A fella my two sons work with (actually he's their boss) has been keen to have a fish for a while, new to town so I took the opportunity the other day.
He's by no means experienced and the barra have been a bit quiet so we shot up the lake for the arvo yesterday to see if we could wake up a few sooties.
An hour of not getting a touch decided the next move, we slipped around the corner and into the gorge to a spot it drops off into 18 metres. A couple of big tremblers and a basic intro into jigging had him attached to a nice one on the first drift.
The fish dragged him around the boat for a while while he got the pump and wind thing sorted. Both dog and I weren't short of good advice (though dog seemed to be directing much of her's to the fish) and eventually the thing surfaced in front. At that instant 'shock and awe' took on a new meaning for him.
Once the heart steadied he was back into it, we got nothing until I was about to pull stumps for greener fields when I noticed he had been free spooling the drop for a bit longer than normal. The penny dropped when I saw the line heading upstream as well as disappearing straight down.
"That'd be a fish." was my comment receiving a blank look in response. I suggested he might want to flick the bail over, wind and strike. He did and a smaller one about 8 kgs took him for another walk.
With dusk on us we headed back down to a large area of weed bank, water depth between 4 and 1 metres. This time it was a quick lesson on slow blooping a popper. My turn this time, three fish in about half an hour to wind up proceedings.
On the whole not a bad effort for the afternoon, certainly beats the cricket
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Not sure I get your point Dick since.......anything beats the cricket. (Not a cricket fan...only time I ever played I was bowled for what Im told was a golden duck.....later they foolishly let me bowl an over.....Is it really possible to score 24 from a single over?...never mind)On the whole not a bad effort for the afternoon, certainly beats the cricket
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Yes dead right they are passable on the chew those ones, although I still know them its a Powertail so let them gonoundz wrote:Top "silver cobbler" Dick Used to catch them in the nets in Argyle when I worked there ..............truth be known, those ones are not bad to eat ....we used to sell to the restaurants in Perth
Had a feed of fish and chips up at the pub at the lake a few times. Not bad with a bit of batter over the top.
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You've definately taken the chasing of the mighty Powertail to new levels Dick! Targeting them with suface lures and now cranking em up from the deep! Won't be long before we see a feature article in Fishing World "Deadly deep water jigging techniques for Kimberley Kings" They sure go pretty hard when they get to that size. I reckon if it puts a bend in ya rod and pulls some decent string it's all good
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