Strike comes up short How to catch a short striking barramundi? Barramundi #926-929 SQUIDGIES FISH

THE sea was very wavy in my fishing locations.

Muddy waves of water were beating the shores.
I could only go to an urban creek to fish.
I didn’t expect a nice sized fish today.
So I took an ultra light fishing tackle there.

This ultra light spinning rod was given by my very good friend, Chonga.
Rod: ST.CROIX AVID/AVS66LF2 4-8LB 1/16-1/4oz. Fast action

Reel: SHIMANO SUSTAIN 1000FG
It’s a very tough 1000 sized spinning reel with a very smooth winding.

I was casting out and retrieving the soft plastic shad bait.
I used a Squidgy Fish in Drop Bear colour with a stop and go action.


Fish tended to bite the tail of the lure and miss the hook.
Short striking fish were in the water.
First, I couldn’t hook them up.
That was when I loosened a lot of drag pressure.
This allowed the fish to hang on to the lure when it struck the tail, so I could hook the short-striking fish.
After all, I caught and released four very small barramundi at the urban creek location.

Barramundi #926

Barramundi #927

Barramundi #928

Barramundi #929


SQUIDGIES FISH


Colour: DROP BEAR

Size: 80mm

Where: Shallow water 30cm -70cm

Water: Murky Outgoing

Line: Sufix 832 10LB Braid

Leader: TRIUMPH SUPER SHOCK LEADER 30LB (Very nice for the shallows)

Knot: The Slim Beauty Knot

Hook: OWNER 1/6oz. #1/0 Jighead

Reel: SHIMANO SUSTAIN 1000FG

Rod: ST.CROIX  AVID/AVS66LF2 4-8LB 1/16-1/4oz. Fast action

Clip: FORCE TEN STAINLESS DUO LOCK SNAPS #2

Action: Stop and go

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Mosquitoes were buzzing all around. Barramundi #925 SQUIDGY PRO MONGREL

I was itchy after getting bit by mosquitoes the other night.

I went fishing at night again.

Mosquitoes were buzzing all around.

I caught a very small barramundi.

After all I was bitten in seven places by mosquitoes again.

I gave up fishing at that time.

January 21, 2015 Barramundi

Land based, Darwin, NT, Australia

SQUIDGY PRO MONGREL


Colour: AUSSIE HERRING

Size: 90mm

Where: Shallow water 30cm -50cm

Water: Murky Outgoing

Line: Sufix 832 15LB Braid

Leader: TRIUMPH SUPER SHOCK LEADER 30LB (Very nice for the shallows)

Knot: The Slim Beauty Knot

Hook: OWNER 1/6oz. #1/0 Jighead

Reel: SHIMANO STELLA 2500FE

Rod: Wilson LIVE FIBRE Sport fishing SERIES BLADE 'N' TAILS

Clip: FORCE TEN STAINLESS DUO LOCK SNAPS #2

Action: Stop and go

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2015's first barramundi #923-924 and mangrovejack #43 SQUIDGIES FISH

This year's first barramundi and mangrovejack of mine were caught tonight.
Mosquitoes were very bad there.
Unfortunately, I was bitten by 20 mosquitoes.
There will be a large infestation of mosquitoes this year.
That means that more barramundi will come to our fishing locations.

January 20, 2015 Barramundi #923
Land based, Darwin, NT, Australia

Barramundi #924

Mangrovejack #43

SQUIDGIES FISH


Colour: DROP BEAR

Size: 80mm

Where: Shallow water 30cm -70cm

Water: Murky Outgoing

Line: Sufix 832 15LB Braid

Leader: TRIUMPH SUPER SHOCK LEADER 30LB (Very nice for the shallows)

Knot: The Slim Beauty Knot

Hook: OWNER 1/6oz. #1/0 Jighead

Reel: SHIMANO STELLA 2500FE

Rod: Wilson LIVE FIBRE Sport fishing SERIES BLADE 'N' TAILS

Clip: FORCE TEN STAINLESS DUO LOCK SNAPS #2

Action: Stop and go

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Get Smart on Sewage

A tuna from Stokes Hill Wharf in the 1990s. Picture: HIRO NAKAMURA

There were many schools of longtail tuna in front of Stokes Hill Wharf at the very beginning of the 1990's. 
I used to easily catch some longtail tuna on lure there.

The seawater was sometimes transparent like glass.
I could see many groups of nice-sized fish swimming in the water, whether I could catch them on lures or not.
I think that it was a very healthy sea.

Did you see any schools of longtail tuna from the jetty these days?
Also, I haven’t seen many schools of mullet swimming on the sea surface around the shores near Mindil Beach, Fannie Bay and East Point since 2011.

