Quantity Instead Of Quality

With an overcast and slight drizzle day ahead, the forecast was gonna be a thunderstorm day. Thought I'll take the gamble and head out in the morning seeing that the wind was almost non-existent and most importantly, I've got no Myer! It's been a long time since I've been back to an old place and there I was early in the morning with a calm glassy water and slight drizzle. As the water was quite high already, I thought I'll try and use the 1.5g squidgy head again with a jointed worm to do my fish seeking again. Bites were thick and fast and the worm was gone on the 1st cast. The incoming tide current wasn't that strong and so I'll change to a lighter head. Used the bloodworm wriggler and subsequent casts later, landed a small 28cm. Then the mayhem continued when I was getting confident bites and refining my technique to get more positive hookups. Thought it was gonna be a hot session and therefore took an instructional video to record the action.

A tailor? Hahaha... And the slippery fishes doesn't like my hands either! DIU NA SENG!!! Kept getting spiked the whole entire time. Goofy vid.. goofy angler.. and this goofy fish..

The action was kinda like on and off. But most noticeably is when the sun was up and the bites seemed to be down. But luckily the tide was like prematurely outgoing even though I thought it wasn't supposed to start that early. Oh well, then the bites came back but only when I had to use the current and work the drift of a 1gramer head. The wriggler was badly thrashed after 5-6 fishes and I thought the more bulkier Gulp grub will make it sink easier. After the 1st success and knowing the fishes are there, I took a vid on the usage of grub albeit editing away the first 2 unsuccessful casts.

Ronia: "well.. let's try another-gain.." ANOTHER-GAIN?! What kind of fuctup english is that? hahahahaha... Based on the vid, I'll say that's the best fight. This particular one swam into the drain and I had like a split second to steer the line away from the protruding concrete edge. Fully respected this 29'er. (But they never ever let me hold still for a cradle shot! Diu!)

That was about it. Roughly estimated about 15 breams and some tailors and flatheads. Here's some more pics that I compiled, but I think it's really redundant to keep showing bream pictures! They all looked the same!!! Hahahaha...

Not bad for a 2 hour session albeit getting really wet and spiked by a few breams. At least got my vids which wouldn't be made possible if not for the hot bites.

Ronald

Unexpected Quickie

Went for a quickie few days ago as I had a prior arrangement with Chen for a night session down at our local spot. With the moderate winds blowing, I randomly hit the Cooks for a quick one. Was damn surprised that the place was quite shielded from the winds even though I could see trees swaying on the way there. Not that comfortable in the end when I had to put up with the light drizzles on and off in a thunderstorm forecast day. Rigged up a 1g head with the worm and found out that it was impossible to work it properly in a fast moving current. Canned the idea of finesse and went with a head I haven't been using for ages, the squidgy 1.5g. It was much easier controlling the drift but the bites weren't converting to hookups. Took me quite awhile in various spots I thought could hold fish till I came onto the drain that's right infront of my parked car. A just legal bream did the suicidal stunt by knocking onto the lure when I was about to bring it up.

Yup, suicidal indeed as yet another unfortunate 'eye-hooking' experience for me. This time round, this poor bream was not lucky. It got onto its eye and I had to do a little 'surgery' to remove it. Sad.. Anyway, continue plugging around the drain and I knew I was working over some reefy areas when I was bringing up shits like coral rocks and disgusting 'brain-like-looking' formations. No guts no glory and how true was that when some bites became a solid bite. Zzzz.. off it goes on one good run and then the 'current' fight ensued. Good thing I like about Cooks is that if you want to feel extra weight, the current helps in this department when the fish decided to use it. All is good as I can see the lure was in its mouth. Again, harrowingly hoist this bugger up and measured 36cm (Cooks-pb).

A classic good hookup to the corner of the jaw and with the grass being wet, I couldn't lie body down to release it. No choice but to 'spear' it in, hahaha! It swam away straightaway no dramas whatsoever. Time was up and Chen had called-in for the impending night ops, well.. no joy though.

Ronald

Bloody Flies!

Last weekend saw me and Chen darting out for a quick session before work in Myer. We made our way to another new spot in Cooks to avoid the wind. Looking at the watch we knew we had only less than an hour. Chen's 1st cast got him a good run on Tierra and not a bad fish at 33cm taken on his usual deadly worm.

I was just getting hits and there but could never hook up. Not until when I moved further upstream whilst Chen was still diligently working his area, then I managed to hook up a 28cm on a pseed mullet using the gama head.

