Lake Gregory Firing

[Jim_Tait]

Spent Friday with my ol man up near Bundaberg for his Birthday and I had a new shimano rig - stella reel and T-curve rod to try out - so went across to teh local dam (Isis Balancing Storage - Lake Gregory) - things were slow around teh usual weed bed 'bombie' haunts but changing to surface lures on dark in the sticks produced the goods - can't beat the sheer adrenalin of surface lure strikes - on rapala skitter pops my favourite all round surface lure!!

Regards and tight lines - Jim

[Kayak1]

Thanks for sharing. Beautiful little spot Lake Gregory. Love the shot of the 'spotter' dog, looks like he's right in on the action.

Cheers,
Steve.

[Jim_Tait]

The 'spotter dog' Bungy is last in a long line (5 generations) of mad keen fisher dogs - the mod on the nose of the punt was put there so that Bungy's Great, Great, Grandfather "Joe' - could 'captain' while cruising along by standing on the very leading margin of the punt - he still went Rs Up on many occasions (including into croc rich Gulf waters) when we did a quick turn or hit a snag or wave.

All of them have jumped to attention as soon as they hear a reel drag going off - some have even been good at landing fish (whether you wanted them to or not) Ol Joe would even land barras - spines and all - until one day he went down to intercept a tiring fish my dad had hooked and about 50lb of barra stood on its tail - and sent him shooting up the bank to get away from the 'monster from the deep' - cracked us up!

Regards - Jim

[MitchCalcutt]

Hi Jim,
I had a Pitbull called Pierre Bigalo, he used to come fishing with me to. I stoped takeing him as he didn't understand the catch and release method.
Nice fish, very gold, is that because of where they live?
Mitch.