Extending westward it allows anglers to fish
the deeper water flowing in and out of the Swan. Both moles are ideal
places to target big fish, especially at night when mulloway,
snapper, sharks and rays can be hooked on large baits fished on heavy
tackle on the bottom. During the day spinning with Lures or bait
casting pilchards are popular ways to catch bonito and salmon during
the season, and tailor almost all year round. Every now and then an
angler gets a real shock from the tip of North Mole when a Spanish
mackerel takes a Bream Lure or Bass Lure intended for something else.
The rocks of these moles are well established reefs that attract a
huge number of species such as rock lobster, squid and cuttlefish,
and big silver trevally are a popular catch close to the rocks. Other
species like whiting, herring, garfish, yellow tail, blue mackerel,
flounder, bass lure and Flathead lure are all common catches, or
lighter tackle, from the rocks. The use of a barley cage rig is one
of the best ways to catch fish from the rocks - pollard and oil are
mixed and crushed into the barley cage above a small vennon hooks on
a leader and baited with cut prawn or maggots.
All fish are influenced by natural
elements, and these can include tide, moon phase, salinity, and
barometric pressure. But there are no set rules to what governs fish
movement and habits. The only way to gauge what natural event affects
fish is by keeping notes and establishing patterns, but before you
can do this, you must first understand what is happening. Successful
anglers have to learn how to read the signs, understand environment
change, and be prepared to adapt existing methods to suit the
circumstances on a given day. There is an order of efficiency in
fishing that sees some methods produce consistently better results
than others do. As a rule thumb, i rate live bait more productive
than dead bait, lures, or flies. Sometimes the scenario reverses
itself. Bream lure inhaling respects from the surface are unlikely to
find a fresh nipper attractive. The same fish are more likely to
attack a baitfish imitation bass lure rather than a dry fly when they
are skulking in mid-water around an oyster lease.
A confluence of current where baitfish
are likely to be swept out of control is a likely feeding area for
predators so you would offer up a baitfish imitation or a live bait
in the scenario. Take snapper. These fish are opportunistic feeders
and when the school moves in over mud in 10 m of water, they are most
likely to be scavenging an easy feed. Madeye Lures and flies are
unlikely to work in that scenario: a fresh fish fillet is the best
option. The same fish off the rocks can be different again. A berley
trail fed into a wash attracts all sorts of fish, snapper among them.
Reds are usually well away from the rocks and down deeper so to catch
them you toss a fillet out and allow it to sink down under the wash.
Sometimes a Flathead Lure brought in at mid-water through the wash
also produces results.
Anglers who achieve consistent success
fishing estuaries and streams often have an acute sense of awareness
in what to look for. The key ingredients to success, just as
important as offering up the right bream lure or bass lure, is the
ability to read the water and spot the tell-table signposts of snags
or weed beds, perhaps the odd wink of fish, and then understand what
is happening. Fish aren't very difficult to find if you know where to
start looking. Take a basic scenario like sangs, or structures as
some people prefer to call them. Structures come in lots of shapes
and sizes. They can be sunken trees, boulders, rusting car bodies or
shipwrecks. From the fish's point of view, these provide ambush
points to prounce on any morsels that happen by. At the same time,
the cover offers a haven from larger predators. Fish that make good
use of this sort of cover include Murray cod, yellowbelly, trout and
bream lure.
However, before you know what to look
for you first have to be able to see and the best way to look into
the water is via a good pair of polarizing sunglasses. These days it
is hard to find a serious angler who doesn't have at least one pair
of polarizing glasses; some have two or three pairs with different
lens shades to suit conditions. An alternative is the photo chromic
lenses that adjust to suit varying light conditions. Offshore anglers
use polarizing glasses to spot current lines, rocks, reefs, and
sandbars. When trolling, polarizing glasses take the glint off the
water and allow you to see fish making an inquiry on a Flathead lure.
Even on dull days, the glasses reveal the shadow of a fish, as it
will have a slightly darker color tone to the water.
Spinning or lure casting has been
around for more than 100 years. Working light tackle and lures in the
2-4 kg range is one of the neatest ways there is to fish. Go into any
tackle store these days and the chances are you will see at least one
wall almost completely covered in fishing soft plastics lures. Many of
lures will look strikingly similar in shape, but the colors will
vary. Spinning is big business. Guess one of the incentives for
growth in spinning has been the availability of cheaper soft plastic
lure. There was a time when buying a lure was verging on the
ridiculous, particularly the brands imported from Europe and North
America. Apart from exchange rates and tax, the other problem was the
tyranny of distance that has long been a bugbear with both exporters
and importers.
These days there are Australian-made
lures that are the equal of any of the imported brands. As well,
there has been a growth in developing lures here and sending them to
Asia for manufacture. There is a downside though. At a fishing soft plastics tackle trade show in one Asian country, a soft plastic lure
maker was offering to sell copies of a well-known Australian
freshwater lure at less than one-third of our manufacturing costs.
And the price fell even further if you wanted to buy in bulk. Even
with the use of cheaper labor in Asia though, http://lurehq.com.au/
still baulk at the price of many lures, which believe are sold on
their name, not necessarily their ability to attract more strikes.
In the early days, fishing soft
plastics lures were most popular in fresh water and later advanced to
the saltwater scene. The first lures were bladed types and these, or
their derivatives are still available today. The Celta bladed lures
are a prime example, while the Spinner-baits, which combine a blade
and a plastic skirt, are an extension of that development. It was
much later that solid metal lures, floating minnow lures and soft
plastic lure came on the market. Some lure have reached icon status
among the converted.
Baitcasting and threadline outfits are
the norm, Many anglers prefer to run monofilament leaders with braid,
or else have adopted Knotted Dog leaders to use in conjunction with
braid. The Knotted Dog Leaders are an innovation of noted Rod
Harrison, and are designed to give a tougher terminal end to the line
as well as some stretch, both features that all braids lack. In a
boat, the fishing technique is to drift slowly, casting fishing soft plastics lures into snags, at any bank indentations beneath
low-lying, shady overhanging trees or likely lies on weed beds and
flats. In some of the most productive areas, snags, in the from of
sunken logs, lie hidden just below the surface. When not working
floating soft plastic lure in heavy country, you start the retrieve
as soon as the lure sink too far you will hook on a snag and maybe
even lose the fishing lure.
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