Day out
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 8:22 pm
Went for a bit of a fish today with big tides to a culvert on the Bajool to Port Alma Rd.
The culvert gets fed from 2 directions on a big i'coming tide.
Creek A I/c tide(red) arrives at culvert after a 27km leisurely flow from Port Alma.
Creek B i/c tide (yellow) arrives at culvert after a bit of a winding journey (38k) from Port Alma 1 hour after the tide from creek A.
As A tide is rising and B is an hour later, flow under culvert goes from A to B.
When A reaches high tide, the flow from B is an hour behind so as A tide drops the flow remains A to B even though the tide from A is dropping and that from B is still rising.
About half an hour after A has been dropping and B has been rising, the flow stops (for about 10 minutes) as the water levels at ends of culvert are equal.
Then flow under culvert reverses and flow from B to A.
That's when it gets interesting and after about 1.5 hours we have this.
Flow is from B to A (right to left on image) and as it comes out of the culvert pipes (3 of 'em at about 600mm diameter) it flows over the rock base of the culvert.
Plonked myself on the rocks and fished into this with a gold bomber which I'd painted the top half fluro red longitudely.
Good old shallow gold and fluro red bomber for that sort of water.
First barra 57cm on 3rd cast.
Second barra 63cm on cast 10.
Third barra I couldn't stop for love or money on cast 14. Using a old Loomis CB 756 with locked up baitcasting reel on max drag and thumbing.
Fish went down from culvert towards creek A, around the bend and mangroves. Down the channel shown on the top RHS of the image. Tiger country down that way.
Kept going taking my repainted gold bomber with it.
Only had that hardbody so tried some soft plastics for a while for no hits so drove home.
The culvert gets fed from 2 directions on a big i'coming tide.
Creek A I/c tide(red) arrives at culvert after a 27km leisurely flow from Port Alma.
Creek B i/c tide (yellow) arrives at culvert after a bit of a winding journey (38k) from Port Alma 1 hour after the tide from creek A.
As A tide is rising and B is an hour later, flow under culvert goes from A to B.
When A reaches high tide, the flow from B is an hour behind so as A tide drops the flow remains A to B even though the tide from A is dropping and that from B is still rising.
About half an hour after A has been dropping and B has been rising, the flow stops (for about 10 minutes) as the water levels at ends of culvert are equal.
Then flow under culvert reverses and flow from B to A.
That's when it gets interesting and after about 1.5 hours we have this.
Flow is from B to A (right to left on image) and as it comes out of the culvert pipes (3 of 'em at about 600mm diameter) it flows over the rock base of the culvert.
Plonked myself on the rocks and fished into this with a gold bomber which I'd painted the top half fluro red longitudely.
Good old shallow gold and fluro red bomber for that sort of water.
First barra 57cm on 3rd cast.
Second barra 63cm on cast 10.
Third barra I couldn't stop for love or money on cast 14. Using a old Loomis CB 756 with locked up baitcasting reel on max drag and thumbing.
Fish went down from culvert towards creek A, around the bend and mangroves. Down the channel shown on the top RHS of the image. Tiger country down that way.
Kept going taking my repainted gold bomber with it.
Only had that hardbody so tried some soft plastics for a while for no hits so drove home.