Kob on spoon ...

[Kenty]

Conditions for catching kob on spoon need to be pretty spot on and in recent times , say the last four years have not been "normal" and to top that , I , for one have not really gone fishing ...

But this past weekend , I noticed that things were lining up....water , tides , barometer reading and I know this trend all to well and as the saying goes , The TREND is your FRIEND...I go down to my spot on the Saturday early evening around 18h00 and it looks beaut...

About 10 throws into my session , I get an absolutely SOLID rattle ....another 5 throws and now the kobbie is on , properly ...BUT , I over react and the hook pulls out...

Sooo...a good hour passes and Im at my spot at 06h00 the next morning , conditions are now at their optimum and its about to change as the baro tops out and things go south again....

Im 4 throws in and Im ON...this morning Im ready steady eddy.....kobbie is landed , all of 60cm and into a high tife pool he goes...

A quick coffee to celebrate and Im on it again...another two throwa and Im on again....this time its a spicy kobbie...landed and touching the 75cm mark...

Well , well ...the trend of conditions wins everytime...

I left the kobbies on the bite as i was on door duty at Church that morning , so all in all a BRILLIANT morning gooiing lepel...

 

[Kenty]

Im watching the weather systems coming along the coast and Tuesday looks good . I nip off work at 16h30 and get down to my spot at 17h30 ...water looked absolutely "dead" ...not a bait fish in sight , no Jonny Dykers in the shallows ...NADA , ZILCH.....
I give a few throws and call it a day ...the low pressure was arriving sooner than anticipated...we look to the weekend and its a dark moon spring approaching....

 

[Kenty]

Just as a side note , these are the spoons I am throwing at the moment , for those interested...

As you look at the pic , the two on the right are my own design S shape spoon and out of tin , weight is 1.5 ounces ...

the other two are commercially available out of chromed metal , for testing newer areas and when the tide is getting a tad low during a session...

 

[Kenty]

Mornings , this is the position as of zero hundred hours today , so that cut of low has come n gone , some rain and a west that was short lived...


That cold front has probably made landfall in CT by now and we will feel the brunt of it , I suspect later today....


I think . fishing this weekend , is going to be about timing ...Saturday arvie through to Sunday early AM will be the window....

 

[dewalds]

Good to see you back Kenty!

Cant wait to read some proper reports!

 

[Kenty]

Good to see you back Kenty!

Cant wait to read some proper reports!

Yes , good stuff...

These conditions have been bothering me for awhile , but certainly will be throwing a bit more again ...

I remember my dad telling me that back in the 70s , there was a three year period that the fishing did not feel "normal" , Im sure that is what Ive experienced up here along my stretch of coast and after one weekend it just felt right , I know it sound weird ...BUT...its all bout going fishing...

 

[Kenty]

Update before I knock off for the day , ...that frontal system has now had "babies" and there is a cut off low in front of the main front , I believe CT is being lashed as we speak....

Its about timing this weekend....

 

[Kenty]

Been busy revamping a Jiggy High speed with the "heavy" aluminium spool for further casting , lovely old legend of a reel ..going to put it on a 11footer 1980s KF T43 ROD ....going to be my retro kob on spoon outfit....

 

[Kenty]

Well , this weekend tides were not really to my liking , I do like an early morning outgoing tide and over the years, have rarely hooked a kobbie in the middle of the day , probably in 20 odd years have only done it twice....
Saturday was a blowout for me at my spot and I watched as the barometer was rising , Sunday morning early was the window , but a high tide , so i bided my time and waited until 11h20 for low tide to hit and the wind had subsided ...BUT the baro had turned and was already dropping as the next low pressure was approaching...

As you see in the pic , the water was around 22 and not up at all , gin clear and no surge...

I threw for two hours , but not a touch , lots of bait fish in the water BUT , that dropping baro kept the kobbies away...
We keep one eye on the approaching weekend...