And what do you know.. snagged.. KNNBCCB!!! Seeing that the time was almost up, I discard the idea to re-rig and so off we go.

The next day, I was off from work while Chen couldn't resist not fishing and thus called in sick from Myer. I had wanted to do a marathon which will consist of a last light bassing at Penrith but Chen had to meet his girlfriend and so canned the idea. Left for Cooks again as the northerly winds were blowing hard out. 1st stop was to try a pipe bridge that Rocky sent some pics to show me. Bloody hell, it only took a few casts to snag our plastics! Gave up with that place and proceeded to another street directory searched place to suit the winds. Sms'ed Rock that place and being a super resourceful Cooks fisherman, he found us in no time. Before he had ruck up, Chen did his usual 1st cast wonder by hooking up another good bream at 34cm this time round.

After that, it became quiet. And like I said to Chen, Cooks always seemed to present itself as a spot that once you've hooked up one, that's the end of it.. True indeed, as the rest of the session was dull and the most irritating of all, BLOODY FLIES!!! They were attacking us non-stop, fly into my ears, my face, and my mouth!!! KNNBCCB!!! Want to fish comfortably also cannot! Me in the other end, got haunted again by the flatties, hooking up 4 including these 2 which are better sizes.

Burnt, thirsty and tired, we called it quits while Rocky with his more and more and MORE newly bought japanese lures, had to continue at other place to cure his breaming itch, NOT MY FAULT!

Ronald

Breaming In Hot Spring

With a not so highest high tide, and a northerly blowing these few days during lunch time, I went out to the current talk-of0the-town (my town anyway) spot to try and cure the lure itch. After helping my supervisor's tutorial yesterday, I was contemplating to either go Kyeemagh tackle shop or go for a lure. I brought my tackle out anyway and whilst driving past Princes Highway, Rocky called me. He said he wanted to fish for awhile and thus made me changed my mind. Told him I'm going to a new spot and directed him the street name. Straight up he knew where I was going and drove up to meet me. Upon reaching there, the wind wasn't what I expected to be right from behind, instead, slightly slanted. I was there 1st and started rigging up a new worm on the 1/22 gama. 1st cast from a small window of mangroves it was met with ferocious bites. Back to the sweet spot it went again and suddenly I felt a thug. Striked and nothing, only to wind back and the whole bloody worm was gone! KNNBCCB!!! Confirmed not a toad, probably just a small bream which grab hold of the tail and yanked it out from the jighead. Decided to change to a used grub only to be decimated by toadies. Got sick of it and changed to a Ecogear Bugant on a 1g modded head. Switched over to another side of the mangroves and casted tight to the not-so-strong current. Just as I've hopped the bug closed to the tree, whammed... off it goes. Not a terrific fight but the take was explosive as I could see the silver flash coming out of nowhere and the next thing I knew the rod was buckled. Bugger it, this bream was hooked on the eye (AGAIN?!?!) and gave quite a good account of itself.

Measured 29cm and luckily it was hooked on the socket and missed the eyeball. Removed it gently and that guy swam away with gusto. Just as I was taking the pics, Rocky showed up. He was using his SX-40s while I still continued with the plastics. Changed to a 1/24 nitro with a new worm and caught another smallie.

Released the bugger and not long later, I snagged the nitro, KNNBCCB!!! A dollar jighead gone just a few casts. Rocky had a take on his SX but missed the hookup. Then I knew I had to go soon after being there for like less than an hour. Had to rush back to Uni to settle the IELTS test thing and also evening work in Myer. We parted ways and Rock went on to another spot.

Come Friday, it was yours truly going for a short lure again. Googled some new spots to suit the Northerly and went to recce that place. It's not that far from Chen's jewie spot and basically they all looked the SAME!!! Hahahaha... Reached the spot and it was bloody hot! The place looks the goods and I wasted no time. Rigged up a used (jointed) worm on the modded head. 1st cast and couple of twitches later I felt some bites. Stopped the worm and tried jiggling. The lure moved and striked, off it goes. Not a terrific fight but still good fun. To my surprise it was a good size breambo of 33cm.

Did a 'cradle' pose rather the usual 'pinching' pose, hehe.. There was a group of young and old folks picnic there and they all came over to have a look. One even took photos of the fish with his pro camera. They all kept asking me: "what bait u using?", "are you gonna eat it?", "do u often catch fish here?" those usual questions. Of course happy to answer those questions but if each and everyone ask that same set of questions, farking irritating man!!! Ask one of the pro camera guy to help me take a pic. After releasing the fish, they left like patrons in a cinema. Continued downstream for few hits and misses till I scored 2 Tarwhines. Yes, you heard it right, Tarwhines in this river?!

