Fisherman: Davistiano, Steven, Peggy Ng
Location: Deep Creek Conservation Park – Blowhole Beach
Time: 25/12/2010, from 12:00pm to 5:00pm
Condition:
Weather – sunny
Temperature – 35 degree C
Tide – N/A
Wind – 22km/h S
Observation:
Although the temperature is high, but surprisingly it was not hot at all
– probably because of the wind
Supposingly South wind should ruin Blowhole Beach fishing activity,
however the wind was just alright to let us feel cool and comfortable.
As usual, not many people in Blowhole beach, however I need to point out that how much difference the Forester made in this trip compare to our fishing trip in 2008!
It was simply SUPERB!
We never thought Blowhole beach was that close – Davistiano was driving Forester on the dirt road at about 60km/h,
and after entered the “4WD ONLY” section,
it was still a piece of cake for the Forester!
Great credit to Steven! 😀
Action:
Very busy fishing day, all of us keep hooking up fish – tiny, moderate, slightly larger, legal size…
Steven and Davistiano used float fishing gear with Liberty and Holiday ISO respectively.
Peggy used Noel’s Liberty ISO with dropshot setup.
Considering Peggy’s experience in fishing, she managed to constantly hooking up fish –
dropshot was very effective, while float was a bit slow in terms of the “bait sinking speed” as there was
simply too many fish and active down there. 🙂
Learnt from the experience from fishing in
Second Valley last time
(that we simply were dehydrated and
low blood sugar level),
we have learnt to bring a cool bag with full of
cold drinks inside (more importantly Gatorade),
which has made the day beautifully alongside with all the food we have brought. 😛
We have managed to catch Rock Cod, Zebra, Leather Jacket and MoonLight.
We have used 2 spots – before and after going around the rock –
started with the same spot as in 2008,
and end up back to the front which turns out to be much better
Peggy caught a big Leather Jacket after hooking a number of small fish,
unfortunately she hooked the fish literally 2 seconds after Dave hooked a Zebra
and was receiving help from Steven using the net.
Dave’s left hand held onto his own rod while right hand helped Peggy to hold her rod to try
land the Leather Jacket on some rock.
Sadly the Leather Jacket managed to break away from the hook and was lying on the rock
– disappeared in 2 seconds when the wave comes in.
After a while, Dave caught a similar size and same colour of Leather Jacket – Revenge maybe? 😛
And for monster, Dave hooked onto something with great power and was simply “impossible to fight back” and broke the line after 3 seconds.
Style:
ISO with float and dropshot
Catch & Release:
~Zebra fish x4 by Steven and Dave
~Rock cod x3 by Steven
~Leather Jacket x2 by Dave (Big one is 29cm)
~15cm Sweep by Peggy (released)
~Moonlight x1 by Steven
