Lindsay Campbell scored a solid Tin Can Bay giant trevally.
Fresh kick-starts fishing frenzy
G The author’s son Howard Rippon braved the rain, insistent on going for a fish with dad to catch a flathead.
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’DAY crew, just as the waterways were starting to look good and the water was cleaning up… boom! Down came the rain and did we cop it! Falls of 300mm, 350mm, 380mm, 450mm and some local rain gauges having even 480mm and 500mm in them – that’s a lot of water for 24 hours. Four hours from high tide, it was 1m away from the front door of our shop, and with high tide at 6.30pm, I was a little worried it was going to come through the front door. Marquis and I moved as much stock off the floor as possible and then prayed the water wasn’t going to get much higher, and that the rain would let up. With the whole of Emperor St looking like a river, we left the shop at about 4.30pm. I went back right on high tide and the water had receded to the gutter, thank goodness! Let’s hope the chocolate brown water pushes
Tin Can Bay by CHRIS RIPPON
out of the system quickly this time and that we don’t have too much rain in coming weeks. So, what was getting caught before, during and after the rain? Crabs were on the move after the rain, but reports were mixed.
A few days after the big rain we had at the end of the month, the flats and lower reaches seemed to be where the action was. Prior to that, the crabs had been a little hard to come by but, as always, * continued P50
Brook Carnellor took a nice-sized blackspotted cod from a night fish for mangrove jack. www.bnbfishing.com. au
