Light Tackle Shore fishing

As part of our trip this time we decided to also have a go at the shore fishing options in the area and see what they were like, Damith has a good idea of were to fish and has fished from the shores of Sri Lanka extensively for many years so he has some great information of areas, how to get there and what local conditions are optimal to fish lures.

Off we go down a secret pathway to have go, sometimes it feels good when you dont have the heavy stuff on hand and the body is aching from casting all day long and jigging. Damith has borrowed some Spanyids from me, he says they dont look good but he will try them out anyways!!

The entrance to the river mouth on one side, it was quite windy this day in a quite spectacular location that had some perfect ambush points as the outflow curved around a bend

Here is the team trying a small reefy channel during morning’s session

Damith gets going with a raider and has almost instant success with a small big eye trevally

Then soon after the fun started, we start to get hits from all kinds of species, the most active are the big eye herrings and these light up the action with spectacular jumps the moment they feel the hook.

Here are some pictures of some taking off the moment they are hooked

The action keeps going on

The man and his raider with a big eye herring

Here we are setting up at the river mouth getting ready for an evening session of casting, wonder what live- bait would be like

The perfect ambush point, waiting for time and tide or just relaxing a bit in beautiful surroundings

Trying our luck

Pint sized GT one on many…..

Wait for them to swim out the deeper water on the reefs edge, are there bigger ones about well lets mention a fiesty magrove jack that went grabbed lure and went around a rock… what happened next he was bullied out from his hiding place and came straight up to the shore followed by a GT in the 12 kg region, imagine if it had taken the lure instead of the Mangrove Jack

Hookup with an oxeye herring, which seem to be the most abundant species.

Damith poses with a small finger-mark snapper

Aksahy lands a small barracuda while Damith hooks up in the background again

Air borne fish in the shallows… again

Here are the species we have caught

• Mangrove Jack
• Threadfin Salmon
• Grouper
• GT
• Golden Trevally
• Barracuda
• Snapper more than 1 species
• Barramundi

Tight lines