First flick in a long time

[Ryder]

I've fished almost exclusively for blackfish for over a year now. I remember my last flick was with Gianni at Iron Cove, NYE 2014.

After a tough week at work, overtime, and early fishing on the weekend I wasn't going to make the 4:30 am start today.

I decided to dust off the plastics rod, and head down to Tarban for the runout tide. The water was brown, like the Lane Cove was yesterday, still a lot of fresh water around. The wind was up a bit and I started with Bassday Sugapen. I worked it and paused hoping for bream, I got a few follows and a strike or 2 from tiny fish, but no takes.

I switched over to plastics. It's been so long, some of the Gulps had completely dried out, and others had gone mouldy. So I tried a 4 inch Powerbait minnow. Casting around the drop off at the mouths of the creek, I got a few small hits, the BANG. I'm on, not a huge fish but it put up a fight taking a bit of line.

I got him to the wall, grabbed the leader and made the lift. He spat the hook mid air along with his lunch and landed on the grass at my feet.

A quick measure, a snap and he went back in. 47cm

It was good to wipe away the cobwebs.

Cheers

Ryder

[DYMAN]

Well done Ryder, it`s always good to change it up from time to time, it helps break the monotony and help realise there is other species besides the Blackfish :-)

[Stapo]

Nice one Andrew. It's a lot more work flicking those plastics than watching that float. Both are good fun.

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[rasskl]

Plenty of good Flats around there at the moment Ryder.
I'm also struggling to get some of those bigger bream to hit though