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Whiting 29.9cm (wifey)
Whiting 29.8cm (me - she wins again 🤨)

Whiting 29.9cm (wifey)
Whiting 29.8cm (me - she wins again 🤨)

Tailor 36cm (George)
Tailor 40cm (me)
Bullshark 80cm (George) 

Tailor 36cm (George)
Tailor 40cm (me)
Bullshark 80cm (George) 

Tailor 36cm (George)
Tailor 40cm (me)
Bullshark 80cm (George) 

Tailor 36cm (George)
Tailor 40cm (me)
Bullshark 80cm (George) 

Tailor 36cm (George)
Tailor 40cm (me)
Bullshark 80cm (George) 

Tailor 36cm (George)
Tailor 40cm (me)
Bullshark 80cm (George) 

Stop showing off you privileged bugger … 🤪🤣

Stop showing off you privileged bugger … 🤪🤣

Can you believe it, the weather is mint offshore, it is the weekend, the almanac is good, and I have decided to give it a miss?  I could not justify going out and catching more fish when I already have a full freezer.  I must be sick or something. 

We got quite a few really good  70 cm plus tailor up at Fraser last September ,  the best year for big fish I’ve ever had up there , best fish was a 76  cracker ,  looking forward to using that stick later this year to crack an 80 . 

I’ve been  wanting to make a custom spin  rod for  Tailor  fishing up at Fraser Island for a while now . About a week ago I got on Facebook and  purchased  an old  trashy looking 13 ft butterworth surf rod, (the number on the blank appears to be ss 51569 )for the princely sum of  $50 -hoping I  could do something with the blank.
First up , I stripped it all back and shorted the blank down  till it felt real good at 11 foot 8 inches. I wanted the rod to be powerful ,but as light as possible , so got on line and ordered a set of Alps  aluminium oxide High Rise  Guides , a Fuji reel seat , some shrink wrap grips,  and a butt cap from a local supplier . I had a bit of thread and epoxy in the garage which I used for the project . It took me two nights to bind it all up and epoxy it . My wife even made me up a little decal sticker  for it.
This morning the epoxy had all gone off rock solid  , so I put a Shimano  6000 Saragosa  with 20 lb braid on it and loaded it up to give it a test.Jezzz …  It feels like a weapon and cannt wait to fire out some 65 and 85 g Raiders later this year. I’ve used a lot of high modulus rods but I recon those old school surf rods are hard to beat when surf fishing , they cop a flogging out there on the beach and a lot still being used 20 to 30 years later . Super glad I gave this old girl of a rod a second lease of life.
Neil

splashing around in the mud this afternoon landed this little fella. 30cm flatty. sent back to grow. that mud stanks bad, one of the kids also got a monster 18cm whiting but i cant post it for some reason. 
surprisingly the rain stayed away, all day.

Well we were in a co op and guy said grab the crayfish you want so I reached in with my bare hands and caught the feisty live cray before it could crawl to the other side of the tank.

As the famous redhead Pauline would say: ‘please explain’ …. 🤪

As the famous redhead Pauline would say: ‘please explain’ …. 🤪

The boys and I tried for squid at Green too on Wed morning for no luck (despite Spero making it look easy the day before … 🙄🤪). Had wind against tide so we’ll use that excuse …. 🤔.
Shame about the overall lack of success Hamish but always good to fish somewhere different. Taking a rod to Victoria?

The boys and I tried for squid at Green too on Wed morning for no luck (despite Spero making it look easy the day before … 🙄🤪). Had wind against tide so we’ll use that excuse …. 🤔.
Shame about the overall lack of success Hamish but always good to fish somewhere different. Taking a rod to Victoria?

The boys and I tried for squid at Green too on Wed morning for no luck (despite Spero making it look easy the day before … 🙄🤪). Had wind against tide so we’ll use that excuse …. 🤔.
Shame about the overall lack of success Hamish but always good to fish somewhere different. Taking a rod to Victoria?

Next time you fish the harbour fish unweighted livies along the north eastern part of the marina....you will not get a bite on lures or anchored baits there   but unweighted livies work. Threadies and cod there usually.
Alternatively work the Rita DeMata headland if you can still get access to it. Threadies and barra.
I fished Corio Bay and the headlands there the most....some good fish on the headlands there....very hard to land though. The reefs go out a hundred metres from the waters edge in some spots. GT's spanish macks and barra there. Occasional cobia and coral trout have come ashore there.