HAS THE WIND GONE - AND A BIT OF AN UPDATE ON EVERYTHING?

From all reports the wind should be dropping off and hopefully the build up is coming, our household needs a fishing fix, but the old girl has been having treatment for the last couple of months on her casting shoulder and my back has me bent over like Groucho Marx (for those who may remember him) so if we went out it would be the one armed deckie with the crippled crab captain.  

But all is looking great weather wise for the BYNOE SHEEP STATION STAKES on the 20th and 21st September at Sand Palms.  (More to come on that soon)

...and just for a bit of FUN at the Stakes...

Recently I had a in depth discussion with Graeme Williams who most know is a flyfishing guide working out of Crab Claw for the last 20 yrs, he was at Barra base from the late 80's and has certainly seen some different flies thrown at Barramundi and to a lesser degree King Threadfin, somehow after a few wines, the topic turned to the little contest he has going  between Wayne Williams and me with the Sunrise to Sunset Fly STS and my Barra a cast fly BAC.

Graeme has  always provided the basic advice to people that in our pursuit of  fishing fiscality (his words) fly's need to be generic, by that he meant its no good throwing half a guinea fowl at barra on the flats  when 10kg of Queenfish cruises by you want something everything eats (like pizza).

After further bullshit we were going nowhere and Graeme said lets include this in the Sheep Station Stakes, a successful No Barra fly ( NBF).  He reckons  it doesn't  exist so we agreed to see who can send or outline a fly that barra wont eat. 


Before it gets ridiculous, better make some basic rules

The Rules (within reason)

1. One hook only no bigger than 4.0 and no smaller than size 2.
2. must have at least a combination of color out of any material.
3. No longer than 10cms.
4. No hidden impregnation of foreign material such as Rid or Bushmans.
5. Has to be a witness to it catching bugger all .

UPDATE:  Views on this blog have reached 42,888 and we have over 1000 likes on the facebook site, and reaches on it varies between subjects.  On one post we put up photos of whales ( I like whales) but we only got about 40 people reached on that, so not everyone likes pictures of whales maybe?  but when we shared a link on the netting controversy in the East it went feral...in two days we have nearly 20,000 (not kidding) reached and a heap of shares, it led to attempt at bullying with threats from another site, and a lot of information from international fishers (both fly and darkside) in relation to similar things that are happening in other parts of the world.   Here is the original post if you are still interested, it is a hot topic in the East with meetings being held over the next few weeks to try and fix things I believe... ... http://www.fishingworld.com.au/news/permit-massacre

So the fishing should be hotting up and hopefully we will see you out on the water, ours will be the cripples boat...and remember with it warming up the crocs will be getting frisky so