Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Life lessons, another trip to the flounder flats this evening …bit a pieces of crew…some unfortunately are at sea , others looked at the weather and bailed out ..

then there are the souls that just keep turning up keen as every bloody time…thanks guys!

So we arrived as we do , with myself doing the intel on the tides , picking to get to fish the very last of the ebb tide as stingray season is here. Well that worked perfectly except that once again , the ebb tide ran out but the water remained once again on a very low tide ..so perhaps things have changed down stream?

Anyway we set to fishing ..testing the waters down stream of our normal hot spot due to the wide channels and the fact that I’ve being told to much fresh water puts the fish off , then I got told that flounder like the fresh/ tepid water because it kills the lice that live in their gills etc ..

Well any way we dragged the wides and felt a few hits so thought that we were doing ok. ..beached the net to find 8 outstanding fish snagged in the trawl …well that did the light a fire under our arses …a quick clean out back into the a bit of a wander saw us land another handful of average keepers and a few shorts and a heap of sticks and cockles etc …

So with that we sent Roktoy and his net up stream to a nice clean looking bend in the channel , Roktoy and my neighbour fished the first bit of the flood but pulled out early!

With a net pretty free of weed and crap myself and the import set out again , and with a flooding tide pushing hard we felt the odd hit …surprisingly we had a short angry man hurling abuse at us about it being his net , his spot , that we were drinking his beer etc …all the while his son and two dogs dug a feed of cockles ..

Well we hauled the drag as the flood spilled over the estuary to find a bounty of wonderfully conditioned fish, a good number of delicious flats were binned and cleaned ..everyone doing their bit from gutting to tiding up the net ..then with dry ground becoming a rarity we waded our way back to the trucks.

The rain set in as we changed into dry cloths , the catch was shared out to those that had family and friends that would appreciate a fresh flounder and away home to a hot shower.