On the other hand, the seawater is still in some places maintained under a healthy condition in Darwin Harbour.

We might depend too much on the self-cleaning function caused by the large tidal movements around Darwin.

I received the following email from a reader of my blog:

“Hi Hiro,

I have been fishing Darwin Harbour for 20 years this year, the last seven have been spent land-based fishing mainly between Lee Point and Fanny Bay – similar to you.

“I have noticed too a marked drop-off in the numbers of fish in this area for the last 3-4 years for example 4-5 years ago it was not uncommon to go out and catch my bag limit of legal-sized barra.
“
It was not uncommon to tangle with meter+ ones either – not recently....

“For what it’s worth here is what I think is wrong. In a word – sewerage.

“The poorly treated sewage being released from East Point and Buffalo Creek is feeding toxic algal blooms which are driving away the fish – not killing them, just driving them away, which might explain why the barra fishing in the Harbour overall has been good the last few years.

“Last year the blooms were the worst I have seen. Consider this – in the last 3-4 years all the sewage that used to be pumped off Larrakeyah has been diverted to Ludmilla, which means all that s*** now ends up on our fishing flats.

“The new suburb of Lyons is adding additional load to an already overloaded Buffalo Creek system as well.

“I don’t remember beaches being shut before due to ecoli either.

“Let’s be clear – the algal blooms are natural events but the sewage acts like fertiliser making them much, much worse.

“The Government know about this but don’t want to spend the money to bring our system up to scratch, it’s 2015, and a capital city of Australia still has third-world water treatment facilities – it’s a bloody embarrassment.

“I think we need to make as much noise as possible and get the Government to fix this problem before things get any worse.”

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The environment of the urban small creeks that surrounds changed?

Rain brings on changes

Changes in the environment are affecting my regular fishing spots.
The monsoon basically pours benefits upon us for barramundi fishing.
On the other hand, it’s the very wavy-sea season.
It’s a very difficult time to catch a sea barramundi around Darwin.
There was a solution to that before 2013 in my fishing locations.
I could catch some nice-sized sea barramundi at an urban small creek location in the rainy season in those days.
As an example, the 78cm sea barramundi pictured was caught at an urban small creek.
However, I haven’t been catching many nice-sized sea barramundi there recently.
I can see more soil and sand accumulated on the shore of the sea and the urban small creek bed after having been carried there by wind or water.
There are more shallow waters than before there.
A large amount of monsoon rainwater washes a large amount of soil and sand away from the shore, but large amounts of soil and sand are also deposited on the shore again after the rainy season.
I have noticed that the shores of the sea, including the urban small creeks, were getting shallower in my fishing locations year by year.
Someone told me even sailfish used to be caught (land-based?) at East Point in the old days, but I am not sure if this is true.
As an example,

78cm sea barramundi was caught at the urban small creek in 2011.

However, I haven’t been catching many nice-sized sea barramundi there recently.
I can see more soil and sand accumulated on the shore of the sea and the urban small creek bed after having been carried there by wind or water.
There are more shallow waters than before there.
A large amount of monsoon rainwater washes a large amount of soil and sand away from the shore, but large amounts of soil and sand are also deposited on the shore again after the rainy season.
I have noticed that the shores of the sea, including the urban small creeks, were getting shallower in my fishing locations year by year.
Someone told me even sailfish used to be caught (land-based?) at East Point in the old days, but I am not sure if this is true.

市街地の小さな海水の川を取り巻く環境は変わったのでしょうか？

私はその環境の変化に対応できないでいます。
基本的にモンスーンはバラマンディーフィッシングに恵みをもたらします。一方でその時期は波が荒い季節でもあるのです。海でバラマンディーを釣るのには厳しいものがあります。まあそうは言っても私の釣り場において２０１３年以前はやりようがありました。市街地の小さな海水の川や海水の池の入り口で良型のバラマンディーを雨季に釣っていたのです。例えば７８ｃｍのバラマンディーとか市街地の小さな海水の川で釣っていました。しかしこの頃は良型のバラマンディーをそこではとんと釣っていないのです。
そして予想を超えた大量の土砂が風や水によって運ばれて海岸や市街地の小さな海水の川底に堆積しているのを見かけます。そこでは以前より浅瀬が多くなっています。大量のモンスーンによる降雨は大量の土砂を海岸から洗い流しますが雨季が過ぎれば再び大量の土砂が海岸に堆積していきます。漸く気付いたのですが市街地の小さな海水の川を含む海岸は年々浅くなっているのです。
この話の信憑性は分かりませんが、昔はイーストポイントで（陸から？まさか）バショウカジキですら釣れたらしいですよ。

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