Small but it was my 1st time catching tarwhines on lures. Then a school bus of kids came and I knew I had to scram. Changed spot and crossed over to other side of a bridge. Nothing happening here even though the tide was moving out. Caught 2 flatties on the same worm and the worm was still intact! Bravo.. Just as I was packing up to leave, a ute drove past and some oscar zulu yankee-doodles ang moh slurred expletives at me which I can't make out what there was but something like: "Stop fishing here and throw back the fishes you piece of asian shit, u fucking cunt.. blah blah blah..." Don't know if I want to get stoned or laugh but I chose the latter.

Ronald

Tackle Talk

A bit of a boring day even though I have to deal with some visa stuffs and also handing in my thesis hardbound copy. Nothing much to do so decided to blog some tackle talks. Got hold of some pics published in the forum by our rod builder and decided to put it up. Some snaps of our finished product and pretty well taken, I reckon.

Hmm... still very in love with my custom built rod. Chen's Maziora coloured reel seat looks pretty chic and that's why it costs more! Got a new lure sometime back yet again from one of my favourite Japanese eBay seller. I'm always impressed by his packing method which made the US$4 postage charge really worth while. Anyway it's a Jackall TN50 lipless crankbait lure that I hope will have a chance to use for chasing bass.

Cost me about $17 AUD including postage which I felt it's pretty cheap compared to shops selling for like 25 a pop. Plus it's japanese packaging! Oh well, if I'm considered a lure-slut, check out with Rocky, he's like... woh hoh... current big-time lure spender! Hehe..

Ronald

Best Fight On Loomis

We were supposed to bring Brooker out for the painful 10 hour trial on the new Tohatsu motor that Chen just acquired. But due to unforseen circumstance such as me getting smashed on Saturday night due to a late night out with a Singaporean friend (Gerald), I had a pretty bad hangover the next morning. Oh well, guess we gotta find sometime during mid-week or over the weekends. Chen had sms'ed me later on in the morning whether to lure or not and I replied him saying let's go for it. Then, the both of us must have continued to pass out or something and ended up me waking up pretty late to almost the peak tide. I rang Chen but he must've been K.O. pretty badly, lol. So off I went on a solo mission to the Cooks. At first I had wanted to hit the Princes Highway spot (JM's 1st bream-on-lure spot) but there was a circus thing going on! Thus, there was no parking available and I had to make a decision to either head back or risk wasting travel time to another spot (felt like tournament decision eh, KNS!). Anyway, with me being a fishing-slut, it's do-and-die later kind of decision. Reached the "Chen's: I Love Cooks River man!" spot and the watch tells me I've only got 45 minutes there before having to rush back for work in Myer (I hate it). Rigged up the Gama jighead with the worm first to check out activities. The tide was fast racing out and luckily the 1/22 was jigging well. Worm got eaten by the bastard-toads and so tried on a new GULP I bought called the '2.5 inch Mullet' (it's the pumpkinseed grub but in saltwater version). Saw a school of mullets cruising by and got me excited. Then, as I was luring downstream, the mullets seemed to be creating some boils around the start point and off I went to check out what's going on. Cast the grub upstream and did minimal twitching to let the current work my grub. 2nd twitch and I was on with a huge run. The 2nd run had me in a curry and was the time to tightened some drag and hang on. Luckily it stopped and some rodworks and winding was done. This fish was a good fish, plenty of headshakes and stiff resistance had me thinking that it might be a jewie. Took me an almost 8.5 minutes to land this bugger which turns out to be my personal silver trevally of 46cm!

(Bloody hell, maxed out my ruler! 38cm to da fork, 46cm to da tip via tape measure) Yeehar, PB!

It was the best fight I've ever had on Loomis, not to mention it was probably the best on a flick stick. Why I would say that is that as long as a fish could make my arm sore (like kings on light gear), it's a good fight. A kind gentleman strolling with his family took this pic for me. He was there witnessing the tussle and commenting that I should probably get a net (was virtually impossible to lift that bugger up but I had no choice but to risk it). Once I released it, some folks in their backyards cheered and clapped (I returned favour of course, hehe..). Continued for awhile more with only a just legal flattie landed before I knew it was time to go or I'll never make it in time for Myer.

