With the “once in a generation” wet season we have had, we were all keen to get down to Shady camp.

We found the road was ‘better than expected’ and hit the barrages first thing. Catching fish was reasonably easy, however they were all fairly small.

Tom and Mark F’s boat got over 10. I got 8 for the day, including one on a popper. Mark R wasn’t managing to get anything, but fortunately pulled up our only legal fella at 55cm right at the end of the day.

Story of the day was two helifishing tours landed right next to us at the spot Mud used to take me 10 years ago – never seen that happen before.