I NEED A HIRO
Land-based sensei HIROAKI NAKAMURA shares his hard-won knowledge on catching the mighty barramundi without a boat
We had a cyclone on Saturday.
Four days after the cyclone, it was Wednesday night.
I went fishing at Mindil Creek at high tide.
At last, the tides have taken out fallen leaves, mangrove seeds and other gunk in the water, brought in by waves and winds. It was a black, moonless, night.
There was a thunderstorm just before I left my place.
Therefore, the sea water was very murky.
Around March, I often encounter mangrove snakes while I am wading in the water.
I waded through shallow water to a place where I could easily cast lures while being cautious against mangrove snakes, stingray, stonefish and crocodiles. I cast a soft plastic shad. The seawater was excessively mixed with the freshwater.
Hence, the soft plastic shad didn’t synchronise with a stream of water very much.
In such a situation, I had small fish bites on my soft plastic shad twice.
But barramundi were not really actively searching for baits at Mindil at that time.
As a result, I haven’t caught a barramundi for three weeks because of unfavourable weather.
My usual fishing locations are located adjacent or close to urbanised areas near cities.
It seems it will still take time for many barramundi to come back to my usual fishing locations.
By the way, I use the fishing reel, developing little trouble caused by the braid as much as possible line for the land based barramundi fishing at night.