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Thursday, 27 March 2014

SHADY WITH TOM AND WATTY

Shady Camp 27-3-14

After my little incident at Corobboree billabong where prop met rock at 6000rpm (and thanks to Frenchys Marine for getting me back on the water in just 1 day) I thought I had better take the boat for a quiet run before what is shaping up to be 35 days straight guiding, tough life I know.

The thought did cross our minds to head downstream to the mouth of Sampan creek to rustle up a feed of Threadys that were no doubt getting harassed by the other 40 odd boats in the car park but the tide was low and we didn't have all day so with that in mind, upstream we went.

Tom was gunning for a junior world record for oxeye tarpon and I was keen to give the all tackle length a nudge so we had a few casts and a little troll (dark side) and before you know it Tom is hooked up to the new pending male junior world record oxeye tarpon.

Landed, weighed, measured and released only time will tell but it is very exciting for us.


We got plenty more but none that i thought were worthy of the length record so we moved back to the barrage for a flick before home.
After catching eight or ten cute little barra on small plastics I grabbed my LJ Custom fly rod out and paired with an intermediate sinking line and a Rodgey Dodgey liddlebitalfbig pinkish thingo (I'm sure that's what its called) we had a ball catching our fair share of feisty little babies up to about 50cm.

The picture below is Toms first ever fish on fly and a barra at that!
What a day off school for him!


We did have to snap out of our games for a short while though when a bag full of steak and spare ribs decided to wade the barrage putting us out in the open with a leatherman, fly rod and one big hat between us and certain death! Fair to say he didn't care about us too much until he got a whiff of my citronella marinated carpet in the boat.



Fair dinkum though, with a pending world record, first barra on fly, wrestling a buff out of the boat and plenty of creamy soda in the esky this place is not only a paradise for hard core fishos but kids not to mention their super proud dads! 

We are so lucky! I hope that place never changes! 



Strike Hard Strike Often
Watty


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  1. FLY FISHING28 March 2014 at 15:12

    Woohooo!! Good on ya Tom!!! Great photos Watty!!! Yes agree....bloody beautiful paradise!!!

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