Well this may not actually be a weekly report, but would like to share as much as possible the results, good or bad, with fishing sessions that I do at Tinaroo, just in case others are wondering how it is fishing (according to me anyways )

On the weekend I took a fishing mate and a friend of his from NSW out for the night at Tinaroo.

We arrived at lunchtime on Saturday after organising Shreng's fishing licence at Lake Tinaroo Holiday Park, to be greeted with a bright sunny day with a reasonably strong wind.

I had decided to take these guys up towards the Kauri Creek section of the dam for a little bit of early exploration work, as I thought with three lures being sent out into the unknown waters, we may have a better chance of hooking up, and finding new patches of fish.

The guys had a pretty heavy session on the turps the night before so were a little weary, and were quite happy to catch a bit of sleep in between travelling to new destination. Arriving up at spot x in the Kauri Creek region, I begun throwing the faithful B-52 along with Shreng, whilst Quoc put on another Storm faithful, before sitting down for a few minutes to compose and get ready to start firing casts out. He then got up and said he would have a few casts before having a rest.

On his second cast to a region I had pointed out that looked OK, he hooked up to a metery, only to have it stitch him up in the spindle, doing aerobatics in all directions apart from where we thought it was. After getting down to the last stick, the barra had one more lunge before straightening the Owner treble and setting itself free. This was the only action we saw in the first session, except for when I hit another spot half way up the dam where I landed a 50cm barra in the shallows.

We then packed up about 4pm and moved the car and boat to the Tinaburra region for the overnight fish.

With the wind blowing, and the clouds looking more and more like rain, it was a surprise when the weather cleared right at prime time on sunset and went into glassy conditions with cloud clearing. I said to the guys we will be on shortly so have lures in the water, when no sooner I spoke, I struck gold to a 117 in very shallow water around some spindle on, you guessed it, a Gold B-52. This fish went bananas and I think it found every stick in the region to try and dislodge my trusty little friend out of the corner of its mouth. After a bit of patience and trust in my gear (Calcutta 200b and G-Loomis CR665) I had the fish boatside much to our Virgin Barra fishermans (Shreng) amazement. With lure quickly removed and a quick happy snap the fish was released, spraying water over all of us with its powerful tail.

It wasn't until 8pm that night that we experienced any other action, until Shreng had a metre plus smash his surface lure (ugly looking homemade job) almost right at the boat. We tried our hardest to coach and guide him to get his first metre plus barra to the boat, but unfortunately the fish snagged the lure against some spindle. Needless to say, Shreng now had a story to tell about the fish that got away.

Apart from my two fish and two solid hookups the action was slow, with no other hits, or sightings of barra.

We heard quite a few small fish on the surface that night, but as we were all weary by this stage, we crashed out on the boat, falling asleep to the sound of the occasional boof...