Well up this morning early to head into Gladstone for a medical for an Apprenticeship only to find myself on the other end of a offer from NRG to start next year for an Electrical Apprenticeship. I was pumped and dad was proud so we decided to hit the dam to celebrate. On the Water t 2:30 only to find half the carpark full already. (full moon and Awoongas like Queen Street). Well heading up towards dingo and i glimce around the Lake and decided to give a few new areas a crack. Stopped the boat about 500m from the bank to let the wind blows us in towards the fishing area. First cast dad gets a hit. The wind blow us towards the bay further to find a nice shollow weed bed and out comes the frog. Twitch Twitch this goes one for bout 30 mins to find no surface action. Electriced back to were dad got the first hit and anchored 30m on the windward side of the weed bed. While i was tying off the anchor dad get straight into it. "Oh Im on" i look around and dad has hooked up. After a grooling fight and in comes a nice 103cm Barra. Few photos and fish bac in the water. About 5 casts later Dad had another hit but a miss strike. A quite spell hit but we new the fish were around so we decided to sit it out and wait for the chew time. While the barra decided turn off for a while we were talking bout the Stance for Barra fishing. So after a few trialed stances we come up with the "ONE". Well now with the stance all ready to rubble ( Thanx to "JM and Lyndon for ther post") the barra had turned back on. While i was trailing new things and lures dad ( MR PERSISTANT) had the 130mm Black and Gold slick rig with a slow retreive had hooked up. After another good fight dad landed a nice 101cm model. Well i was a little ticked off and deceded to go bak to the same lure a retrieve. I was changing my lure and Dads on again ( 3-0 ) i was shattered well i was getting a flogging and an ear full and dad lands a nice 92cm barra. Well it was time to even up the score. Well i had kicked dad off the front deck and got serious. Had the stance ready and i was "ON" Couple jumps and then he decided to head for the sticks. I had my thumb on the spool and was giving it to him but he had me and snap off he gets with a few leaps of relief. Well it was still ( 3-0 ) and he was getting cocky. So i put another plastic on and was on a mission to catch up. Couple casts later and I was on. After a few little jumps a nice 87cm model hits the deck. WOW ( 3-1 ) i was on the comebak. Bak in the water and the S- Factor was out. 2nd cast later i was on again and another nice 83cm barra. Well i was catching up. Dad was a little nervous. The fishing went quite and we moved spots for the last 30mins fishing. Into another bay bout 200m up and anchor was out. First cast i hada hit ( I was not in the correct stance and was not concetrating = No hook up) well i nearly throw my rod overboard as DAD VS SON competition was heating up. Dad still had a 130mm slick rig on as i secretly changed to the 110mm. HE was pulling weed after weed as i was just comeing across the top. Well 10 mins was on the clock and Dad was still 1 up. I was in the middle of my retrieve and i was un concentrated and Rod tip positioning and foot stance was all up the creek and i missed the last chance to equalise. Well after a great arvo we ended up with 5 landed, 1 lost and 3 miss hits was a good 3hr session. Pulled out at 5:40 and headed for home while lost count of number boats at the ramp. Was a great day catching 5 barra and picking up an Apprenticeship and life is about to start.
Cheers Plastic_Magic
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. Ben
..... My old mate is notorious for it ( & often ends up with a fish too)
