A morning on the burrum.

[chewy01]

On the water 4am.Travelled thru the dark up the river to buxton.First cast on a r2s bubble pop son andy lands a nice tarpon. i throw a 70??mm ecogear minnow in yellow and white. hookup straight away. nice fish bout 55cm. next 1 1/2 hours constant hookups. biggest 61cm. gr8 fun on the 2kg rods.got bout 20 to the boat.(back next weekend with the flyrod.)Back out to first marker. Andy asks if he can throw the popper.(dads thinking too late in the day but whatever)While i had the head down sploosh andy is hooked up to a nice little queenie bout 55.I throw out a 5"snapback on a 1/4 5/0tt jh and a school mackeral follows it in. fished like this till 11 when the burrum heads bakery was calling. ended up with a dozen queenies released couple tailor couple flathead and a couple mackeral so it was a top morning. all fish on light spin gear.On the down side soon as we got a couple fish we were bombarded with trollers some coming that close i could poke them with the rod. rude rude rude. after they went past we woood have to wait ten minutes then electric back in and start casting again.need less to say i never saw any troller catch a fish. All fish released. four squid kept.back to the two lane ramp only to find only one in use with fishing gear and four ppl fishing.Grrrr. after a gr8 mornings fishing i didnt want to ruin it with a confrontation. And not one of them lifted a finger to help load a boat. any how a nice day out with just a few peanuts to finish it.
cheers chewy........:D :D >:(

[poundalead]

That annoys me when people look at you while your struggling with your rig at the ramp if everybody chipped in they would unload and load a lot quicker. Sounds like a top day, I still haven't worked out the Burrum

Cheers Benny

[chewy01]

yea benny we were right but some poor bloke was by himself waves crashing in and 5 onlookers.i had my trailer ready to back down at the top of the ramp and had to go down and give him a hand as my young bloke was holding our boat. next time i should just reverse down over the buckets rods and nets. iv seen it done at this ramp with unpleasant results.it cant be that hard to keep the gear on the side of the ramp.

[poundalead]

Too true its a boat ramp not a jetty :) they should just concrete a bit extra on each side to keep everyone happy good report though

Cheers Benny