A story with a happy ending......
- sarrge
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A story with a happy ending......
A session targeting barra with Seano in a coastal creek sounded like a great idea so I volunteered as deckie - then I got the details.
Those of you that know me would know just how much i relish the early start - i'm such a morning person.......
So a 4am start from Millner resulted in us being at our destination by 6.30am - lovely sunrise, heaps of bait but no barra.
Trolling.........Trolling........Trolling........Lure Change.........Trolling....... Nothing!
"Bugger this" says Sean, "Let's head up further and flick the snags" So we head off upstream finding lots of fishy looking water with lots of snags...... Nothing!
So we decide to leave. Heading down to the mouth again, Sean stops the boat, "Let's just troll the rest of the way". OK
We set off........Sean trolling and me trying to select a lure "This one looks shiny" I thought to myself, tying on an Axe (the lure, not the wood chopping implement)
I throw the lure out and let out a heap of line..............trolling.........trolling........
BANG!!! I'm on!!! and I look back to see a beautiful silver barra clear the water. "Thant's a good size" yells Sean, stopping the boat and quickly bringing his line in (all the while, mine is stripping line). Then i look down at my reel to see that I can actually count the individual loops of line left on my reel - and it's less than ten! I quickly thumb the reel and Sean reverses the boat so I gain a bit of line. And then it's back into it - slow steady pressure, slowly gaining ground, Sean offering advice. Then she's at the boat and straight into the net for a new PB at 94cm for Sarrge
A quick measure and a couple of pictures and back into the water she goes to fight another day.
Those of you that know me would know just how much i relish the early start - i'm such a morning person.......
So a 4am start from Millner resulted in us being at our destination by 6.30am - lovely sunrise, heaps of bait but no barra.
Trolling.........Trolling........Trolling........Lure Change.........Trolling....... Nothing!
"Bugger this" says Sean, "Let's head up further and flick the snags" So we head off upstream finding lots of fishy looking water with lots of snags...... Nothing!
So we decide to leave. Heading down to the mouth again, Sean stops the boat, "Let's just troll the rest of the way". OK
We set off........Sean trolling and me trying to select a lure "This one looks shiny" I thought to myself, tying on an Axe (the lure, not the wood chopping implement)
I throw the lure out and let out a heap of line..............trolling.........trolling........
BANG!!! I'm on!!! and I look back to see a beautiful silver barra clear the water. "Thant's a good size" yells Sean, stopping the boat and quickly bringing his line in (all the while, mine is stripping line). Then i look down at my reel to see that I can actually count the individual loops of line left on my reel - and it's less than ten! I quickly thumb the reel and Sean reverses the boat so I gain a bit of line. And then it's back into it - slow steady pressure, slowly gaining ground, Sean offering advice. Then she's at the boat and straight into the net for a new PB at 94cm for Sarrge
A quick measure and a couple of pictures and back into the water she goes to fight another day.
I used to have a handle on life.......then it broke.
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Re: A story with a happy ending......
not how u start but how finish... PB as well
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Re: A story with a happy ending......
nice fish mate. top work
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Re: A story with a happy ending......
Outstanding sarrge,,,,That's a ripper fish mate
where is the one seano got
where is the one seano got
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Re: A story with a happy ending......
Onya sarrge, reckon you missed out on a cm at least on the mat
fish are skinny, the ocean is fat
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Re: A story with a happy ending......
bl..dy sweet as. I hope you thanked Seano for getting you out of bed so early? And I dont see a picture of this lure you speak of
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Re: A story with a happy ending......
Should have left the brag mat shot out looks like a horse would have called it 110cm from the head shot!
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Re: A story with a happy ending......
A good 95, well done Sarrge.
" YOUTH is a GIFT "
"AGE is an ART ""Doesn't mean you get any smarter..just wrinkled and cracked".
"No angler watches nature in a passive way...He enters into its very existence." (John Bailey...Reflections on a Waters Edge)
"Govern a Family as you would catch a small fish....Very Gently." (Chinese Proverb)
"Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish." (Rafael Sabatini...1857-1950)
I pray that one day God sends me a fish so big that, when talking of it...I have no reason to lie.
"AGE is an ART ""Doesn't mean you get any smarter..just wrinkled and cracked".
"No angler watches nature in a passive way...He enters into its very existence." (John Bailey...Reflections on a Waters Edge)
"Govern a Family as you would catch a small fish....Very Gently." (Chinese Proverb)
"Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish." (Rafael Sabatini...1857-1950)
I pray that one day God sends me a fish so big that, when talking of it...I have no reason to lie.
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Re: A story with a happy ending......
Alas, the lure is attached to an old crab pot in the mud at the bottom of the creek!
I forgot to mention that seano did get a rat when we were casting at the snags.....
I forgot to mention that seano did get a rat when we were casting at the snags.....
I used to have a handle on life.......then it broke.
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Re: A story with a happy ending......
Nice work
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Re: A story with a happy ending......
Massive shoulders!
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Re: A story with a happy ending......
Nice fish mate, congrats on the new PB!
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Re: A story with a happy ending......
Well done Sarrge!
That is a very nice fish, and bigger than my personal PB...
Now it makes me want to work on that!
Well done!
It is true that Seano is a good guide...
Have a good day,
Pecheur
That is a very nice fish, and bigger than my personal PB...
Now it makes me want to work on that!
Well done!
It is true that Seano is a good guide...
Have a good day,
Pecheur
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Re: A story with a happy ending......
Great fish
Cheers Craig
Cheers Craig
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