pike

We put the boat in yesterday with fish head breno with a plan to head out for dollie's, put it in the hacking got some livies and headed out around 7:00am. The seas were flat so we got to the southern fad in about half an hour, as we pulled up we could see lots of litte fish around and one big one sitting right on the buoy. Casted a livie about 4 meters off the buoy and the big one ran out and smashed the bait and ran straight around the other side of the fad. Breno quickly reversed the boat around the fad after it, then I could set the hook. The fish ran away from the fad thank god because I was only using a diwa 4000 with about 120 meters of 30 pound braid with 18kg leader not much stopping power for this fish. It did a few jumps but spent most of the fight about 40 meters below the boat. Eventully coming up so we could grab the leader and gaff it, the fight took about an hour, very happy the circle was in the corner of the jaw and we managed to land it. After we got home we weighed the fish and it weighed in at 25kg and the length was 160cm over all.

Thanks Mate, maybe I will try a different river

Hi, Im thinking about heading to tarana is there places to camp on the fish river?? Thanks

please put my name down had a blast last time

ill give it a try sounds tasty thanks mate jay

I went down late afternoon and arrived about 6-45 the tide was still coming in (plenty of time to get setup), there was a few boats already set up but no one in my spot thank god. All set and ready to start but still day light and tide coming in, good time for a beer. I started flicking a crome spinner just catching little choppers fun for a while but after about an hour of getting one after the other i lost interest, more beer. My mate breno arrived just as i turned on the lights and the incoming tide slowed, there were a few prawns just hanging above the weed (good sign). As breno set up the tide turned and the few prawns that were there dissapered, more waiting. After about an hour of the run out and the prawns charged at the same time my mate mark showed up (late as usual) the prawns were coming thick and fast and they were huge. At about 2:00am everyones arms were about to fall off so we headed back to the ramp and went home. The next morning we weighed and cooked the prawns and we all ended up with about 3-4 kilo's each of the tastiest prawns ever.

hello sounds like a good day can u put me on the list jay pike