Ormiston weedbeds are productive...

[Peter4]

Kyle and I ditched work to hit the Ormiston weedbeds on Monday afternoon last week. We had a good session, bagging 10 bream and 5 tailor, but I didn’t take any pics or post a report. Braving the last day of school holidays, we decided to try again yesterday (Sunday) afternoon on the low tide rather than the high tide.

The ramp was busy at 1.00pm but we lucked out finding a gap in the queue, a close carpark and launching after 5 or so minutes. We headed south of our usual spots to hit an exposed low tide point (we call it Tailor Point) around rubble ground and a shallow reef. My surface lure was smashed by a good tailor after about ten casts but he pulled the hooks before I could net him. Kyle then got a good (32cm) bream on his flutterstick.

I threw out my flutterstick and ended up with three good bream, including a 36cm stonker, in as many casts. It went quiet for a while so we headed north to our favourite weedbeds. On arrival we could see nervous water marking many bait schools but all were in around 50cm of water. We decided to give surface lures a crack and Kyle’s small roosta popper immediately gets smashed by a good tailor. A strong but short fight and I slide the net under a 46cm specimen. I persisted with the flutterstick and managed another two bream.

As the tide started to come in and the water deepened, we started getting some savage hits on fluttersticks but no hook ups. Finally Kyle stayed connected to one, which to our surprise, turned out to be a big dusky flathead of 64cm. Soon after I got one of exactly the same size, covered in weed.

Kyle then finished off our day with a PB bay tailor of 50cm and another dusky of around 50cm.

We came in at last light in very calm conditions.

A great short afternoon session on the bay…

Cheers

Pete & Kyle