As most people know, Aqua is not the easiest venue to fish… From crazy depths to daphnia blooms that are so big they show up on the fish finders. To make it harder there is gin clear water which allows the weed to grow almost all the way to the surface in water 2m+ and we use barbless hooks.
Aqua is one of those venues that I will go back to no matter how many times I blank…
It is plain and simple: Breathtakingly beautiful and peaceful.
With our chosen swim booked weeks ago we were getting more and more excited as Friday loomed closer. This will be the session we break the Aqua blanking streak. Third time lucky as they say. With some advice from another member we were out on the boat looking for those tell tale signs of feeding. There it is! We found four spots in between the weed. Solid donk as the lead hits the bottom.
Now, as it is Aqua there can be no shortcuts. If you see a fish turn you can be sure that there is a snag underneath it. And true to form we had snags reasonably close to all the spots we were planning to fish. So locked up drag it is.
Like I said 3rd time lucky…
Friday night rolled on. Liners galore which started to give us anxiety.
Finally!!!! Alarm starts going mental and I am out on the boat as the fish tried to bury me in the forest of weed in front of the swim. A big YES from the boat as I net my first fish out of Aqua. A misshaped koi called Quasimodo. I’ll take it thank you very much.
Tarryn followed suit with her first Mega. What a fish!
To say that she was happy is an understatement.
The weekend just got better as we were having runs almost every hour on Saturday night. Being kept up until 3am is not so bad when you are getting these amount of runs in one of the hardest dams.
What a weekend we had! 15 runs between us with 4 fish each and a few fish lost in the weed. A barbless hook makes it a lot safer for fish when it comes to snags in Aqua but not always easier when fishing in tons of weed. Slight bit of slack and it is off.
Aqua Paradiso, what a weekend it was.
As always, backed by SNZ Tackle making sure that we have the correct tackle and bait for every situation and venue we fish.
Carpy Dreams 