Neil Stratford

Ray , Mark and I braved some very inordinate conditions at NPD  this morning . With 25 knots of South Easterly wind accompanied with squally showers strongly  apparent, the possibly of donuting was high on all our minds as we pushed our way down the dam.The previous ritual of a serving of chocolate donuts each was employed as per my previous trip with Ray , and again the donut was adverted. It was giant fork tailed catfish after fork tailed catfish with the odd bass thrown in just to keep us interested for the first few hours Something special was required to break us out of this ground hog day trip. I opened my lunch box , and low and behold my darling wife had packed us a bag of Jam Drops . These little treats proved to make the day turn from ok to extra special event. Believe it or not we then proceeded to pull 14 really nice yellowbelly  plus a few more bass off one snag in a few short minutes . It was carnage till a big squall came through and we called it for the morning.

Just for you Kat , and at the risk of creating  a huge rush on them at Woolies tomorrow, here’s what the Jam Drops look like.

Ray , Mark and I braved some very inordinate conditions at NPD  this morning . With 25 knots of South Easterly wind accompanied with squally showers strongly  apparent, the possibly of donuting was high on all our minds as we pushed our way down the dam.The previous ritual of a serving of chocolate donuts each was employed as per my previous trip with Ray , and again the donut was adverted. It was giant fork tailed catfish after fork tailed catfish with the odd bass thrown in just to keep us interested for the first few hours Something special was required to break us out of this ground hog day trip. I opened my lunch box , and low and behold my darling wife had packed us a bag of Jam Drops . These little treats proved to make the day turn from ok to extra special event. Believe it or not we then proceeded to pull 14 really nice yellowbelly  plus a few more bass off one snag in a few short minutes . It was carnage till a big squall came through and we called it for the morning.

Ray , Mark and I braved some very inordinate conditions at NPD  this morning . With 25 knots of South Easterly wind accompanied with squally showers strongly  apparent, the possibly of donuting was high on all our minds as we pushed our way down the dam.The previous ritual of a serving of chocolate donuts each was employed as per my previous trip with Ray , and again the donut was adverted. It was giant fork tailed catfish after fork tailed catfish with the odd bass thrown in just to keep us interested for the first few hours Something special was required to break us out of this ground hog day trip. I opened my lunch box , and low and behold my darling wife had packed us a bag of Jam Drops . These little treats proved to make the day turn from ok to extra special event. Believe it or not we then proceeded to pull 14 really nice yellowbelly  plus a few more bass off one snag in a few short minutes . It was carnage till a big squall came through and we called it for the morning.

Just for you Kat , and at the risk of creating  a huge rush on them at Woolies tomorrow, here’s what the Jam Drops look like.

Ray , Mark and I braved some very inordinate conditions at NPD  this morning . With 25 knots of South Easterly wind accompanied with squally showers strongly  apparent, the possibly of donuting was high on all our minds as we pushed our way down the dam.The previous ritual of a serving of chocolate donuts each was employed as per my previous trip with Ray , and again the donut was adverted. It was giant fork tailed catfish after fork tailed catfish with the odd bass thrown in just to keep us interested for the first few hours Something special was required to break us out of this ground hog day trip. I opened my lunch box , and low and behold my darling wife had packed us a bag of Jam Drops . These little treats proved to make the day turn from ok to extra special event. Believe it or not we then proceeded to pull 14 really nice yellowbelly  plus a few more bass off one snag in a few short minutes . It was carnage till a big squall came through and we called it for the morning.

Good to see you smashing them again.
regards
neil

Good to see you smashing them again.
regards
neil

Very nice boat , I have a friend that’s had the smaller one for a few years now. They are quite light in weight for their size , what are you towing it with? 
Ps. - No excuses not to catch a few fish now. ! 
Regards
Neil
 

