Fishing with Runty

[51MPL]

Had an epic past few days, reminiscent of what I had to put up whilst doing shift work. Long nights, minimum 10hour shifts and then staying up during the next day to wet a line.

Exam - Saturday morning 8.30am. Me - study from 10am Friday throughout the day and night until exam time. Finish around 10.30 and I'm home shortly after, browsing around facebook when I notice runty's online. Quick chat with him to see why he's not already on the water and he's convinced me to come out for a flick.

Keep in mind:

I've been up for just over 25 hours

Still need to go home change cars, go pick him up - goto ramp, launch etc etc so it'll be a while before we are even fishing

I despise weekend fishing - sorry Mon-Fri workers

Car/ramp/on-water traffic is so bad generally that even if I'm free I don't wanna fish

It's the middle of the day :sick: I'm always up at sparrows and fish into the morning/whenever the fish stop biting then head home.

Basically it's everything I stand against but I threw caution at the wind and decided to head out!

By the time I swap cars it's around 12:15 and I have dinner at 6.30pm with the mrs and other friends too

So! Pickup the runtling - get some fuel - get some refreshments - and we're off and running.

Soon as we get near the spot birds are bombing and our hopes are high - none of my gear is rigged yet and Runty is firing off casts. We see a mac tuna chasing his hardbody but it turns away after a short distance and the birds disperse so onto the original plan - bream, flatties, tailor, trevs etc etc

We pick up fish slowly throughout the day - here are a few:

Squire

- There's a 3" Fish Arrow Flash J Shad down there somewhere - hungry fella swallowed the whole thing, the jighead just had enough space otherwise my 3lb wouldn't have lasted.

P21 doin the damage - sadly didn't throw the hardbodies too much, the plastics just worked too damn well. Boy I miss how hard these fellas hit hardbodies!

- lil pinky that fell victim to the J-shad

Runty was into the action fast getting a few small tailor while i got busted off fishing plastics. Bream were hanging with the tailor schools which I'm not sure is common or not?

Ended the day with this trevor. Strangest fight ever - the fish were responding well to a certain retrive (read dead slow hops off the bottom with a heavier jighead 1/8th in my case)

Felt him nibbling on the plastic so let him have it, finally sucks it down and starts to swim away so I strike but it feels like a catfish or something. Slowly swimming towards me with a LOT of weight but not running. Slowly I pull him up and when he spots the boat takes the one and only run - zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. After this he just swims/circles the boat for a few minutes as I make more and more line. A few tense moments were had before he hits the net and we are both surprised to see it.

Anyhoo we launched just after 1 and it's 4.30 by this time so we head back to the ramp. We see a shitload of birds bombing on the way back in but it's a damn washing machine - doesn't stop runty having a few casts but only landing micro-tailor so call it quits and head back.

Back at the ramp and only just late for dinner so i'm still in the good books

Dinner then hangout with friends and I crash around 10pm - 36hours no sleep and with work in the morning i wasn't feeling great but it was well worth it.

Thanks for the day out runty, thankyou for Rob(Zim_man) and Stu for providing me with the fish magnets - sorry runty but these things even outfished gulp shrimp! Can't wait to give them a bash in a longer sesh and see how many fish i can get out of each plastic. Had my first one upto 5 fish and it was fairly chewed up but was still fishable.

Thankyou for reading this too, i hope you made it to the bottom without it being too boring.

[ryanyoung]

At least you got onto a few fellas. I bombed out yesterday, coming home with a donut . I need to hear drag again lol!

Ryan.

[sunnydays]

Exams! :sick: The jacarandas will be out soon!

Nice session fellas!

[Runty66]

haha not to sure about flash j's out fishing gulps ahahah

they do work a charm tho i must say, cant beat good old gulp shrimps when fishing is tough

[Scope]

Well done guys, you did a lot better than us yesterday!

[51MPL]

Thanks fellas

Challenge accepted Runty! Arrows v shrimp

[The Mad Hughesy]

Nice session guys, I didn't manage to wet a line at all on the weekend

[shortie]

I read the title and thought wow what an awesome bait