Fishing in fog.

[grant]

Do you think the fishing ina heavy fog is better than a bright day, I was talking to a bream fisho and he reckons foggy days are the best for bream. any comments?

g./

[salmon-head]

For shore fishing I prefer an overcast day to a sunny day, so I guess fog would be in my favour too.

Dave/

[hillbilly]

Ive been told the same thing by a bream fisho at the Tambo, he said the fog helps to minimise shadows on the water that may spook the Bream. :idea:


Karren :wink:


Wishen I were Fishen

[fishing_dave]

I prefer fishing gunnamatta for salmon and the marribynong and werribee rivers for bream on fogy morns

[Dekka]

Went out off Rye about 3 weeks ago on a Friday night chasing gummies. Just after midnight the fog came in and we decided to head for home.

Was anchored about 80-100 metres off a channel marker and lost sight of it completely. Had to come in solely reliant on compass & GPS.

Scariest bloody trip I have ever made and will not do it again. Several times slightly adjusted course to maintain track and next minute compass started to spin. Found that I had adjusted/over-adjusted and started to turn in a circle, only give away was the compass. Looking out over the stern confirmed our circle work.

First time was the scariest as I would have laid money on the fact that I was heading straight and initially believed my compass had **** itself.

Not a pleasant way to end the night but put it down to experience.

[ozdevil]

i Think really fog is good cover and may bring on the fish a bit and very useful for landbased fisho

Years ago fishing Tassie lakes and one night a mate of mine andmyself got cuaght up in the highlands (lake sorell) in snow and there was no way we were going to make it home that night...

Anyway next morning we awoke to cold conditions and snow upto ya kneecaps and fog on the water

Anyway we put the boat in and started to troll around the lake anyway as we started trolling around we here something like ice breaking under us sure enough we hit ice (can understand what the titanic felt like when it hit an iceburg) anway as we continued to troll around we suddeny here ice breaking again but wasnt from us as we decided to follow our path back the way we came as we didnt want to find out how thick the ice really got, anyway this creak in the ice was actually a nice 1kg brown trout jumping out...i reckon this would have been our easit trout to catch all weekend as the trout landed on the ice and the ice didnt break

But foggy conditions can be very scary for boaties but i think it does help us fisho's out a bit

cheers
OZ

[maraudingmado]

Fished the western side of Tom Uglys Bridge in the fog. Scary as hell hearing BIG boats coming through the fog not knowing if they are going to hit you or see you in time. Won't be doing that again.

We did get a feed of flathead and bream only for my mate to leave the keeper bag over the side when we took off. Taa taa nice fishies :roll: :roll:

[grant]

You guys do relise by the way that fibreglass boats do not show on a ships radar, uless you have a reflector.

[meggsie]

GRP boats don't show on radar!
That's scary.
What's a "reflector"
On morning last winter, I was fishing in thick fog out from Portarlington, only managed to reach this spot via a GPS. While there, a couple of the local mussel boats came hooting past out of the fog, missing me by meters. I had always assumed that they must have known I was there by their radar, but maybe not?
Meggsie

[grant]

Many moons ago I was a RADAR Plotter in the navy and the sneeky missle boats were made from wood and grp so they wouldnt show on radar.

This is what I mean. There are many design, but after being stuck in the fog a few weeks ago, i am definetly going to get one. Also helps SAR if you are lost at sea.

http://www.whitworths.com.au/main_itemdetail.asp?item=74864&search123=radar&intAbsolutePage=1