QuintrexII
14-06-2007, 01:52 PM
Hi guys,
Nicole & I headed striaght over to the Isalnd @ 6.30 friday night after work. After the usual fun of trying to find an unused campsite in the dark, we finally settled on a prime dune site about 1km north of Camel Rock, on the eastern beach (6km's sth of Middle Rd).
We usually go hard from the moment we get there until the moment we leave, but we thought a little R'n'R was in order, so a more leisurely approach was taken in the fishing dep't.
No trips to the cape, or over to Yellow patch for Yabbies.... Just straight out the front of the camp site.
What a great weekend weather wise though, chilly as it was, with the winds being from the west for most of the weekend, it was glorious to be able to sling the bait right out to the back of the gutters.
Using worms and Pippies, 8lb mono on surf rods with alvey side casts, 6lb flouro leader with red tube and bead above #2 hook, we thought we had an all purpose rig that should be able to catch anything from bream to whiting.
Well... No whiting or bream, but how good are the dart at the moment. Same weekend last year we were lucky to catch 4-5, 20 - 30 cm dart or bream in a session, but Saturday, Sunday and Monday afternoon on the run up to High tide we were catching 20-30 dart, with 60-70% going over the 40-45 cm mark. Good fun on the lighter leader. All realeased for this time next year !!!
Unfortunately had a bad experience with our 4wd hire supplier. But thanks to a great couple driving a Maverick (sorry didn't get your names) we were back in business - Lucky that the first person we hailed down for help was a Toyota mechanic !!! no thanks to an expensive, lazy and underprepared Hire business. who I won't recommend in a decade of sundays.
But with all the mechanical dramas out of the way it was yet another great escape to Moreton.
Nicole & I headed striaght over to the Isalnd @ 6.30 friday night after work. After the usual fun of trying to find an unused campsite in the dark, we finally settled on a prime dune site about 1km north of Camel Rock, on the eastern beach (6km's sth of Middle Rd).
We usually go hard from the moment we get there until the moment we leave, but we thought a little R'n'R was in order, so a more leisurely approach was taken in the fishing dep't.
No trips to the cape, or over to Yellow patch for Yabbies.... Just straight out the front of the camp site.
What a great weekend weather wise though, chilly as it was, with the winds being from the west for most of the weekend, it was glorious to be able to sling the bait right out to the back of the gutters.
Using worms and Pippies, 8lb mono on surf rods with alvey side casts, 6lb flouro leader with red tube and bead above #2 hook, we thought we had an all purpose rig that should be able to catch anything from bream to whiting.
Well... No whiting or bream, but how good are the dart at the moment. Same weekend last year we were lucky to catch 4-5, 20 - 30 cm dart or bream in a session, but Saturday, Sunday and Monday afternoon on the run up to High tide we were catching 20-30 dart, with 60-70% going over the 40-45 cm mark. Good fun on the lighter leader. All realeased for this time next year !!!
Unfortunately had a bad experience with our 4wd hire supplier. But thanks to a great couple driving a Maverick (sorry didn't get your names) we were back in business - Lucky that the first person we hailed down for help was a Toyota mechanic !!! no thanks to an expensive, lazy and underprepared Hire business. who I won't recommend in a decade of sundays.
But with all the mechanical dramas out of the way it was yet another great escape to Moreton.