it is, let
hmmmmm
yeah north it is, let me know when ya wanna do a mission, ill be keen on it :P
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That would be great
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i went out with dad last
i went out with dad last night down at city beach groyne but it ses no fishing from 7pm through till 6am wich is weird but went up the coast trying different spots but it was too windy
stopped off at floreat drain and some people werew fishing but without luck checked out scarboro and trigg. at trigg the water was rite up to the boat ramp wich i havnt seen for along time and there was a photo shoot going on so we couldnt fish trigg. too packed at hillarys and we didnt take a light so its a deadly combination. was thinking about bennion beach and those various bays along the coast and the wind would probly be blocked out-----supposedly good for tailor
trying tonight dunno were though
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Good on ya Col for sticking
Good on ya Col for sticking it out, even if the highlight was a but jacked lil skip.
As usual, the guys are in with good advice :)
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Thanks Col
Hopefully I will have better luck tonight. At least the wind looks a bit better.
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