Ever eager to wet a fly line Nick and I dragged ourselves from bed long before work and met at Casino Beach. It was 5am and the sun was yet to rise.
Sadly the water was a little higher than we’d anticipated from tidal charts but since we were already there we were committed. Slowly we began fishing our way up the beach focusing on the sand banks and deeper channels where we knew the fish would gather. Things were far from ideal but we pushed on.
Thankfully the tide was pulling and 45 minutes later conditions were far more favourable. Nick was the first to get into a pre-work fish landing a small largespot pompano on an orange charlie. I followed this up with a small southern pompano taken on a similar fly.
Amazingly I had false hooked my fish through the nostrils. This seems to be a fact that Nick will never let me forget…well…until he does it I’m sure.
By 6:30am we had landed our fish, packed up our kit and were on our way to our respective offices. Isn’t it great living in a place where you can land a pompano before work? Certainly worth the 4:30am alarm.