Pin area this morning 2/6

[finga]

Well stuff all to report really. :-/
DaveB and I went for a fish down the Pin.
We got a 3" whiting and a soul
We also got stuck on a mudflat with an outgoing tide (I have to either get bigger feet or loose about 50kg so I won't sink up to my hips in the sticky black goo) :'(

We could have got pounded by the chop coming home but I took it steady instead.
The winch cable broke as we got the boat on the trailer and some bugger pinched the pin out of the safety chain.
But overall I had a good day ;D. I had a laugh, I fed some hawks and a pelican, I got my exercise for the year (bloody mud), I had a yarn with a good bloke, the boat had a run and it was a day on the water.

Don't know what Dave thought though :-/

Cheers Scott :)

[Blackened]

G'day

Good to see you're keeping optimistic scott. Nothing worth stressing over;)

At least you will have nice legs now with a mud pack being on them for so long :)

They pay big $$ for that overseas.

Dave

[juju]

Makes for a day that you will remember but....;D

[charleville]

Serves ya right for goin' fishin' on a weekend! ;D ;D ;D

Coulda been worse. There coulda been lightning. ;D ;D ;D

Deep down though, it sounds like you had a great day.http://myskitch.com/charleville/arrow-20070601-215905-20070602-164114.png

When I think back to my youth and driving around Australia before the days of sealed roads across the Nullabor and between Alice Springs and Port Augusta and between Charters Towers and Mt Isa etc etc etc, the bits that I cherish most are when I bogged the car up the axles on the "highway", east of Julia Creek, and when I lost all my fluid suspension on the Nullabor, and when I had to drive 30 miles at night with a failed generator (before the days of alternators) into Richmond, and when I got washed two miles down the flooded Calliope River , and when I had a prang and leaked oil all around Australia etc etc etc. The bad stuff is what makes the adventure fun and something to laugh about for years and years. ;D

[Scalem]

My guess is that there was a huge number of boats around, did you say hello to the AF members fishing the touchy M&G? There is a Bream comp on this weekend too - so I was told. Good to get out regardless Scottie, unlike me who cranked up the chainsaw to lop that buggar of a Gum out front, and trim the other on the western side. AND I STILL HAVE ALL MY LIMBS;D ;D

'Onya!

Scalem

[finga]

Say gidday to any Ausfishers?? We couldn't find any.
We had the nearly red flag (fluoro pink to be exact) on and we distantly saw one or two flags but we couldn't catch them. :(

Yep, no point in been peeved for two weeks.
We'll see what damage the cook and I can do tomorrow eh.

There were lots of guys in the supercharged tinnies on steroids doing the 'other' comp. Gees I'd wish they read the water safety manual or have a bit of courtesy. Nothing like a 4.75m tinny with a 120hp motor going full noise about 20m away from you when your sitting still.

Anyways the cook and I will see some Ausfishers tomorrow when we go down.

[Seahorse]

i was wondering how the day went down the pin with the m&g.
guess it may still be going strong ha ha. into drinkie time now.

[Poodroo]

Must have been a day for mishaps huh? Took #2 in the Pin for the M&G and the flaming cowling latch/lock kept undoing itself which basically allowed water to come up under the cover and snuff the motor. Was easy enough to restart but she ran on one cylinder all the way. Chugged over to somewhere away from the big bay cruisers trying to sink me while I removed the cover and drowned the motor in Innox. Cover back on and started and ran like a rocket all the way back to VMR Jacobs Well where I took the boat out of the water and took the offending latch apart and fixed the problem. Relaunched and had a reasonable session for the afternoon at least catching a couple of reasonable bream and a flatty for the weigh in. Tomorrow is going to be better. Will see you there Scott.

Cheers,

Poodroo

[DaveB]

Scott,
I have to say it was the best day I've had for a very long time. Got my first Qld fish and a free mud treatment for the legs, what more could I ask for? Even proved those soft plastics do work, so all in all I'm stoked :-) Think I'll have to work on that hook-setting technique however :-)

Cheers
DaveB

[finga]

Serves ya right for goin' fishin' on a weekend! ;D ;D ;D

Coulda been worse. There coulda been lightning. ;D ;D ;D

Deep down though, it sounds like you had a great day.http://myskitch.com/charleville/arrow-20070601-215905-20070602-164114.png


Yep, your right old mate.
But if you don't fish week-ends every now and again how can you fully appreciate.....what's the word for it.....the serenity of midweek fishing ;D

Hey Charlie if the smiley bloke was pink not blue then it'll look like me. Same amount of hair ::)

I'm pleased you had a good day too Dave.
Was worth every second. ;D

I was think about whether to loose 50kgs or get bigger feet bit....I think I'll stay the same. If I was 50kg lighter maybe I would have gone all the way down. It might have been my guts that stopped me ;D

[charleville]

Hey Charlie if the smiley bloke was pink not blue then it'll look like me. Same amount of hair ::)

http://myskitch.com/charleville/arrow-20070601-215905-2-20070603-110835.png

[charleville]

Same bloke - - wearing a mullet ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

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