Went to North Narra to meet up with Alex Bellissimo at 2.20 for a whiting and beach worming session and to try and get a feed. We arrived 5 mins late, turned up, and saw Alex's van. We got out, had a look, which then at which point I said Where's Alex? A bloke nearby said, "Don't worry he's just gone worming. He'll be back soon."
Linda asked him if he was a fisherman. He said yes, you may have heard of me I'm Gary Brown. We all nearly dropped dead. He gave us a free copy of his book which he signed for us and then we set off. Gary stayed with us. Alex took us to spot X on Nth Narra where we picked up a couple of worms in tough conditions. 20 in total in 2 and a bit hours.
Very hard!
We then moved down a few street's and began to fish. Tough work, an 1 1/2 hour no result. Tried another spot for nothing as well. 3 hours gone. Finally we moved beaches to Long Reef. Come up on the beach and loads of weed. Dropped a line and in the first ten minutes a whiting hooks up. Landed, legal, 31cm.
Fished for another half an hour, suns going done and the fish are biting. The bloke next to us got a decent salmon and so we put another heavier line out for no result.
Then I start pulling it in and 1 metre off the beach a little spotted dart takes the worms. Dad also picks one up. Gary had several bites put pulled up only weed. Dad casts again and WHAMMO and a 1 1/2 pound tarwhine pulls up.
Gary then pulled up another Tarwhine which was a bit smaller. Worms AGAIN! As the sun finally set Linda's line starts hissing off. Alex called weed, I called weed. Alex then called fish. After a 5 minute fight, a 50 cm (approx) ray comes out.
All in all a fantastic finish!
Have fun everyone and see you at the social!
Henners