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