Day 2 - Friday 28/09

Another night with no mulloway, and another early start in wet and windy conditions. Dad and I went out and headed down towards Taylor’s Straight. Quite quickly, I managed a tiny bream and then 2 very small EP’s. It’s good to see so many juvenile fish around – Surely this is a good sign for the system! We went back to the car that was parked at Donovan’s Landing, and drove to Nelson where we re-launched. Dad hit the scoreboard with a 32cm bream, an upgrade for him. 

I followed this with a couple of EP’s at 34cm each and we headed to the mouth. As the tide was incoming some really nice blue water was coming upstream, but it was way too exposed with frequent squalls and driving rain. We went back around the corner to opposite the ramp and I snagged a nice 32cm perch. 

We went back in when Paul arrived and had a coffee and got some bigger plastics from the shop, however the owner warned us that there was a lot of water between mulloway at the moment. Back out there the fishing was slow, and despite a lot of casts we only got some small bream.

When another storm hit we went back to the ramp. Then we drove the boat up to Dry Creek to check it out, and we launched the boat to moor it at the shack. After the storm had passed we went out again for the afternoon session, however not only was the fishing incredibly slow (Dad got a tiny bream and that was it for a couple of hours) it was also very windy and every few minutes driving rain would pour in. We decided this was a sign and called it a day to head to the pub for dinner, where we found that even they couldn't get any mulloway so it was off the menu!