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28-08-2006, 07:38 PM
But they were'nt mine.
Sat' had the invite to fish the Richmond river (Ballina) with the Maroon BnB Teams V'S Blues BnBTeam.
This was a Bream only contest on them damm plastics, and to top it all off we were using cotton wool (4lb line) on Straddics, if you sneezed on this line it broke ;D.
We kicked off at 6.30am and finished at 12pm.
A lot of the blokes fishing are in the Abt comp and with the final in Ballina later this year, it was a good chance for them to do a little pre fish.
4 teams from maroon country and 3 from the blues, led by their illustrious lead Squidgie. ;)
I was teamed up with Wishey and having none of this sort of gear had to beg and borrow off him.
We headed up stream the rest went down.
After a quick how to use from Wishey i proceeeded to cast a everything he told me to, the only prob was i couldnt hit a barn door at five paces, so all the x's he pointed to on the water i missed by the preverbal mile, but after a 100 casts i started to drop it on the x, with the result i started to land bream.
WHishey had the first with his first cast, before i even got a jig in the water ;D
But persistence paid off and i finally started to land some legal breambo, along with some stonker whiting 39cm and a zillion flathead, all released.
Two hrs into the chase we had our 5 for the boat, so the rest of the time was trying to upgrade, with a few around the 29cm mark.
Learnt a hell of lot off Whisey, and you may have even convinced me to chase breambos on rubbers, but i dont no about the 4lb line bit. ;D
Back at the weight in, it turned into a Maroon slaughter 1st 2nd 3rd (whishey and some old baito fisho). The blues were flat out getting on the board and copped a real kaning, so they sulked off to review their tactics for the return round.
Great day fellas.
Then it was up to Mono's for the night and a few sherberts.
With his charter cancelled on sunday due to strong winds out wide, and him just installing a new cannon didgie troll d.r., and needing some pics for the boat show, we headed out to the closer inshore ground sunda y morning, to get some action shots of the new cannon in action.
Well you cannot test new equipment with out some livies, so jigged a few yakkas up and set them loose, lost a few to the big cobe population which is hanging around the closer inshore areas.
So to a different spot to jig some slimies, chrikies the cobes were even grabbing the sinkers and buzzing off with them making the old jig rigs do some screaming.
So the first few slimies caughyt were sent straight back down and wasnt long before the terror struck in and you could see it in the line.
the new d.r. was soon to pay off and mono was onto a big cobe, and after a while of puffing and panting, i gaffed a nice 12-14kg cobe and hoisted here on board.
Just what he need for some action shots with the new cannon for his boat show talk.
The cobes were thick, and after 3 hrs we headed back in to the air birth ;D ;D ;D ;D by 10am with cobes on ice and all the action shots he needed.
Nice quick little trip mate.
NO pics from either event, didnt want the blues seeing the spots we caught the bream and monos photos will be used at the boat show.
regards
Sat' had the invite to fish the Richmond river (Ballina) with the Maroon BnB Teams V'S Blues BnBTeam.
This was a Bream only contest on them damm plastics, and to top it all off we were using cotton wool (4lb line) on Straddics, if you sneezed on this line it broke ;D.
We kicked off at 6.30am and finished at 12pm.
A lot of the blokes fishing are in the Abt comp and with the final in Ballina later this year, it was a good chance for them to do a little pre fish.
4 teams from maroon country and 3 from the blues, led by their illustrious lead Squidgie. ;)
I was teamed up with Wishey and having none of this sort of gear had to beg and borrow off him.
We headed up stream the rest went down.
After a quick how to use from Wishey i proceeeded to cast a everything he told me to, the only prob was i couldnt hit a barn door at five paces, so all the x's he pointed to on the water i missed by the preverbal mile, but after a 100 casts i started to drop it on the x, with the result i started to land bream.
WHishey had the first with his first cast, before i even got a jig in the water ;D
But persistence paid off and i finally started to land some legal breambo, along with some stonker whiting 39cm and a zillion flathead, all released.
Two hrs into the chase we had our 5 for the boat, so the rest of the time was trying to upgrade, with a few around the 29cm mark.
Learnt a hell of lot off Whisey, and you may have even convinced me to chase breambos on rubbers, but i dont no about the 4lb line bit. ;D
Back at the weight in, it turned into a Maroon slaughter 1st 2nd 3rd (whishey and some old baito fisho). The blues were flat out getting on the board and copped a real kaning, so they sulked off to review their tactics for the return round.
Great day fellas.
Then it was up to Mono's for the night and a few sherberts.
With his charter cancelled on sunday due to strong winds out wide, and him just installing a new cannon didgie troll d.r., and needing some pics for the boat show, we headed out to the closer inshore ground sunda y morning, to get some action shots of the new cannon in action.
Well you cannot test new equipment with out some livies, so jigged a few yakkas up and set them loose, lost a few to the big cobe population which is hanging around the closer inshore areas.
So to a different spot to jig some slimies, chrikies the cobes were even grabbing the sinkers and buzzing off with them making the old jig rigs do some screaming.
So the first few slimies caughyt were sent straight back down and wasnt long before the terror struck in and you could see it in the line.
the new d.r. was soon to pay off and mono was onto a big cobe, and after a while of puffing and panting, i gaffed a nice 12-14kg cobe and hoisted here on board.
Just what he need for some action shots with the new cannon for his boat show talk.
The cobes were thick, and after 3 hrs we headed back in to the air birth ;D ;D ;D ;D by 10am with cobes on ice and all the action shots he needed.
Nice quick little trip mate.
NO pics from either event, didnt want the blues seeing the spots we caught the bream and monos photos will be used at the boat show.
regards