Winner, winner, chicken dinner! The Canberra Native Cup wrapped up last Thursday night with Paul Trembearth taking out first prize in a very hard night’s fishing.
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Second prize – and for the first time in Canberra on the Water history – a junior angler came up trumps; Kody Gabriel cleaned up in the under 16 category and also took second in the open.
Mick Kochy took out third and only by the narrowest of margins.
Huge congratulations to all anglers that made the final, in what was the most difficult comp so far in LBG. The fish just did not read the memo!
At Googong the fish are playing the game.
Over the past few weeks it has produced some of the best, biggest and fattest yellow that I've seen – almost worth giving up the five hour drive west to catch yellows (I'm staying right here!).
Two very popular methods have been casting vibes or lipless cranks into the structure with a slow retrieve. Some anglers are purposely bouncing the lure against the submerged trees to entice a strike, others are using the sounders to find the schools, then vertical jig. Soft vibes and silent cranks have been very productive.
The colder nights we have been experiencing lately have done wonders for the mountain lakes.
Jindabyne has been average fishing, but Tantangara reserve and Lake Eucumbene have both been great.
Yabby meat, scrub worms and Power-bait have all been working well in the early morning for bait fishos, but the real action is flicking lures in the shallows dawn and dusk.
On the coast not much has changed.
Kingfish and marlin action is still hot, even a pretty good tuna bite is taking place with yellow fin to 50kg, strippies and even a 218kg pacific blue caught last week. Still plenty of dolphin fish around the FADs and flathead remain an easy option for a feed.
Do you have a hot tip of fish biting or a happy snap from your last session? Shoot me a line at fishing@my2hooks.net.
