savit Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 After almost 4 months without fishing, and a few recent forum wading topics/posts, I decided to wet a line and feet on Sat morning in my regular Sydney estuary. The beginning (perhaps fish still slept 🤔) was very quiet, and I have gone through a fist of small topwater, sinking HBs and some SPs without any action. Then wind picked up and fun has started! Some - missed, some lost, some landed. Only one legal though - 36cm whiting. All was caught on 2 micro poppers - the rest was ignored. 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 The effort paid off with some action after a long break. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Great report. Well done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Hornet Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Sounds like a productive little session and a 36cm whiting is a great fish. Well done. It's always good to have a bit of wind chopping up the surface. More important than dawn or dusk IMO. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordoRetired Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Always fun when a plan come together, even if it did take some time before they started hitting your lures. Well done 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savit Posted January 23, 2021 Author Share Posted January 23, 2021 7 minutes ago, Green Hornet said: Sounds like a productive little session and a 36cm whiting is a great fish. Well done. It's always good to have a bit of wind chopping up the surface. More important than dawn or dusk IMO. Thanks mate. I dont fish dusks or dawns (and probably miss a lot), however at nights - if wind or rain starts in the middle of lure session for bread and butter species - I can start packing my stuff - otherwise it will be just a casting practice. Whiting is mostly just a bycatch at night for me on lures. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickles Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Great work Savit, great to get out after a long break.- thanks for sharing, that’s a healthy looking whiting. I’ve had a bit of success over sand flats with a small clear / yellow “sugar pen”, but only when it’s windy - seems to give them confidence and maybe brings prawns off the bottom. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenno64 Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Great post and nice whiting there...the wind was your friend:) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazatherfisherman Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Great you got out fishing Andrew and good to catch a few fish! Nice pictures also and thumbs up for the wind for once! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savit Posted January 24, 2021 Author Share Posted January 24, 2021 22 minutes ago, Pickles said: Great work Savit, great to get out after a long break.- thanks for sharing, that’s a healthy looking whiting. I’ve had a bit of success over sand flats with a small clear / yellow “sugar pen”, but only when it’s windy - seems to give them confidence and maybe brings prawns off the bottom. Yep, a bit of break - really hope I wont have any of those soon. I am still trying to locate some of my lures - some chance popular Sugar Pen is already in my "collection", otherwise I will start from the most close design next time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centrepin Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 Great post. So nice to hear of others chasing on the top. Much appreciated Geoff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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