Back in the swing

Everybody has been busy in the last few weeks with the season now rolling along at last.

The fishing has been good most day's and plenty of fish to keep the anglers happy, both for the fly fishermen and the conventional fisho!

Here are a few pics to check out from this last week and I am sure Notso will post a few also

Rick Baobel with a 70cm barra fly caught from the beach

Ricky Baobel with a fine cobia caught on a soft plastic

Check out the bait schools on my sounder. This shows just how much bait is coming into the harbour. This was right at the entrance to the harbour being hammered by big queenies.

Unfortunately for a number of those queenies they were being caught by a few guy's in hire boats fishing in the area and killing every one of them.

If everyone that comes up here has to fill their freezers to have a good time, then it wont be long before we have no reason for those idiots to come here as the fishing will be just the same as where they live.

Queenies turn into fish icecream when frozen, yet some people have to kill everything that swims just because they can. If only these tourists could just have fun catching a few fish and releasing most, maybe taking enough for a feed but put a few back for next time.

Sonya & Tony's Week

Well, it was game on again for me last week, with Sonya and Tony fishing for 6 days, spending 2 days down the coast and 4 in the rivers. The fishing was quite special some days - up to 60 or so fish in the creek for the day, with another day producing over 50 barras, both on lures and live bait. Te pelagics were a little tough at times, however one afternoon we found a number of mackerel and some tuna - both longtail and macks which were eager to eat metal slugs cast into the feeding masses.

Sonya managed a great threadfin salmon on a lure one afternoon, while in the middle of another day, in a quiet(?) backwater, lunch
had to be delayed as mullet after mullet was eaten by masses of hungry barras

This nice golden trevally fought hard and after release we watched as a dolphin that was hanging around caught and ate it.