2022 FW Comp Prefish efforts 20220409 Corroboree Billabong

So Monday we found out that the road into Corroboree billabong was now open

The wait til Saturday was so tramatizing !! Could barely do my job as every thought was going over tactics to use, flies to use, locations to try -  fantasizing the numbers and size caught - oh my oh my they were huge in size and numbers! 

But fantasy aside, pre-dawn saturday morning Peter was at my place and 45minutes later we are backing into to the calm waters of the billabong launching Peter's boat

We duck up to the Rock hole first - but only tarpon rolling about in large numbers 

However, with the one more cast King - Peter, pushing out another cast and comes up tight not to a tarpon but a 46cm plump as can be to the point of bursting barra, which is frolicing about on the end of Peters fly line and leader - yeeehaaahhh!

This encouraged lots more casting but to no avail

we head further down the billabong to see what else we find 

Over the next few hours - I drop 5 toga before I got one

I ended up with four toga for the day

Also get a full line of 30-32cm tarpon (in the FW comp a line is 20 fish of one species, that can be upgraded once you first get 20 fish of the species) - over all got about 50 or more  tarpon

Peter got the Tarpon line too

He ended up with 2 toga for the day

The weather was calm but the sun extremely hot and quickly draining your energy

The Tarpon numbers made getting contact with the Toga very hard

Interestingly, we did not see many crocs - only one up on a bank sunning itself. Usually your see 20 plus crocs along edges as you rip between spots - they were mostly likely still there so no swimming for sure! lol as if!

So how's it looking for FW comp in 3 weeks??? 

We still have to work/try out our barra tactics at a couple of identified spots - the Toga were tough but we know several flies that work well - if we can get past the tarpon! 

We plan to do another prefish next weekend - hopefully test successfully our barra ideas/tactics and get more Toga than today - the low numbers of toga to the net - a little troubling so hope it was just a weather change thing! 

Interestingly. during a prefish last year I got 16 saratoga to the net and dropped as many with very poor hookup rates - but thinking on that, 5 dropped & 4 to net today - so the hook up ratio similar to last year just less fish today - hmmmmmm foreboding!)

ANYWAY, go on get out there - swoffing awaits you!