Good to see you smashing them again.
regards
neil

The big tides create significantly more run when their flooding and ebbing , this often makes fish expended a  whole lot more energy to feed. Big tides also often make the water a lot more turbid in estuary’s. I personally dislike fishing the estuary’s during the big tides.In saying this the fish have still got to eat , so the tide changes  and eddies often create the  best opportunity for meet and greets with our fishy friends. I find the week before  and after the full and new moons good ,particularly if there’s a SE wind blowing , this always seems to get fish biting well where I fish .As for the neap tides , they’re ok depending what your targeting , and where. The run in the tide stirs up the bottom and banks of creeks and rivers this is often feeding time for fish if it’s not too strong, no run no fun is something worth considering , but if there’s too much run I”ll always look for eddies out of the main stream run.
Neil
 
 

Very nice boat , I have a friend that’s had the smaller one for a few years now. They are quite light in weight for their size , what are you towing it with? 
Ps. - No excuses not to catch a few fish now. ! 
Regards
Neil
 

The big tides create significantly more run when their flooding and ebbing , this often makes fish expended a  whole lot more energy to feed. Big tides also often make the water a lot more turbid in estuary’s. I personally dislike fishing the estuary’s during the big tides.In saying this the fish have still got to eat , so the tide changes  and eddies often create the  best opportunity for meet and greets with our fishy friends. I find the week before  and after the full and new moons good ,particularly if there’s a SE wind blowing , this always seems to get fish biting well where I fish .As for the neap tides , they’re ok depending what your targeting , and where. The run in the tide stirs up the bottom and banks of creeks and rivers this is often feeding time for fish if it’s not too strong, no run no fun is something worth considering , but if there’s too much run I”ll always look for eddies out of the main stream run.
Neil
 
 

The big tides create significantly more run when their flooding and ebbing , this often makes fish expended a  whole lot more energy to feed. Big tides also often make the water a lot more turbid in estuary’s. I personally dislike fishing the estuary’s during the big tides.In saying this the fish have still got to eat , so the tide changes  and eddies often create the  best opportunity for meet and greets with our fishy friends. I find the week before  and after the full and new moons good ,particularly if there’s a SE wind blowing , this always seems to get fish biting well where I fish .As for the neap tides , they’re ok depending what your targeting , and where. The run in the tide stirs up the bottom and banks of creeks and rivers this is often feeding time for fish if it’s not too strong, no run no fun is something worth considering , but if there’s too much run I”ll always look for eddies out of the main stream run.
Neil
 
 

Very nice boat , I have a friend that’s had the smaller one for a few years now. They are quite light in weight for their size , what are you towing it with? 
Ps. - No excuses not to catch a few fish now. ! 
Regards
Neil
 

The big tides create significantly more run when their flooding and ebbing , this often makes fish expended a  whole lot more energy to feed. Big tides also often make the water a lot more turbid in estuary’s. I personally dislike fishing the estuary’s during the big tides.In saying this the fish have still got to eat , so the tide changes  and eddies often create the  best opportunity for meet and greets with our fishy friends. I find the week before  and after the full and new moons good ,particularly if there’s a SE wind blowing , this always seems to get fish biting well where I fish .As for the neap tides , they’re ok depending what your targeting , and where. The run in the tide stirs up the bottom and banks of creeks and rivers this is often feeding time for fish if it’s not too strong, no run no fun is something worth considering , but if there’s too much run I”ll always look for eddies out of the main stream run.
Neil
 
 

The big tides create significantly more run when their flooding and ebbing , this often makes fish expended a  whole lot more energy to feed. Big tides also often make the water a lot more turbid in estuary’s. I personally dislike fishing the estuary’s during the big tides.In saying this the fish have still got to eat , so the tide changes  and eddies often create the  best opportunity for meet and greets with our fishy friends. I find the week before  and after the full and new moons good ,particularly if there’s a SE wind blowing , this always seems to get fish biting well where I fish .As for the neap tides , they’re ok depending what your targeting , and where. The run in the tide stirs up the bottom and banks of creeks and rivers this is often feeding time for fish if it’s not too strong, no run no fun is something worth considering , but if there’s too much run I”ll always look for eddies out of the main stream run.
Neil
 
 

Hi Daryl , long time no see. Gee Eva’s grown up , she no long little Evi .
Say hello to both the kids . 
 
