had the chance to fish this great fishery on the weekend in the bassin qld comp,i have never fished this dam and on arriving the prospect of finding fish lessoned on seeing how big this water was looking out over the dam was awsome and got the nerves going.we started early on friday morning with some advise from the locals we headed to some weed beds and started casting ,five hours later arms aching no fish no bumps and a bit dissapointed,second session stared early saturday i headed down towards dingo island and found some nice edges to try, landed my first awoonga barra 810mm and in stunning condition,this was the only fish i got in five hours but was happy.third session started and was going into the night so was keen to head down to the same spot,wind blowing 20knots and uncomfortable but stuck at it then whack hooked up for five seconds then gooone,bit further on another hit and my little wife was on ,on for five minutes one good jump a fish of about 900mm gets airborn and spits the slickrig,number two gooone. drifted a bit further wife on again then gooone i cast then all hell cuts loose ,i get hit by a big fish the first run was at least fifty metres and fast straight out into the dam fifteen minutes of fighting and not even seeing this fish when finally she comes up beside the boat 25.5kg of silver beauty,on landing her and finding out this to be my pb by 20mm at 1090 and 8kg heavier we got some wonderful pics of it from all angles and the final one of her in the water as she swam off ,thats when the dissapointment started ,my beautiful wife had helped me lower the fish back in then picked the camera back up it slipped from her grasp and straight over the side into 60ft of water.the last we saw of it was a small glow dissapearing into the depths.the high of the fight and the low of the lost camera was strange.a few minutes to sit back and think and assess what happened still didnt help but as we think now we have a great memory of this fish and there is heaps more this size to catch.i will be back to try again and very keen to break that mark.cheers AL ps no pics as you can see
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...dont worry about photos....They mean nothing.....Fishing was hard......theres allways next time
in that photo its a 107 