I needed a fix to settle the IBD down. Mondy would be busy with the ABT so decided to give Lenthalls a crack. Gotta love the 4 stroke. All of my usual partners in crime couldn't make it so thought I'd give Steve(Apollo) a go. (Bloody good decision - Steve is a top bloke.)
A plan was quickly hatched.
Met Steve at Lenthalls on Friday about lunchtime and off we went. Reports of Barra to 80cm were encouraging(thanks Warrior). Bit of a warm afternoon so by 3.30pm a shady tree was quickly located for a couple or 3 quenching bevies. "Jesus Steve it's 5 o'clock, spose we better have another go at em".
We made it out of the gate at 7.59pm. Steve managed a couple of 1/2 touches for the day.
We were back on the water at 6.15 am Saturday and fished the weed banks near the ramp. Steve had given up on the Barra and pulls out the bass gear. 4lb line and leader.
Steve had some family commitments to attend to so 2nd last cast is called at 7.25am. Out goes the Daiwa Shiner. 5 seconds into the retrieve and I hear the drag scream for maybe 1 second and the lure is spat. The leader was badly chaffed.
Dropped Steve at the ramp and continued on until 11.00am.
Lenthalls results Barra 1, Steve zip, Dave why do I bother? Ahh now I remember - afternoon tea in the shade.
Casting arm is still twitching. Only 1 cure - Mondy is only 1 1/2 hours up the goat track.
Didn't get onto the dam until 3.00pm and went straight up to F. Wanted to get away from the ABT boys. Worked some bays on my way back to H and found a nice bay with the breeze blowing into it that had a few water lillies and weed growing. Never tried frogs before and after I heard what I assumed was a small boof(never heard one of them either), it was definately time to try.
2nd cast and the water erupted 10 feet from the boat. Lillies, frog, weed and a silver thing all in the air at the same time. Unfortunately the frog was not connected to the Barras mouth. I flogged the bay for at least 30 minutes. What an intro to frogging. Definately got to do that again. By now the sun is getting low, so time to head back.
I prefer casting but at the end of the day, a lap or 2 of the basin can be relaxing. So out go the HB's. As it turned out when you are by yourself at night with no moon, 3 rods trolling is 2 too many. You can imagine the chaos when I hooked up. What do you do first, fight the fish, knock the motor out of gear, turn the lights on or wind in the other lines. Somehow I managed to stay connected long enough to do all 4 and not lose the Barra.
After a 15 minutes fight up comes my new PB of 118 and into the net she slides. Quick pics on the mat but who is going to take a picture of me. Luckily a couple of blokes were at the concrete ramp not 2 minutes away. A long fight and too long out of the water required 5 minutes of resucitation but she finally swam away very strongly.
The casting arm had stopped twitching(IBD satisified) but my hand had the shakes. Time for a drink to celebrate.
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. The barra looks in good nick too, so I think the bass gear will definitely stay at home for Mondy trips
Mind you if the Shiner had stuck! Two barra in a row on 4lb line - could have started a trend!
- good work mate , specially when going solo. 
- bad luck 
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) Makes a mean drinking glass out of a coke can and good JB tea as well
