My Personal Best Silver Trevally On Lure

Catch Report 17/11/2006

Was on MSN messaging with Jialiang the day before and he told him I might go for a lure on friday late arvo and he was interested. Though he still had a paper on the coming monday, it didn't bother him, as it'll be his last. How fast, soon he'll graduate and leave sydney for good. Nonetheless, we should not be bothered with these and I told him I had a meeting on friday mid-arvo. This meeting was emailed as an urgent one. Still, I attended it only to realised the urgency was due nonetheless to my comments I made in my annual progress report. In it I specified the possibilty of time-constraints to include experimental results and was hoping to axe it and replaced with my simulated findings. Guess it was not received well by my supervisor and he kept on pressuring us to get one going at least for validation, and that means more findings tailoring an experiment for my control system. He kept on pursuing the fact that time is running out for me and that the uni had a strict policy on us postgrads to finish on time, so basically his intentions is to stop any of us from extending our stay. FINE! I'll speed up and give WHATEVER i can give! I was stressed hearing that and proceeded to meet up with Jialiang at Iron Cove.

Once there, jialiang saw my tired expression and told me in chinese not to stress. He said if I got a 40cm bream run, i'll be stress free. He had reached first and by then, he had already caught 4 flatties. I rigged up my favourite bloodworm grub which I always liked to use while there. Within a few casts later, I felt one of my twitch had some weight when I wind in the slack and off it goes... zzzzz... yeehaa!!! This was a good fish, as the kix sang for a few times. Suddenly Jialiang saw the shape and called for a trevally! Indeed, the head shakes tells it all as bream don't do that. From the water it doesn't look that big but when it was near our feet, I realised this was no ordinary size! I told Jialiang that it's gonna be difficult to hoist it up and he went down the slopy banks to help me lip grip. Stupid berkley pocket lip gripper is a shit product as it doesn't clamp on the fish mouth properly! So Jialiang had no choice but to grab the leader and swoop it up. So the mandatory photo taking session had to be in place only to have the battery stuffed up again! Argh! Luckily Jialiang brought his digital camera (1st time i realised man!) and help me took some happy snaps before I speared the fish in only to do it in a shitty way! Oh well, the trev is fine and it swam away after getting adjusted. I immediately told Jialiang I'm stressed free! Because I caught a 39cm silver trevally which is my personal best on lure!!

Well, that was the only highlight of the session. I kept on with the grub only to have it's tail snipped off by puffers. Tried with the pumpkinseed with same fate. Decided to give pinkie a go and sprayed some Stimulate. Jialiang saw it and asked if this thing will work. I told him maybe and on the first cast, I got a 40cm flattie... He was mumbling after that... hahaha...

Then, he wanted the spray from me for all his lures! hahahaha... We got to the drain and I changed to another smilin jack colour which is the brown trout. Did the mandatory spray and after numerous casts, I had a take and it was another similar size flattie. The similar things they did was to swallow both my smilin jacks all the way into their gobs! Had a tough time removing the treble out but Jialiang helped me with his long-nose plier and he sent him away, but seems it had suffered serious injuries! Anyway, brown trout caught its 1st fish finally! Happy too.

Ronald