As I had passed out super early after the work at Myer, I sort of woke up early the next morning. Knowing that this week's high were all in the late morning period, I snuck out for a quickie yet again as I had to help my supervisor tutor a Thermodynamics course. Yeah, you heard it right, THERMO!!! So, with the winds still in the favour zone for yesterday's spot, I went back there again. Looking at the surface debris it didn't seemed like the current was racing and so I'd put on a 1/24 nitro instead. As usual, 1st up was the worm. Tried the trev spot and what do you know, 3rd cast in and the worm was 'creamed'. Zzzzz off it goes and what a fight it was again, though not even half as good but still heaps of fun. There was a whiskey oscar golf uncle walking past me earlier and when Stradic went chaotic, he stopped and turned around. When the fish was brought near my feet, he insisted I steer it to his side so that he could try and grab my leader and lift it up. I told him no, I'll land it myself, and he kept on telling me I'll lose the fish. I ignored him and sort of gave him 'that' look. Man, I know he wants to help but the way you see him was kinda fishy and I knew if I've obliged he might mishandle my leader or line and probably break my rod tip? Or even worse, said he wants to keep the fish?! Anyway, after that look, he probably knew and left disgusted. Who cares! I know I'm protecting my new rod for sure. Lifted the fish up and this breambo measured 33.5cm. Bad thing was it was foul hook on the eye socket (AGAIN!) but nothing serious as it had missed the eye ball. No wonder it fought good.. hehe..

And that was it. Tried downstream for few hits and there and worm got bitten. Changed to the used gulp mullet for same result. Then, the school of mullets came cruising along and made me moved back to the starting point. Cast and cast to no avail and changed to a Cultiva Mira Shad hardbody for the last 15 minutes there. A small silver biddy 'bang' the lure to devirginise this lure that Rocky got for me in Singapore. Packed it up and headed back.

Couple of shots that I compiled from a few previous dud sessions including two lures that got devirginised by the biddies. Been too lazy to blog often and ended up with compilations instead, lol.

Ronald

Oh What A Feeling!

Fourth in a row it was me yet again with my partner in crime Mr Chen visiting playground straight after work. Rucked up with chen outside of Myer's bus-stop and went back to grab our gear. It was already starting the outgoing and by the time we were there, the sky was dark. Rigged up the usual tool in crime and straight up on the first cast I had scored a hookup. Luckily the worm was intact and continued with 2 more smallies swung back up to the land. This worm had to be the lucky worm when it was the 'fat lady dance' kind of hookup we've always dream of achieving. Fought exactly like the previous "almost cannot make it" 38 model and there it was, a 36cm bream that made Stradics singing drag entertained us.

Thanks for the piccy bro. This time round the release was faster and the bugger didn't pose any problems. Chen landed a few and missed heaps, and always a hoot to hear Tierra's sudden short bursts. The bites went quiet and both of us had a fair share of wind knots yet again on the "really cannot make it" yamatoyo braid. Whilst both of us were sitting down on the ledge and chilling out talking heaps of shits, my Tango was loaded up and put up quite a respectable run. Heaps of headshakes had me thinking a flattie while Chen was contemplating a jew. He wanted me to say: "I Love Glebe man..." but I resisted and told him a NO NO, cos' it must be a jew before any angler can say that, lol.. (don't ask me why, message GTK and ask him why). Anyways, turns out it was a big whiting and Chen was like telling me that's a pb-breaker for sure. My fingers were crossed hoping that it was but tamade... 38cm!

Oh well, still, it was the best fun I've got compared to the previous big whitings I've caught. Knew that whitings has a history of being hard to release but this one luckily was ok. Few more last casts and our tummy made us gave up fishing and head for a nasi campur fix down at Randwick.. oh what a feeling!

Ronald

Finally A PB At Playground

Can't believe it, I'm actually blogging now when I'm about to leave for work at Myer?! Anyway, sort of got up early this morning for no apparent reason whatsoever but I know I'm gonna be really smashed at work since it's 8 hours straight! Finally I got my dear ol' civic back! Yeyyyyy!!!! Got it back from my usual Ipoh (malaysian) mechanic on Saturday morning and sort of scam him a little.. hehe.. Well, the story goes as in he charged me for the stupid body work before he could passed my car inspection for rego. Then he thought he had given me the pink slip but I told him not yet. So he went on to write me one and whilst he was busy talking to a customer, he passed me the papers and went on to bid me farewell! Ha, saved me 30 bucks! With the car back, I asked Chen if he wants to fish the outgoing tide during evening as I had to work at Myer that day and he agreed. Not entirely a good session but at least the both of us caught some fishes to cure our itch after not being able to fish frequently ever since civic was out of action. I compiled the pics in the flash file.

