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| Stonewalled at Hervey Bay | | Print | |
| Monday, 17 September 2007 | ||||
A bit too blowy for kayak fishing the prime spotsThe past few days have been a bit blowy here at Hervey Bay, with northerly winds reaching 20 knots at times. This has forced me to seek out sheltered areas, which has been pretty easy to do. Unfortunately, this has made most of the fish shut down somewhat and it's made my last couple of trips relatively uneventful. The first one was a quick paddle around the Mary River Heads (beautiful spot) and I soon found that the estuary was a little murky, producing only a couple of small Flathead. I did paddle out into the bay itself, but with an oncoming north easterly hitting up against an outgoing tide the water was just too choppy to fish comfortably.  This Pike fell for a Berkley sand worm soft plastic Yesterday I launched from the Great Sandy Straight Marina, which I found to be an excellent spot to dip a kayak, due largely to the various boat ramps on offer. Protected by a large breakwall the water here was really very calm but I decided to paddle out into the bay anyway. Waters were rougher here of course, although I found refuge by paddling around to the southern side. I made my way to Pulgul creek from here, trolling a coupe of hard-body lures along the way. Unfortunately my timing wasn't great and with the tide going out I found the creek mouth a bit too shallow for further exploration. I did pick up a couple of Pike along the way back, but nothing to write home about. Neither trip inspired me to cobble together a full report, although the recon should prove valuable for my final Hervey Bay destination report. Use mouse wheel to scroll zoom Although the weather reports suggest more of the same for today I've just woken to find conditions surprisingly calm. I was planning to spend today installing Windows XP over the god-awful Windows Vista OS that this new laptop came with (which will take the better part of the day), as well as doing some much needed house-cleaning on the site. I've got a fair few chores to get out of the way so I'll probably fill today doing just that. This will include updating the links section, the gear list, cleaning out some of the older images that were initially put here as placeholders and more. Oh, I'm thinking about going on a whale watching tour as well - there's only so long I can bear to stare at a computer screen these days.    
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