Love RDO'S

[Shawn 66]

Morning All ,
Had an RDO yesterday so the plan was to hit the Pine about 0200 ,to try to hunt for a jewie . Woke up at midnight , bloody rain . Woke up again at 0100 , bloody rain . Woke up again at 0200 , you guessed it , bloody showers . Bugger it , thought I , it was to good an opportunity to miss , I am going .Got to the ramp ( Deepwater Bend ) at about 0230 , one other trailer in the park , and launched the boat .
Knowing the bannana's were running , went up to the bridges to see if I could score a few for bait in the castnet .Managed to get about a kilo and also some nice herring . Motored up to a likely looking spot , anchored up and set the lines . Not much to report for the next few hours , except 4 bream about 300mm , which went back . Wind started to get up , and a few showers had me thinking about giving it away . Just as I was about to call it , the dead stick out he back went off .Anyway ,to cut a short story , shorter , this one ended up in the boat .
She went about 70 and weighed 2.3kg gilled and gutted .
She was caught on a Straddic 4000Fj coupled with an Ugly Stick . Line as 15 pound mono . Bait was a good size live bannana .
Thanks for reading ,
Shawn

[gunna]

Always nice to see those early morning efforts rewarded. Good stuff.

[grinner2]

Persistence pays off, well done mate !

[kingcray]

another good fish from the pine, well done shawn

[Si]

nice one mate. great fish for the piney

[Shawn 66]

Thanks for the comments gents .Funny thing is , after spending nearly every day off I have had on the Pine for a couple of years , I got the sh!ts with it and started fishing Somerset . This was the first time I have been down the Pine for ages.
Shawn

[BAR UP]

Enjoy your RDO'S mate after all the slagging off in the media lately. Where do you work, Peter.

[Shawn 66]

Enjoy your RDO'S mate after all the slagging off in the media lately. Where do you work, Peter.

Doing a highrise in South Brisbane at the moment Peter,
Shawn