WHAT A BALL - CORROBOREE

Just back from Corroboree, what a ball we had, bit of a rough start though, Cathie had me up at 8am which was horrible, then we had to rush breakfast and got out to Corroboree about 10am.   There were three other boats there and they were fishing on the 'dark side'.  We spoke to them a couple of times and they apparently could not get a fish in the boat.   We didn't have that trouble.  Bloody tarpon, to use Watties description, there are a gazillion out there.

But what a glorious, picturesque place it is. Just great to be out there.

First off the water was around 29 degrees when we put in.   The water was bloody magnificent, clearer than usual, but in some spots there was a green growth algae type of thing, but otherwise very clear.

We initially tried small clousers on DNA which used to work well.  It did on tarpon...they bloody near jumped out of the water into the boat to grab them.

We went to some of the spots that often fire, but they were very quiet...except for tarpon.  So because of the tarpon we put on bigger feather flies three and four inches long.  Didn't that make a difference.

Started to get into the Toga on the edges.  They were rolling and jumping up at the dragon flies, could have got some great photos if I had any patience! There is some weed about, but it was pretty easy to fish through with a weed guard. Hopefully there might be another quick flush which gets rid of the low weed areas, but it is still fishable.

If you have kids or someone wanting to have a ball fly fishing, tie up some small flies on No. 4's for the tarpon, use a sinking line on a 3 or 4 wt and you will have the time of your life.  Whilst there are heaps of small ones there  are some big ones too.

We were both using sinking (dredging ) lines, Cathie had a 300grn on a 9wt and I had a 250grn on a 6wt, and you needed them in the current to get down, because there has been more erosion and some spots that were less than a metre deep in the past are nearly 2 metres now.

We pulled out just before 2pm because it was bloody hot, and the water at that stage was 34 degrees.  The toga were rolling and there was boofing which there hadn't been in the morning, and the tarpon had shut down a bit.   Should have fished on, but needed a cold beer.

Very busy boat ramp when we pulled out, and a full carpark?

The water is lower than it often is when the billabong is opened, but there is still heaps up on the floodplain.

This is the cut through, water is down already 

Tried to get the green film in a photo but it is not that clear.

One of the eight toga we got.

One of the five barra we got. 

You may notice that there are no photos of me.....Cathie refused to take them......... apparently because of my beard.

Tried to get the tarpon action because the water was boiling with them.

The lilies looked like a snow field out there.