Just back from four days out at Bynoe. The tides and weather indicated should be great fishing, but from Saturday on the fishing seemed to get a bit harder for us. I shouldn't whinge, we normally kill a pig out there and get onto spots that are a fish a cast. Didn't happen this time, unless you count two fish in two casts and forget the other fifty casts after that which didn't catch any. The last day was a OFD (One Fish Day).
But we did catch fish, just not in the numbers we have been spoilt with in the past. I think it may have been Cathies new orange top that scared them off. We were dredging with 300grn and 250 grn lines in a couple of holes where there were heaps of steelback and blue salmon rolling, but we only managed half a dozen or so of them. They were great fun because they put up such a fight, and it would be fun to get onto some really big blues, because it they have the same fight as the smaller ones they would have to be awesome.
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| Go the Blues!!!!(Couldn't help it) |
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| One of the Steel backs that was hit by a bigger fish! |
Graeme and Craig were getting into Barra in some of the creeks, Lenny had on board a Victorian crew, Mick, Colin, Brian and Hughie ( From The Council of Victorian Fly Fishing Clubs ) who got fish, don't know how they all went on Thursday, but hope they killed the pig that we missed. I think Dottie was going to be out there too. It was great to have a chat with the Victorians and spoke to them about a Saltwater section in the Australian Fly Fishing Museum in Tassie. When we last saw them they were trying to finish a table of mud crabs.
Les and Irene got into fish, Les got a 120 Jewie and a couple of other good ones, Irene however had the same mojo problem as us I think. Noel even got a keeper barra right at the boat ramp, but we could not hook at Barra. Dave Friebel fished with us for one day and only got his barra when he was out of our boat fishing alone in his. (Might have some meaning there), Captain Watty, his Dad, Uncle and mate 'Nama' were out there too, although I think they fished Dundee.
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| Dave...managed a barra without us, but it was hard going. |
We fished with Dave along heaps of flats, saw schools of fish, in one there were four or five threadies being led by some barra, but we could not get them on a hook. Very frustrating. We did however manage a few pelagics later in the day or it looked like no fish on the boat. Must have lost our mojo out there somewhere. Dave will probably put a bit of a story together about his fish, but it sounds like the fish finally bit out of sheer frustration at the fly being cast near it all the time. Did I mention it was hard out there.
Now I know its a small world, but Dave is from a small town (well railway siding anyway) called Rainbow in Victoria and that night at Sand Palms (The Shelter for the homeless Mob) we were talking to some blokes who actually were catching fish, and a couple were mates of Dean Cummins (the other Rainbow Warrior) dad from Rainbow.
Word of warning, if you are at Sand Palms...don't mention telstra.
Just on Sand Palms, here they are!!!! delivering hospitality on the High seas. Marcus in in the front looking a bit unhappy because it was his last day, he's heading back to Newcastle then over the Canada. Nina too was leaving on Thursday so we wish them both well.
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| It's a BLUE boat too!!! |
Now we can speculate what was wrong for us, but these cloud formations may have the answers
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| Is this a 'black hole' that sucked up all the fish? |
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| Is this an 'Alien' fishing craft??? |
Truth is, there were fish there, we saw some huge trevally and what looked like a black and orange queenie, strange colour but definitely more like a queenie than a trevor, but we just never had the mojo to catch them....
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| The only fish on a 'One Fish Day' |
Wednesday may have been a one fish day, but did I mention................its the day that the........
Blues Won!!!
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