imnotoriginal
05-05-2008, 04:24 PM
Fished this morning from Golden Beach again. Have been hitting a favourite old spot of late that usually produces a few fish around this time of year. Unfortunately, the old spot doesn't seem to willing to cooperate so far. Two fellas in a boat decided castnetting within five metres of my line was just brilliant too>:( . After two hours of casting various plastics and poppers I left with the donut still hanging over my head.
Had a quick go at another spot further up the backwaters. The donut still persisted, despite hooking three moses that all miraculously shed the hook as I was lifting them. So it's going to be one of those days is it...:-/
Decided on a change of tack and moved up the coastline to Kawana. After nearly an hour of casting gulps I'd still had no luck when finally I spotted a nice size bream idling between two pontoons. I skipcast toward him and managed two skips and a perfect landing right at the base of the pontoon; silent entry. As the shrimp drifted down he followed and after a nervous 30-40 seconds line finally started peeling off and I closed to bail arm and had my first fish! Bugger, I haven't been that happy to catch a just legal bream for years!
Another two followed, as well as a number of destroyed plastics and even a little flounder. No pics of the bream, the camera batteries started to dieearly in the session, so just the sunrise pics for today. A fortnight's leave coming up in a couple of weeks, I sure hope I start finding some better form before then!
Joel
Had a quick go at another spot further up the backwaters. The donut still persisted, despite hooking three moses that all miraculously shed the hook as I was lifting them. So it's going to be one of those days is it...:-/
Decided on a change of tack and moved up the coastline to Kawana. After nearly an hour of casting gulps I'd still had no luck when finally I spotted a nice size bream idling between two pontoons. I skipcast toward him and managed two skips and a perfect landing right at the base of the pontoon; silent entry. As the shrimp drifted down he followed and after a nervous 30-40 seconds line finally started peeling off and I closed to bail arm and had my first fish! Bugger, I haven't been that happy to catch a just legal bream for years!
Another two followed, as well as a number of destroyed plastics and even a little flounder. No pics of the bream, the camera batteries started to dieearly in the session, so just the sunrise pics for today. A fortnight's leave coming up in a couple of weeks, I sure hope I start finding some better form before then!
Joel