TEBS 2014
Round 1 Prefish, Shady Camp
Headed out to Shady on the 25 Feb with mate Phil White to do an overnight prefish for round 1.
Picked Phil up at 5:00 am and after an uneventful trip arrived at Shady Barrage around 7:30.
Managed to launch without too many hassles and were on our way to the mouth by 8:00.
There were about 8 boats trolling Sampan, and after 1 run and not seeing any fish caught decided to make the run across to Tommycut.
On arriving at Tommycut we joined the 4 boats trolling the channel. This worked out for us and after a few runs we had caught a couple of legal barra and a few salmon.
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| 65 cm |
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| 70 cm |
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| 78cm |
Highlight of the day was watching Lee land a 119cm barra.
We then decided to head upstream and try trolling a few of the bends and creeks.
Checked out a few likely spots with a couple of good hits which failed to stay connected until Phil hooked and landed a nice 92 cm to finish the days fishing.
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| 92 cm |
Met up with Ross and Lee with the intention of rafting up overnight, but the swell running up the creek made it too difficult so decided to split up, probably just as well because after a feed and a few rums I was more than ready to hit the hammock.
Up with the sun after a good nights sleep, the breeze kept the mozzies at bay and no rain overnight.
Headed back to mouth, but it was pretty choppy out there so we decided to resume our tactics from the previous day.
Once again this seemed to work in our favour with Phil landing a 105 by 7:30.
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| Phil's 105cm |
We continued this for the next 5 hours or so with Phil and I seemingly taking it in turns to hook up.
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| 90 cm |
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| 90 cm |
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| 62 cm |
We had planned to be home by around 6:00 pm, so just after 12:00 we decided to pack up and head for Sampan. After a quick stop to catch up with Ross, Lee and Dean we headed out of the mouth of Tommycut.
Going straight out of Tommycut was pretty choppy with plenty of spray coming on board, but once we turned right along the coast it wasn't so bad although we had to keep the speed down until turning into Sampan mouth for the run back to the barrage at top speed.
As usual getting the boat back on the trailer at Shady was a pain, but we managed in a reasonable time. After packing up we had a few nibblys, (salami, chilli cheese, chilli pickled onions etc) before heading home.
Tally for the two days was five barra for me and six for Phil, all legal size from 57cm to 105cm, dropped a couple of good fish each and landed a couple of Salmon, even throwing the tread on one of the trailer tyres on the way home couldn't spoil the way we felt.
What would the coming week have in store for me, will the fish still be around ?
Will try to keep blog updated over the whole competition, so until next time, tight lines all.
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