A phone call from the “Broken Flagons” set the
wheels in motion for a trip to a special Kakadu Billabong.
Unfortunately, work meant that I had to wait until Friday to join them
so leaving straight from the office it was a nice smooth drive to the
start of the dirt then only 25ks to go to a camp fire and a cold beer. 2
hours later (for 25ks) on some filling removing corrugations, never seen
the track so bad, but the cold beer never tasted so good at the end!
Mossie
dome set up, a beer, talk with Marty and Justine, a beer, looked at
their photos of some great fish, a beer, a beer then off to bed at 1
am!!
5.30am
alarm to launch the boat then it was off into a fantastic sunrise with
not a breath of wind. After only 6 casts to the edge of the weeds
produced a Barra into the boat and not too many casts later a Saratoga
had the same fate. In many ways catching fish was just the icing on the
cake as the scenery and wildlife activity is just priceless and I can
never get over how lucky and privileged we are to have this on our
doorstep.
Throughout
the day there was a constant stream of fish to the boat, Barra, Togas,
Long Toms, Archers, Sooties, Catties and not one Tarpon!!!
The camp fire in the evening rounded off a great day, in a great location with great company.
The 25ks out on Sunday had not got any smoother, still took 2 hours and removed the last fillings I had left.
Remember; “You’ll never never know if you never never go. Get out there and fish”
Tight lines
Jim Churchley
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