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Sunday, 21 September 2008

Recon trip

Lake Conjola kangaroos are like furry people

Steve and I decided to do a recon trip to Lake Conjola on Saturday, partly to explore it's potential as a kayak fishing destination. We were also considering showing up to participate in the bream fishing tournament scheduled to be held there the following day. It was pretty obvious as soon as we got there that it was going to be a top spot for kayaking. We didn't have the kayaks with us today, although we did have Steve's new Ranger V188 tournament fishing boat. It made for an excellent platform from which to explore the area, where we found a lot of potential fishing spots. When we first got there we spotted numerous fish in the water, including bream, tailor and blackfish. It wasn't long before their numbers became sparse, with an incoming tide seemingly forcing them to take cover.

We were targetting bream specifically, using ultra light tackle to cast a plethora of lures, from crankbait blades, sx40s, sx48s, storm, squidgy and gulp soft plastics. Not a bream was raised in the few hours we were there. I only managed to catch a single tailor. Matters weren't helped by a thick splattering of sea weed drifting along in the current, foul hooking our lures most casts. Despite spotting good numbers of fish early, conditions weren't great for fishing the lake and we figured the following day wouldn't be much different, so we decided to give the tourney a miss.

Lake Conjola. Bream, blackfish, tailor in the lake, salmon on the beach

On the way out, however, we passed by a small zodiak with a couple of spear-fishoes on board. They had some rather juicy salmon aboard, which they said were caught just beyond the breakers on the main beach. Ah... Aussie salmon... I miss catching them so much. Sambos are one of the best pound for pound fish in Australian waters and catching them from a kayak is an absolute blast. Getting out to that backbeach by paddling through the mouth of the lake (launching from the boat ramp at the Conjola caravan park) would be a pretty simple affair I reckon, especially on an outgoing tide. You can already guess where my next fishing report is going to come from. Unless weather thwarts me (like it did today), I'll be fishing that beach next Saturday. After seeing the fish I was shown, I'm expecting big things.