[JW]

Headed to barker inlet on Sunday, arriving at 7:30 (went home at 12). It was near the bottom of the tide and had to walk the kayak to get into the first creek (mouth is really shallow). Once I arrived I thought "this is great, there will be no one else around" was a good looking bit of water. Then I hear a heap of crashing and splashing heading towards me from up the creek.......2 dolphins had the same idea as me and were hunting and crashing around all my bream snags....needless to say I caught none in that 1st creek. The dolphins couldn’t leave till the tide came in……so I had to move….friendly fellas circled the kayak a few times.

Moved to some other creeks and caught 8 bream for the day with the biggest 34cm. Things were a bit quiet, but this is an area I definitely want to explore further (this was my first time here).

Wasn’t having much luck on the HB’s or gulp chamo worms (never had much luck on gulp chamo worms, but other people love em????). What worked for me was grub style plastics fished deep in the snags. Without a well-placed cast there wasn’t even a small chance of scoring a fish.

Sorry no photos.

 

[YakAtak]

Sounds like a bit of hard work mate, watching those dolphins would have been a hoot, and at least you got a few nice fish.

 

[RedPhoenix]

Unfortunately, due to the change in ownership of this web site and the lack of response by the owners to my requests to remove my email address from all administrative-level notifications and functionality, I have decided to remove my posts on AKFF. Thank you for the great times, the fantastic learning experiences and the many many fish. If you are desperate for the old content of this particular post, it is available below base64 encoded and bzip2 compressed.

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[Peril]

What a great day - dolphins and a few bream. I know 34cm is small by SA standard, but I wouldn't turn up my nose at that bag.

Good to see the old style plastics doing the trick. The 2" berkley grub in pumpkinseed (aka "The pooeater") still has a lot of fans. And 3" bass minnows are still my go to plastic.

Stick with the gulp sandworms. Its taken me a few pkts, but cutting them in two and fishing them ultraslow and light (1/32oz) has started paying dividends. New penny colour is worth a try.

 

[troppo]

Seeing dolphins like that would be totally awesome. And bream of that size I would be happy with. Good work JW.

 

[water_baby]

bad luck jayden. the whole system seems a bit hit and miss sometimes.

Seeing dolphins like that would be totally awesome.

troppo, seeing dolphins up your way might be fun, but the buggers are everywhere in this river system, scaring away all our fish. just when theyre gone, you think "beauty, fish will bite now" and other dolphins take their place.

cant imagine having dolphins in that little creek at low tide. wasnt heaps of water in it last time we went.

better luck next time

 

[JW]

Thanks Aaron

Was not that creek, was one on the east side......some good looking water over there.

catch ya

 

[water_baby]

ahhhh the eastern side. the place i intended to go before we settled on the torrens island creek...... interesting......

might have to sneak out before the sun comes up late next week and check out some of the more northern ones on the east side. launch at st kilda and work my way down.... hmmmm......decisions!!!

 

[JW]

BACK OFF.......thats mine, mine all mine......you'll have to find somewhere else to fish................ :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[water_baby]

Muhahahaha my doctor cleared me to go kayaking effective immediately!!!!!

ill work my roster out to allow for maximum impact on the local populations :lol: :lol: only allowed to work 16 hours a week, so that leaves HEAPS of time to paddlefish........

 

[fisher]

I know your tactics JW - its the old reverse psychology trick - you want us to think that this Torrens Island area is so fantastic that we won't ever go looking elsewhere in the port river......... where is your home turf???
you heading out this weekend? we might have a crack at some squid at seacliff in the morning. We were going to look at the West Lakes mullies tonight but that didn't turn out

 

[JW]

Ok, Ok, I guess I can cope with you guys fishing there ………….for now……… ………..does anyone know if you can purchase a waterproof shotgun mount for the kayak… :twisted: …I um…….er……want to shoot some rabbits that are eroding the creek banks……yep that’s what I want to do.. :twisted:

Good luck on the squid fisher, I was thinking of a morning session around swan alley……but need to get the wife’s permission first…..could go either way at this stage.

I’ve also heard that there are a few mullies around west lakes and the port, would be keen for a session.

In my limited experience, catching any species of fish requires:- 15% using the right gear, 50% up to date local knowledge, and 35% deception once you find a system that works. Aaron, with all that time on you hands, keep us informed mate………………just ignor that small point about deception above…..dosent count among yack fishers .