Hi All The next leg of the road trip !
Moving on from Cania we hit the road at around 6am for our haul up to Proserpine ..... A good run saw us pull into Proserpine bait & tackle mid afternoon (Monday 15th) .... A quick chat with Lindsay Dobe didn't leave us with a lot of confidence with only fair results had during the ABT event & Proserpine Catch & Release Tournament over the previous week ..... We also now had 20knot SE winds to contend with. Gathering some more supplies , ice & beer ...we were soon at Camp Kanga ......! A quick unpack & chat with some others ( incl fellow Ausfisher John) .. allowed us a quick sunset fish ........ We planned to fish the weed beds where we had some success on a previous trip! ... conditions remained blowy & quite cool ........ Once we reached the weed beds ..... the boat kacked itself ( we could not get it to run .... You could have heard the F#%@& ass #$*@ all the way to Cairns ....... So as all serious fishoes would do ...... We dropped over the leccy .... put some lures out & trolled the 4 kms back to the ramp .... in what was a wet & slow run ( no fish though)
Back at the Kanga a chat with John & a look at his motor all had us in agreement that there was a fuel issue ...... Yep ... The fuel line attachment to the motor was unclippedA quick pump of the fuel bulb & away she went ... " Praise the lord!"
The next morning had us up at around 4.30am .... A good BBQ breakfast & we were in the water around 5.30 ..... Once again , over to the weed ...... But the dam looked so much different from what I remembered from 2 years earlier ..... The water levels were up from 20% to 34% ..... & I was certainly disorientatedSo I thought with the increasing wind that a troll was the go while we reacquainted ourselves with the dam ...... We trolled along the timberline towards the dam with out a touch .... On the return I changed from a 3M Classic to a 20ft Brown Killalure River Rat .... Not 2mins later , my Calcutta 400 is loosing 50lb braid at a fair rate ........ I've knocked the boat out of gear & moved to the back of the boat ..... & started to put some hurt on the the fish ....... up it comes a metery + ... The first jump was a cracker ( a very silvery coloured fish) ... Then another jump ........ I felt at that time I had the measure of this fish until I noticed that while we were clear of the main stand of trees , we were in fact drifting quickly past a single bunch of spindly sticks ( THE TOP OF A TREE in 15m of water) ..... I've shouted out to whitey to get on the wheel & head away
.... Too late ... I've stated to feel the braid rubbing in the branches .... Then BRICKED!
Well after that we trolled a little longer before moving into the sticks to cast just about everything we had .... After about 3 hours & lunch Attachment 15075 we moved back out into the main basin due to increasing winds ( & the thought of getting brained by some falling timber) ..... So we trolled for the rest of the day for nothing!
General discussion around the Camp was that poor results were had due to the SE winds ( Water temps @ 24 Deg ...... We found some shallows in the NE corner that got to 26.2) ... + the pressure over the past week with two tournaments being held on the dam ??? .... So we decided that we would not bother spending the extra day there and move up to our next destination " Lucinda". With the next few days forecast remaining unfavourable .... This was the go! ......... Nagg
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Originally Posted by Obi _ Wan
but this time a little longer 16 days) ...... Up to Lucinda/Cardwell again ... & with 2 or 3 other boats.
At least you can't get bricked in the spindle fishing the jetty
