Elizabeth River

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Was talked out of Leaders Creek trip due to distance. Apparently the Barra had been going off in the Elizabeth. The Elizabeth has always failed me, but it is about 20 mins (as opposed to 1 hour 20) each way and has an awesome floating jetty.

Got:
Me: Large shovelnose shark. It kept banging its head from side to side which make me think it was a snapper.
Mate: Smaller wobble shark
Mate’s mate from Spain who had never fished before: 41cm Jack! On a small white plastic on a reel with 80lb mono as I didn’t have a spare light one… haha

Zero crabs too. Am starting to think these home made stainless steel ones might be dodge… might get a collapseable one or two as a quality control.

Story of the trip:
The wind! The Elizabeth is quite sheltered yet it was still difficult to even made it out to a side creek. It dropped off in the arvo but was something fierce in the morning. I hate getting wet!

Boat problems:
ZERO WATER!!!
Looks like I have solved that one…
and…
– handle fell off the winch
– lost the ability to go left or right on my leckie
– noticed when I filled up my petrol tank that it now constantly drips due at the connection. (Unsure if connection or jerry)

*sigh* not having the best of luck

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Bynoe – with the trevally!

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After the long weekend without the car, did a Saturday trip to Bynoe

Got:
Me: lots of small fish
Parkotas (PBO): lots of small fish
Mud (NFF): 93cm Brassy Trevally!

Story of the trip:
Got to be the Trevally. Mud was pretty familiar with the area but were weren’t having luck on the barra. Went to a mark I found last time with massive Trevally all around and the next thing he had hooked up! It was a long fight, and the fish just did not want to quit at the end.

Boat problems:
Once again a huge amount of water leaked out of the boat… an ongoing problem I haven’t figured out yet. So frustrating.

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Bynoe Harbour again

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A late start as I wasn’t repeating the fog issue. Found heaps of good marks, could not stop catching fish, they were all tiny!! Even the lures pulled in two line cods & one star gazer (ugliest fish ever?)

Got:
Mate: 53cm golden trevelly

Story of the trip:
After pulling in tiny sweet lip after tiny sweet lip I hooked a monster. After about 10 minutes and me letting him take a lot of line to tire himself out, expert angling, etc, I finally got him!!! A giant… BATFISH! I could have cried…

Boat problems:
Took the bung out and emptied 200 litres of water. Damn it!!!! I thought I fixed it, this didn’t happen a week ago. 🙁

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Bynoe Harbour

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Bynoe up at 4.15am, found some good marks, had a barra 80cm-100cm with a massive wound on his shoulder swim up to the boat and just chill, ran away when I tried to net him.

Got:
Me: 33cm goldie. Not much! No crabs either.

Story of the trip:
The fog!! Was the first ones to the ramp and it was so foggy we let the next 5 cars launch. Eventually we just went and went very very slowly. It cleared at 9am, but it meant we couldn’t hit the rockbar on high 🙁

Boat problems:
Oil light starting blinking. Caused me heartache until this forum pointed out it was just to remind me it was due to be changed. Also about 20litres came out of the bung, but I told myself it was just because I heavily washed it last week and it didn’t drain properly…

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Leeder’s Creek fishing trip

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Headed off to Leeders today, note that I should try to get there before sunrise, because the sun is exactly in your eyes, plus the dust of the road, was very difficult to drive.

Got:
Me: 45cm Queenfish, 2 bucks
mate: reasonable goldie, large cod 60+ cm

Story of the trip:
The largest crab was caught on fishing line! I thought I had a tree or something when I got a glimpse of the crab I slowly lowered him and got my mate to get the net… he plunged it in and I gave my best guess of placing him over it while we pulled it up… as soon as he saw daylight he dropped the bait but dropped right into the net! He was 19cm, but a bit empty.

Boat problems:
Boat was okay but some pinhead (me) forgot to put the clip down of the trailer… how I drove there and launched without it coming off is a mystery but it went bang taking the trailer in. Saftey chain to the rescue!!

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