As it was my birthday on Saturday, I decided that a weekend spent up at Tinaroo is how I would like to spend my time.
I arranged for a mate to come up and also hooked up with Theo (Tinaroo Triumph) for a fish as well. We started at about 9am full of high confidence, which lasted about the first six casts. We then settled in for the long haul!!!
Tony was new to the baitcaster game, so for the morning seesion he was just getting his thumb and eye tuned in, throwing some soft plastics around. Theo was working hard body lures and I was trying the faithful Boney Bream.
We worked the picked areas hard (Saturday) for all it was worth, only to come up with a big fat donut for the day. This was the first day in months that I had not been successful, or for that matter even raised/sighted a fish.
After a few birthday bevvies that night back at the cabin, I decided to do a couple of hours the next morning, not wanting Tinaroo to defeat me.
I worked one patch with the Boney Bream and Slick Rigs for about an hour around 9am, before moving about 200 metres to another shallow patch. I was working the lure around weedy patches, before deciding to change my leader as it was getting a tad short from changing lures. At about 10.30am I retied the double and leader (thanks Theo for the new knot, it works!!!!) and cast the Boney Bream along a patch of lillypads that I knew had laydown timber lying about 5 foot under the surface. I also changed the Owner hook on the belly to a larger #1 Owner to suspend the lure in between rod jerks. Three twitches of the rod tip, and I heard that all too familiar loud underwater boof, before I saw my line change direction and then go tight. The barra went airborne, with BB and me in tow, and I was determined to get this one into the boat to make up the the slow day prior.
Barra was netted after a nice tussle and went 115cm on the brag mat. I was happy as a pig in s&$t!! Couple of mandatory photos and back in she went and I finished up for the day, going home quite contempt.
Cheers Matt
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. I can't put a good thing down at the moment though, the fish are liking them too much!!!! 
