Burley_Boy
30-10-2005, 07:00 PM
Took the family out of the house for a trip to the pin. Not expected to be much of a fishing trip I just wanted to get the family on the water but you never know so I took a couple of small rods and the TSS4 just in case.
We pitched camp at the bedrooms and had a top spot right on the beach. Come dusk I wandered down to the beach to see if I could find an accessible gutter. With my TSS4 on a 7" beach rod I didn't have much of a chance against the wind so although I persisted for an hour I didn't have much luck. Some blokes with beach rods 100M on managed to land a couple of Tailor of decent size.
Next time it will be the Alvey and my beach rod but it was nice to get out there.
Back at camp we had a great evening toasting marshmallows and sinking a few cold ones. No mozzies to speak of!
Got up in the morning and harassed a lady who was dumping undersize bream and whiting on the beach, she was just shaking them off the rod and letting them drop in the sand. I couldn't help myself so I took the kids with me and told her what I thought about her 10cm Bream fishing. I think she was just amusing herself and wasn't impressed with my lecture. The dead fish was left on the beach for the pelicans.. go figure.
Took my eldest daughter for a bit of a fish using some yabbies later that morning, we ended up on a bank just north of the bedrooms and I let her fish a light rod with the yabbies and I thought I'd give some plastics a go.
Well we got a few small flatties on the yabbies enough to keep her excited which is really the point but although I persisted I had not a touch on the plastics. I'm going to have to give this a serious go I think and maybe some lessons from flick flack ;)
After numerous dropped fish I showed her how to give the fish a few secs to take the bait before setting the hook. Next thing you know she yells that she got one and we spend a few minutes watching a Long Tom do full aerials on the end of her line.
We landed the 65cm Long Tom seriously gut hooked and don't those fellas have teeth! She was very excited that the short lesson had given her immediate results so she asked for immediate relocation to the campsite to cook her fish for lunch :D
It tasted great apparently and it looks like we have another one interested in the sport now!
On the way back we had a large pod of Dolphins around us and a couple even decided to race next to us, pretty cool.
Chatted to Brett (Brejen) on the radio and when we spoke it was blowing up outside and they were struggling so hopefully it got better on the 18's.
Anyway that was my weekend and I've got the sunburn to proove it. Gotta love this part of the world ;D
We pitched camp at the bedrooms and had a top spot right on the beach. Come dusk I wandered down to the beach to see if I could find an accessible gutter. With my TSS4 on a 7" beach rod I didn't have much of a chance against the wind so although I persisted for an hour I didn't have much luck. Some blokes with beach rods 100M on managed to land a couple of Tailor of decent size.
Next time it will be the Alvey and my beach rod but it was nice to get out there.
Back at camp we had a great evening toasting marshmallows and sinking a few cold ones. No mozzies to speak of!
Got up in the morning and harassed a lady who was dumping undersize bream and whiting on the beach, she was just shaking them off the rod and letting them drop in the sand. I couldn't help myself so I took the kids with me and told her what I thought about her 10cm Bream fishing. I think she was just amusing herself and wasn't impressed with my lecture. The dead fish was left on the beach for the pelicans.. go figure.
Took my eldest daughter for a bit of a fish using some yabbies later that morning, we ended up on a bank just north of the bedrooms and I let her fish a light rod with the yabbies and I thought I'd give some plastics a go.
Well we got a few small flatties on the yabbies enough to keep her excited which is really the point but although I persisted I had not a touch on the plastics. I'm going to have to give this a serious go I think and maybe some lessons from flick flack ;)
After numerous dropped fish I showed her how to give the fish a few secs to take the bait before setting the hook. Next thing you know she yells that she got one and we spend a few minutes watching a Long Tom do full aerials on the end of her line.
We landed the 65cm Long Tom seriously gut hooked and don't those fellas have teeth! She was very excited that the short lesson had given her immediate results so she asked for immediate relocation to the campsite to cook her fish for lunch :D
It tasted great apparently and it looks like we have another one interested in the sport now!
On the way back we had a large pod of Dolphins around us and a couple even decided to race next to us, pretty cool.
Chatted to Brett (Brejen) on the radio and when we spoke it was blowing up outside and they were struggling so hopefully it got better on the 18's.
Anyway that was my weekend and I've got the sunburn to proove it. Gotta love this part of the world ;D