Hello to everyone

Well we are almost at the end of January and although the weather at first was a little on the wet side the rest of the month has held up and of course the fishing has been one to remember.
Over the past few weeks there have been a number of Tailor schools moving into the lake particularly in the Belmont Bay area. These fish have been caught both on the troll and by casting metal lures into the schools when they have been rising to the surface, metals around the 40 to 65 gram mark are working the best. Peter Sims and myself bagged a dozen on Saturday and my son Patrick and I landed 6 fish all around the 1 kg mark while having a swim on Sunday. The amount of bait fish around at the moment has been amazing and it has also brought a number of Kingfish in as well. They have shown a preference for live squid or surface poppers, the other bonus using live squid has seen a number of Mulloway around the 6 kg mark coming in as well. Last Sunday while we were out I saw something a little strange take off out of the water in front of us a small Flying fish I needed to do a double take on it but that’s what it was, must of came in with the warm water we had last week just goes to show you, you never know whats there now days.

Offshore has started to improve , well on the surface anyway with plenty of Bonito and small Kingfish all taken on lures, there are also a few Tailor and Salmon mixed in with them. The bottom fishing side of things has proven to be a lot harder with what appears to be a patch of cold water on the bottom but with the big ground swell we had over the past couple of days this might be the shake up it needed. There have been stacks of Flathead around so if things are a little slow try drifting on the outside of the reefs.

Have a good week.

Jason.