Out On The Water With Dad.

[spinner]

hey raiders havent been on in a while but my dad (groper) has been putting up posts on our trips, but today its my turn

It was a sunny morning and we were both tired from the previous day, but ready to go fishing. We left the house at about 7:30 and almost immediately ran into traffic and bad luck on the road like just getting hit by red lights, or going to the petrol station and some guy with a massive boat and a truck traps you in there for about half an hour..

after about an hour and a half on the road in attempt to reach our destination, Wally's wharf, we finally got there only to see a huge boat there with a crane on it loading crates off a truck onto itself and after another 40 minutes (talking to a random about fishing all that time, was quite enjoyable ) we asked if that was his final load, the answer we received was "i have another truck to unload and i have to put some crates on a third one" and with that we went to the boat ramp at water street and with a bit of difficult we were FINALLY on the water.

We went straight out past the heads and dropped the lines out and wouldn't you know it.. my dad started bringing in flathead after flathead after flathead, a few legal but most undersized while im just sitting there with the rod in my hand pulling 2 baby flathead at a time waiting for my luck to change..

We then headed to a reef where it was pretty much the same story.."drop your lines down...IM ON!!" and im still sitting there...the rod in my hand..checking the bait every five minutes or so..changing it while my dad brings in some reef fish, losing some and then after a while, i get on to a large fish, but knowing my luck it came off i thought to myself "ok, if something doesn't happen soon ill start begging my dad for fish but just as i was thinking that i get another large fish on, nowhere near as big as the first but still a considerably good size and it fought pretty well, i ended up pulling in a sergeant baker about 52cm long, maybe things were starting to turn my way after the first catch i started bringing up some reef fish aswell as my dad, letting some go and keeping the slightly larger ones. My dad put out a line with a light sinker and it was eventually hit and he pulled up a fairly big port jackson, about 1.2m long he opened the spool and let the shark run for about ten seconds before handing the rod to me "here have some fun" he said, with a grin on my face i brought up the port jackson and we had a proper look at it..too bad we forgot the camera in the car... the day continued on pretty much the same way.. bringing in reef fish etc,and we headed home early to get some rest.

We ended up with 8 Flathead, some reef fish and threw back so many undersized snapper but ended up with a 38cm snapper.

despite the fact that i started catching fish fairly late in the day, i still enjoyed the day greatly as fishing is about relaxing and not actually catching the fish )for me anyway, but just pointing out that catching fish does sometimes help you relax ) im looking forward to many...many more trips with groper

At home my dad starts the BBQ going and cooked two flat heads, 2 nanaguys and three yellow tail, wait for it, the bbq yellowtail is for Husky misha, she has to get some too you know.

here she is saying hello with her paw.

Edited October 8, 2010 by spinner7

[Day's Fishin]

Not a bad finish after a poor start. Serb's are great dogs, I had one but unfortunately I had to get rid of him as he was impossible to keep on my property ,take your eyes off him and he was gone.

Regards Jeff

[brickman]

well done spinner7 looks like a good feed or 2 there that dog looks like a wolf with posesed eyes lol

cheers gary

[bream reeper]

Nice feed there champ,well done...

[hamerz84]

great feed mate nothing beats a day on the water with your old man.

how was the weather out there ?

cheers hamerz.

[mrsswordfisherman]

Hey that is a really well written report spinner7 tell Dad to let you do the reporting from now on!!

Love the pic of your dog and I bet the feast of fish tasted real good too. Me and Swordy ALWAYS end up talking to randoms about fishing when we go out too

Great to be out with Dad fishing I am sure.

Cheers mrsswordie

[Basil D]

Hey that is a really well written report spinner7 tell Dad to let you do the reporting from now on!!

Love the pic of your dog and I bet the feast of fish tasted real good too. Me and Swordy ALWAYS end up talking to randoms about fishing when we go out too

Great to be out with Dad fishing I am sure.

Cheers mrsswordie

hey. not fair.

By the way our dog misha has realy grown hasnt she, here is the first pic her 18 months ago

Edited October 7, 2010 by Groper

[tesber]

well done. nice pics. that bbq shot is making me hungry. I will have to go fishing this weekend!

Cheers.

[tide'n'knots]

I with donna basil!!! i really enoyed reading your young blokes report. good on you spinner keep em coming.

pete.

[Basil D]

I with donna basil!!! i really enoyed reading your young blokes report. good on you spinner keep em coming.

pete.

its unanimous then, looks like Im heading out fishing tomorrow with my brother in law this time, Christo misses out, OH I will have to write up the report

[bangus]

hey raiders havent been on in a while but my dad (groper) has been putting up posts on our trips, but today its my turn

It was a sunny morning and we were both tired from the previous day, but ready to go fishing. We left the house at about 7:30 and almost immediately ran into traffic and bad luck on the road like just getting hit by red lights, or going to the petrol station and some guy with a massive boat and a truck traps you in there for about half an hour..

after about an hour and a half on the road in attempt to reach our destination, Wally's wharf, we finally got there only to see a huge boat there with a crane on it loading crates off a truck onto itself and after another 40 minutes (talking to a random about fishing all that time, was quite enjoyable ) we asked if that was his final load, the answer we received was "i have another truck to unload and i have to put some crates on a third one" and with that we went to the boat ramp at water street and with a bit of difficult we were FINALLY on the water.

We went straight out past the heads and dropped the lines out and wouldn't you know it.. my dad started bringing in flathead after flathead after flathead, a few legal but most undersized while im just sitting there with the rod in my hand pulling 2 baby flathead at a time waiting for my luck to change..

We then headed to a reef where it was pretty much the same story.."drop your lines down...IM ON!!" and im still sitting there...the rod in my hand..checking the bait every five minutes or so..changing it while my dad brings in some reef fish, losing some and then after a while, i get on to a large fish, but knowing my luck it came off i thought to myself "ok, if something doesn't happen soon ill start begging my dad for fish but just as i was thinking that i get another large fish on, nowhere near as big as the first but still a considerably good size and it fought pretty well, i ended up pulling in a sergeant baker about 52cm long, maybe things were starting to turn my way after the first catch i started bringing up some reef fish aswell as my dad, letting some go and keeping the slightly larger ones. My dad put out a line with a light sinker and it was eventually hit and he pulled up a fairly big port jackson, about 1.2m long he opened the spool and let the shark run for about ten seconds before handing the rod to me "here have some fun" he said, with a grin on my face i brought up the port jackson and we had a proper look at it..too bad we forgot the camera in the car... the day continued on pretty much the same way.. bringing in reef fish etc,and we headed home early to get some rest.

We ended up with 8 Flathead, some reef fish and threw back so many undersized snapper but ended up with a 38cm snapper.

despite the fact that i started catching fish fairly late in the day, i still enjoyed the day greatly as fishing is about relaxing and not actually catching the fish )for me anyway, but just pointing out that catching fish does sometimes help you relax ) im looking forward to many...many more trips with groper

At home my dad starts the BBQ going and cooked two flat heads, 2 nanaguys and three yellow tail, wait for it, the bbq yellowtail is for Husky misha, she has to get some too you know.

here she is saying hello with her paw.

well done that bbq fish making me hungry