03-02-2011, 09:33 AM
I must say Ruksta that your Abalone tribal pink was the correct choice - and confirms my thoughts that darker jigs work best ( at least in my experience). After about 2 hours and lots of garlic spray, I ditched the mega bass in frustration. Does anyone know what is happening with the closure of queenscliff? Is it just a rumour or is it real? I tried to google further details but could not find anything. Will be devastated if the pier closes again.
On a final note - how have people been finding the fishing at queenscliff this season since it opened? I have found it rather slow. Would be interesting to know if anyone has done any better.
[quote name='Ruksta' timestamp='1296644912' post='21528']
Hi all at Squidfish. I am new to this forum so bare with me. I met up with Colossal(old school/fishing mate) at Queenscliff pier on the 25/01 7.30pm and the whole pier on the right side was jammed with squid poles all the way to the shed. Most of them were using whiting and the majority had at least 1 or 2 inkers in the bag, nothing spectacular. I wasn't looking forward to rubbing shoulders so I decided to give my brand new Megabass 2.9 abalone tribal pink a cast on the left side which was empty. I ended up with my first inker within 20min. My mate Midgie dropped a good one at his feet on a $2 jig. Not much else was going on with the rest of the pier then just before dark I had a cast at the pylons towards the shed and got another one but as I retrieved it I realised there was another 6-8 follow it back to my feet. They were really aggressive and I ended up getting 6 of them in the next 2min before all the poles started to swing over to my side of the pier. Only 2 more got caught during that short frenzy. I ended up with 8 in total for the night which I thought was okay but the heavy drizzle seemed to scare most of the hardcores away. No scents were used but I keep some stimulate just in case fishing is tough and I keep the retrieve dead slow. The darker megabass did all the damage and Colossal's white tribal red stayed a virgin. Look forward to catching up again with you (Colossal) before Queenscliff closes, again. Jeez what a pain.
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On a final note - how have people been finding the fishing at queenscliff this season since it opened? I have found it rather slow. Would be interesting to know if anyone has done any better.
[quote name='Ruksta' timestamp='1296644912' post='21528']
Hi all at Squidfish. I am new to this forum so bare with me. I met up with Colossal(old school/fishing mate) at Queenscliff pier on the 25/01 7.30pm and the whole pier on the right side was jammed with squid poles all the way to the shed. Most of them were using whiting and the majority had at least 1 or 2 inkers in the bag, nothing spectacular. I wasn't looking forward to rubbing shoulders so I decided to give my brand new Megabass 2.9 abalone tribal pink a cast on the left side which was empty. I ended up with my first inker within 20min. My mate Midgie dropped a good one at his feet on a $2 jig. Not much else was going on with the rest of the pier then just before dark I had a cast at the pylons towards the shed and got another one but as I retrieved it I realised there was another 6-8 follow it back to my feet. They were really aggressive and I ended up getting 6 of them in the next 2min before all the poles started to swing over to my side of the pier. Only 2 more got caught during that short frenzy. I ended up with 8 in total for the night which I thought was okay but the heavy drizzle seemed to scare most of the hardcores away. No scents were used but I keep some stimulate just in case fishing is tough and I keep the retrieve dead slow. The darker megabass did all the damage and Colossal's white tribal red stayed a virgin. Look forward to catching up again with you (Colossal) before Queenscliff closes, again. Jeez what a pain.
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