Looks like there’s been no spearo’s along the wall for a while.
Nice fish.
Regards 
Neil

Very nice boat , I have a friend that’s had the smaller one for a few years now. They are quite light in weight for their size , what are you towing it with? 
Ps. - No excuses not to catch a few fish now. ! 
Regards
Neil
 

The big tides create significantly more run when their flooding and ebbing , this often makes fish expended a  whole lot more energy to feed. Big tides also often make the water a lot more turbid in estuary’s. I personally dislike fishing the estuary’s during the big tides.In saying this the fish have still got to eat , so the tide changes  and eddies often create the  best opportunity for meet and greets with our fishy friends. I find the week before  and after the full and new moons good ,particularly if there’s a SE wind blowing , this always seems to get fish biting well where I fish .As for the neap tides , they’re ok depending what your targeting , and where. The run in the tide stirs up the bottom and banks of creeks and rivers this is often feeding time for fish if it’s not too strong, no run no fun is something worth considering , but if there’s too much run I”ll always look for eddies out of the main stream run.
Neil
 
 

Hi Daryl , long time no see. Gee Eva’s grown up , she no long little Evi .
Say hello to both the kids . 
 
Looks like there’s been no spearo’s along the wall for a while.
Nice fish.
Regards 
Neil

Hi Daryl , long time no see. Gee Eva’s grown up , she no long little Evi .
Say hello to both the kids . 
 
Looks like there’s been no spearo’s along the wall for a while.
Nice fish.
Regards 
Neil

I got an invite from Ray K  and Rick to do a bass trip to Hinze dam this morning.
Ray and Rick have been on skid row of recent times, finding it difficult  to boat any bass at all. Clocking up a few dreaded donut trips in succession - times were  grim for the  2 bass kings.
Desperate times called for desperate measures , so I decided to turn their worlds upside down and shouted chocolate donuts for breakfast before even contemplating dropping a line in the water . We all took our donut medicine and moved on to break the drought.
It was a three step process to get the little blighters biting again.
1. We took our donut medicine at 5.30am , and all agreed to move on from the recent dark times.
2. Rick was assigned the job of  clearing the dam of eels , catfish and  the barred grunter (vermin)  , he did this very well and didn’t  complain too much , he just got on with it and achieved an excellent result.
3 . We then proceeded the catch Bass till the bait ran out .
Success was achieved and the bass boys can now move on and get back to scoring a whole heap more fish.

I got an invite from Ray K  and Rick to do a bass trip to Hinze dam this morning.
Ray and Rick have been on skid row of recent times, finding it difficult  to boat any bass at all. Clocking up a few dreaded donut trips in succession - times were  grim for the  2 bass kings.
Desperate times called for desperate measures , so I decided to turn their worlds upside down and shouted chocolate donuts for breakfast before even contemplating dropping a line in the water . We all took our donut medicine and moved on to break the drought.
It was a three step process to get the little blighters biting again.
1. We took our donut medicine at 5.30am , and all agreed to move on from the recent dark times.
2. Rick was assigned the job of  clearing the dam of eels , catfish and  the barred grunter (vermin)  , he did this very well and didn’t  complain too much , he just got on with it and achieved an excellent result.
3 . We then proceeded the catch Bass till the bait ran out .
Success was achieved and the bass boys can now move on and get back to scoring a whole heap more fish.

I got an invite from Ray K  and Rick to do a bass trip to Hinze dam this morning.
Ray and Rick have been on skid row of recent times, finding it difficult  to boat any bass at all. Clocking up a few dreaded donut trips in succession - times were  grim for the  2 bass kings.
Desperate times called for desperate measures , so I decided to turn their worlds upside down and shouted chocolate donuts for breakfast before even contemplating dropping a line in the water . We all took our donut medicine and moved on to break the drought.
It was a three step process to get the little blighters biting again.
1. We took our donut medicine at 5.30am , and all agreed to move on from the recent dark times.
2. Rick was assigned the job of  clearing the dam of eels , catfish and  the barred grunter (vermin)  , he did this very well and didn’t  complain too much , he just got on with it and achieved an excellent result.
3 . We then proceeded the catch Bass till the bait ran out .
Success was achieved and the bass boys can now move on and get back to scoring a whole heap more fish.