Had to work on Sunday for like 5 hours and had a fuctup day with politics in play. Saw my name in the break sheet for lunch and I thought, shweet! Went for like a 45mins break and came back to get screwed by an old chick who just happens to be a senior casual, WTF?! She says I wasn't supposed to go for lunch with only a 5 hours shift. But the real thing that pissed me off was because I told an old Malaysian man (casual as well) that I'm going for lunch and he asked if my name was in the sheet and I told him yes. He then got jealous when he found out my shift was only 5 hours, so he went to 'report' me to that old cunt and that's how I got screwed. KNNBCCB that old fuck has officially pissed me off. I thought out of respect I've always helped him in favours at work but now he has crossed my path that old fucker. Didn't really give a shit and anyways used that excuse to go for a fish down at playground again.. hehe.. Caught a smallie on the bloodworm wriggler and on the next cast, had a bust off! Plastic and jighead gone and the leader was chaffed, must have been a tailor. Scored smallies on the Tango after dark and that was about it.

It was my day off on Monday and there were heaps of stuffs I need to settle for that temporary visa I'm applying after my current one ends. Seeing that the wind was quite mild and the direction suited quite a few spots, I went on a last minute decision to Le Montage. Weird thing about that spot now is that even on a 1.5m high tide, the banks are getting flooded! Was only fishing there for like 30mins and later on the bank was covered in water. Was trying out my new Tango for few half-hearted hits and jigging Gulp grub for dismal results. Scored a flattie on a gulp worm though. Felt that I didn't really get my fix and so went to Glebe to have a look-see. Wind was ok and quickly casted a worm. First cast and I've already got ferocious hits but no hookup. The second cast changed my perception of this nearby playground. With sideway winds and a 1.09g modded head, it wasn't what I thought would be able to get fish on the drop. Well, it did just that. My usual pause before any retrieve was met with a funny tug and there it was, already hooked up. It made the 1st panic dash and I thought that's the usual deal with smaller ones. Then things got interesting when I could feel the resistance and that menacing slow but steady run of approx 3secs. 3 seconds might sound like a short time but for an angler chasing a particular specie that had a size which matters, it was considered a good fish. And there it goes, behaving exactly the same as the best flathead fight I've ever encounter recently at the same place. So I thought it might be another same flattie but as I managed to coax the bugger nearer, it was a bream, and a big one! Landing fish at this spot is a pain-in-the-ass, as there aren't any steps available and thus stunts had to be performed. No dramas whatsoever in lip-gripping and it was that "What a feeling" (Toyota commercial) that I haven't felt for a nong-nong time!

38cm of quite a chunk of bream. Things got interesting while trying to release this bugger. As a responsible (yeah right) catch-n-release angler, I wouldn't usually take too long to put it back but when you're self-timing the camera, it might sometimes take awhile. Still, all those previous breams never posed any dramas before. However, this bugger proved otherwise. Whilst finishing with the photo taking, it seemed pretty lifeless to me at first, but then I just went down the banks and put it gently into the water. No sign of tail action or fins slapping and it got me worried. But the gills were flapping and I thought just hang on there for awhile more before letting the fish go. It didn't and after about 5 minutes, I craddle the fish up and went to seek advice from another angler who was rigging up. He just told me to push the fish forward and backwards to try and revive and that's about it, and lamented that he wouldn't eat fish from here! Ha! Well, I told him I wouldn't either. Oh well, I did the thing he told me previously before and so just gave it a go again. Stucked there with the fish for another 5mins before it showed some signs of tail action and I gently let it go. It swam a little before floating up again and by now, it was quite far and I can't reach for it. Got me a little disheartened at first but I had confidence it will move off eventually and with another 2mins or so, it finally disappeared slowly into the depths. Phew! What a relieve! Anyways, continued for awhile more with a few more smallies caught and it didn't seemed to make the nearby angler too pleased. He did managed one before calling quits when out of the sudden, I didn't see him, probably pissed? Then, my expensive nitro head got snagged and whilst trying to free it and to no avail, I decided to break the leader. Stupid Yamatoyo line broke instead and I lost quite a lot of line! KNNBCCB!!! 3 words... DON'T BUY IT!

