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...and can someone tell me why the elcho mob got awesome creek while we got stuck with "poor creek", "moderate creek" and "only on the right tide with the right bait under a quarter waning moon with gossamer thin trace and a good luck rabbits foot creek" ???????

haha awesome creek is what i called it so people out here don't look at there charts and find it, hell
i even hide from the planes when they fly over. only one other fella fishes the creek and we want to keep it quite.

Gotta love a day like that.

great stuff mate, they just make it more enjoyable...

i remember a great day i had off about a year ago or it may have been a sicky.. and snuck off into the harbour somewhere, anyway didn't get 60 fish, but landed prob 15, 4 being over 80cm...

sadly im back living in cairns..

Fished a creek like that near Nhulunbuy, the bloke said "hardly anyone fishes here", and two minutes later I pulled in a bird's nest of mono with three lures in it.

Bit different at Elcho tho, ya lucky bugger.

i tried to go back to awesome creek today but mis judged the tide a bit

i went back to awesome creek today

i hooked 2 fish in the first couple of casts but lost both of them at the boat so i got my poop together
and landed the next fish


i landed another 6 in the next few hours.

then i caught a largish estuary cod, it is about now that i should mention that i forgot to
stick my fishing pliers in the boat, and as i was getting the lure out of its gob
the bladdy thing flipped around and hooked me. frig it sucks being attached to
one end of a lure while a 4 or 5kg cod is flapping on the other end.



haha i handle broken bones ok but i am not very good with blood.
heading home i had to pull up and lay on the floor for a little while
because i could feel myself passing out :oops:
anyway it took me 3 hours to get back to where i left the trailer and thankfully
my mrs was there wondering why it was taking me so long so she took me to the clinic.

i got my mrs to take some photos cos i though you lot might get a laugh out off it.







there mustn't be much on telly as about 50 kids came for a look







haha it felt awesome when it came out.

Jeez that looks sore. Cant wait to head over there to catch up with Damo Huggins for a fish. Should be a great weekend.

Well done Sheps keep up the good work

Were they barbless hooks? Should have come out pretty easy?

I'd be keepin that creek location very quite, but I think I can analyse the mangrove leaves and in relation to the height of the clouds in the background I should be able to successfully pinpoint your exact location to within 3.75meters...



Some good fish ya pulled out of there.

Turtle wrote:Were they barbless hooks? Should have come out pretty easy?

I'd be keepin that creek location very quite, but I think I can analyse the mangrove leaves and in relation to the height of the clouds in the background I should be able to successfully pinpoint your exact location to within 3.75meters...



Some good fish ya pulled out of there.

new lure and i hadn't squashed the barbs yet took the doc a bit to get it out.
was her first go at a hook though.

Ahh dam.. Oh well good experience for you anyway!

That reminds me.. I better squash some more of my barbs... The amount of lures I buy I cant keep up.

great pics, great post, hats off to ya!!

Ha ha your a legend, top write up

Gotta love the old I cant look pic while all the kids are doing the I cant lookl away face...

I know the feeling and feel your pain mate..

What do you do out there sheps?

Chris

Nice work Sheps,
Don't worry your not alone, I went very pale when I got a treble in my thumb a few years ago,
Mine was a Murry Cod though.