Well all I can start by saying is "Oh my god", what an afternoon.
It started out mid morning as I launch the boat on a crystal clear dam, to be greeted by no wind and beautiful blue skies. This has been the pattern for the past couple of days, which is what we were waiting for anxiously.
After setting up the tripod for the camera (now that was how confident I was) and getting myself settled, I boated a very strong 120 cm Barra on a Gold Bony Bream within the first 15 minutes. It was one of those cast where I almost knew that I was going to catch something, as I watched my lure get crunched by the barra on a large pause in between slow twitches.
After the mandatory quick photos and a lot of yahooing in she went and tail splashed me with a passion. The yahooing continued, so I had a quick drink and got back into it. The rest of the day was pretty uneventful so I did some exploring, and saw a bank that I wanted to come back to later once I picked up Andrew (Wheezer).
I picked up Andrew at 3pm and we headed to a fishy looking piece of structure that I felt pretty confident about. The Bony Bream had a follower in the first couple of cast before shying away, then Andrew had the same happen on his green/gold BB. We persisted for awhile longer here, changing lures and retrieve rates for a couple of boils before moving to a spot that produced very little.
It was time to head back to the bank I saw earlier. Within minutes I had a massive boil on a gold Bony twitched ever so slowly, and then what happened from there to be honest was an absolute blur
We both lost count of how many hits we got on this bank, and think we had about a dozen decent hook ups from some very big and powerful fish. The boils they were leaving were boat size. All fish that were hooked or hit were on Bony Breams or slow rolled 130 Pro Slick Rigs in Evil Minnow. Andrew managed to boat two fish, the first one jumped like he was going to the olympics for high jump, and one of 114cm that took some persuading to come in.
It was really a gob smacking fun afternoon, even though we did not boat all the fish that maybe we should have. It did not matter though, when it was almost a hit a cast for a period there. Action packed stuff to say the least!!!!!! I still am dumbfounded and am really lost for words, and I know that Andrew will agree this report has not done justice to the session we had.. Thanks to Andrew for a great arvo
Cheers
Matt
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It looks like those barra were waiting for the stable weather as well! PLAY TIME 
Originally Posted by Whitto
