James rang around 2:00 pm to let me know he had finished work and was ready to go, so I loaded up and set off to pick him up and head out for round 1.
A good trip out saw us launching at the barrage and heading for the mouth of Sampan by 05:30.
Arriving at the mouth we saw the sea wasn't too choppy and so headed straight out and across to Tommycut where we were planning to fish for the weekend.
On arrival at Tommycut, decided to troll in, so connected a Deep River Slim and cast out. It didn't seem to take long before I was on and after a short fight had a nice 83cm Tommycut barra in the boat, what a great start to the weekend.
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| 83 cm |
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| evening troll Tommycut |
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| evening troll Tommycut |
After a few more trolls with no results we headed upstream to set up camp for the night.
Saturday morning saw us up after a quiet night and following bacon and eggs brekkie we were trolling the mouth by 07:15.
The Deep River did its thing again and I was on to a good fish just after 07:30, this one gave a good account of itself but after about 10 minutes James netted a great 96cm barra to open my account for the competition.
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| 96 cm |
It looked like it was going to be a good great weekend.
Continued trolling the mouth for a while with no success and there didn't seem to be many others catching fish either, so decided to head upstream and try some spots that had held fish the previous week.
Fished for most of the day upstream for no results and finally headed back to the mouth for a final couple of trolls before calling it quits. Finally, just before 7:00 pm James hooked up and landed a 58cm barra.
As we set up camp that night things weren't looking all that good, but we had noticed that most were doing it hard during the day,
Sunday morning dawned and we were back trolling the mouth. There seemed to a lot more action this morning with quite a few fish being caught all around us, unfortunately we could not seem to get any joy.
After about an hour of frustrating trolling, we decided to start moving upstream, Dean Blackman told us he had been getting a few just up from the mouth, so I tied on a Deep River Mugil and took a run past the spot to hook up and land a nice 62cm barra.
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| 62 cm |
It seemed as though the fish were coming on the bite and so instead of crowding Deans spot, I decided to head back upstream to see if they had come on there as well.
Not long after starting upstream, I hooked and landed a good 73cm barra.
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| 73 cm |
We had found a patch of fish at last and over the next hour James landed three barra, 55, 61, 58 from the same spot before it went quiet again.
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| 55 cm |
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| 61 cm |
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| 58 cm |
I was starting to think I had passed my mojo to James and when my next hit was a mudcrab caught on the troll with a big B52 I guess I was right.
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| Unlucky muddy
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Once again it had gone quiet and so we continued trolling upstream trying to find more fish. After about an hour, James had another hookup, and it seemed to be a good fish going by the fight it gave him, it didn't jump at all but took a few deep circuits of the boat before finally allowing me to net it, a really nice 83 cm barra to give James his first five fish tally for the TEBS comp.
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| 83 cm |
Returned to trolling for about another hour, as we had decided to head home around 12:30, without getting any more hits.
The seas out the front were once again only slightly choppy and so we made good time with the crossing and back to Shady for a quick retrieve and uneventful trip home.
Scores have been posted for round one, resulting in 605 points for 12th place for me and 485 points and 26th place for James.
A great weekend and satisfactory start to TEBS 2014, Round 2 is just around the corner, fishing the top of the Adelaide River, so until next time, tight lines all.
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