Compilations of various captures over the three days at playground:

Ronald

Chen Loves Cooks River

That's it, I'm officially pissed at all my fishing mates simply because in the name of jewfish-on-lures! Hahahahahaha... kidding. Yup, I'm the only one yet to accomplish this accolade. Anyway, while I was out on a donut trip with Rocky on Friday night, the tackle shop owner in Matraville called me to say that me and Chen's rods are ready for collection after a super duper long wait. As my car is still at the mechanic's place, we had to take a bus down to collect it, that's how desperate and bored we were! Took bus 309 which took forever to reach Redfern and headed over there. Went up to his rod-building studio and showed us our rods. Pretty pretty no run water lah! He also brought out his other blanks to let us abuse it and I was amazed at how his 1-3kg rods are like unbreakable! Then as usual talk a lot of shit and Chen bought some salmon lures and off we headed back to HQ to test the casting of our rods, yes, at a grass patch behind St Michaels! Hahahahahahaha....

Since it was Labour day holiday and both me and Chen were not working, I arranged with Rocky to hitch a ride on his car and we proceeded to a new spot in Cooks River. Since I've always lured in bays and flats, had never really tried those narrow river types. Rocky was 1st on the scoreboard when he got a small bream on his kmart pak rat lure.

Then, he proceeded to kamikaze his lure to a potential snag. So me blo went over to help him save the lure using the tackleback retriever. Luckily it came out and he practically continue using that hb throughout the day. He then went on a solo mission even luring on a foot bridge! Later came back and told us only managed another small bream caught on his own camera.

Me and Chen were left to do the stretch that we came about in the 1st place. I was using the new Tango with only a small burst and didn't hook up, bastard! The current was pretty strong as we weren't used to luring a river since our usual haunts don't really have fast moving water. Chen was having some success on the camo worm and so I thought I'll go for it as well. The tide was rising and so I opted a 1/22oz Gamakatsu jighead. Few hits and misses and some lost tails, it was making me frustrated. But soon, as I noticed after one of my twitch, the slack line was moving and then it came up tight. Zzzzz... off it goes and what a FEELING! I can tell you that having not caught fishes for such a long time, it was truly amazing! This bream was giving me some curry but the Loomis rod was performing beautifully. The bad thing about this spot is that there's no steps or any means to get down near the water edge to grab or lip grip the fish. Luckily it was not a huge bream and I simply tried to high-stick up the fish to see how the IMX performs! No problems!

Measured 30cm and had a little net damage but by far a healthy looking bream. Released it and felt really rejuvenated. Chen had another problem with the Yamatoyo line and had to sort it out again. Slowly but surely he would soon be on the scoreboard when out of the sudden I heard his Tierra singing and rushed over to check out the action. Straightaway his Loomis was fully loaded and I knew it was a good fish. Chen said that it was heavy and I quickly took out my camera and grab a video of the action.

Argh!!! The fish dropped! Chen was absolutely gutted. I told him that was a pb-breaker for sure. This spot was starting to show its true potential. Then, he suddenly realised how the fish had gotten away, because of a broken hook point!

A big bruiser bream which is so used to crushing oyster shells can simply make a short work out of a fine wire gauge squidgy hook! Oh well, that's fishing! Not long later, I managed to score a small bream on the worm again.

Then, the best action for the day. A same thing happened when I heard Tierra singing and turned around to see that Chen was onto something again. The drag was louder and faster on the initial burst and Chen was baffled, thinking it might be another good bream. As I quickly pulled out my camera for a vid, he called out for something NEW...

Baby jewfish! Bloody hell this jewie maxed out my ruler! Lol.. Used the tape measure and it went 44.5cm. Chen was so ecstatic that I was so proud of him scoring something which I haven't! Bugga! Hahaha... nonetheless, was more than happy to take a few happy snaps for him.

And now he has to behave like GTK saying: "I Love Cooks River man..." Damn it! Hahahahahahaha.... The fish as usual released and it took awhile for this jew to be revived, they sure are quite a weak fish! Not long later, Rocky scored a flattie and he basically skull dragged the poor bugger up!

After the tide was starting to move out, the bites were slowly disappearing. We persisted awhile more but the heat and exhaustion was too much. We wrapped up the session and went to maccas for lunch. Rocky wanted to buy some sx40 lures and so directed him to the tackle shop at Matraville. He bought 6 sx40s and 2 ck40f lures! He said it's for his pacu luring back in indonesia.. POWER! Rock drove us back while he secretly went to recce a new spot at Cooks again! Dedication mate!

Ronald