Fishing in Forster

Forster

We decided to get away from it all last weekend and so spent a couple of nights up in Forster. It's a place we like to head for as it's a relatively comfortable 3-4 hours drive north which can be done after work on a Friday and there are always loads of dolphins to be seen when you get there. Emily is also keen to throw a line in the water as well and is continually assuring me that the place has decent fish to catch despite our last foray up there which only turned up a spectacular array of tiddlers.

Baby Snapper

The fishing this time around initially looked to be following the same script as a baby Snapper was the only thing landed in an uneventful and brutally hot morning session.

Silver Trevally

Yellowfin Bream

The evening, however, saw a change in conditions as thunderstorms and rain rolled in and a concurrent change of bait from worms to everyone's favourite prawns seemed to kick-start the action. The first two casts saw a Silver Trevally and then a nice little Bream landed.

Into the night

Weeping Toadfish

After a break for tea at a quality country-town Chinese we fished on into the night. We'd lost our premium spot next to the boat moorings by that point and so were forced further up the harbour wall. Plenty of weed made things a bit snaggy so Emily switched to a float set-up and promptly emptied the ocean of Silver Batfish.

Silver Batfish (aka Diamondfish)

With the clock approaching midnight and the dolphins coming right in for a close look I lobbed the last prawn into the water and finished the day with a little Sand Whiting and our fifth species of the trip.

Sand Whiting

I know some of you out there love your remarkable trees and so we stopped off on the way home to see 'The Grandis' which they claim to be the tallest tree in NSW. Not quite sure how they figure that out considering the vast tracts of undisturbed forest in the state but I guess it's the biggest that they've found to date. It's a Flooded Gum (Eucalyptus grandis) and comes in at about 85m tall with a diameter of just under 3m so in global terms maybe not so impressive and a wee bit underwhelming!

 'The Grandis'