Haven't not been for a proper fish in a while, and with still a few months untill my annual'ish trip up north, i was starting to get a little toey.
The day turned out to be a stunner so i grabbed the gear and headed down to the bell tower for a bit of a flick.
The water clarity was alot better then i expected, and i opted for a zip-bait rigge45-s and sent out a few casts and twitched them back to the bank. With alot of interested from the blowies and not much else, i decided to move on a bit further to some broken ground cosisting of a few rocks, and a few patches of weed.
After a couple of blowies i decided to try a new retrieve. Instead of twitching it back, with the odd pause, i cast out and cranked it down a bit, then began to shake the rod tip from side to side moving the rod tip only about 15 to 20 cm and very slowly winding. WHACK!!! Huh??? Only a small fish, but for the first cast on a new retreive, it was looking promising.