Wow …..You've gotta love Fridays - Specially with a good tide & a new outfit to try out!!!
Armed with a new Egrell S1 teamed with a Daiwa Advantage 2000 , I headed off for what was to be an interesting Friday afternoon / evening on the Brissy river.
Firstly my trip down the river was slowed when the police pulled me up while some US navy ship approached the Gateway bridge ....... boy talking about paranoid .... "sir can you please hug the port bank & proceed slowly till you are well past the ship"
My plan was to hit the water & fish the run out tide with a run and gun approach - all lures but with only a small window before needed to pick up Gaz to join me , I decided to drop the anchor and fish a productive jewie spot to give my new egrell S1 / Advantage 2000 combo a go . As it turned out ...... I didn't need long before I got my first hit but failed to hook up - not long after I pull the hooks on a 80cm plus jewie while dicking around with the video before finally landing my first legal qld jewie ..A satisfying capture.jpg... 83cm on 6lb braid - what a hell of a fight & a hell of a way to break in the new outfit - I reckon everyone on the brissy river would have heard my yahoo .
Unfortunately this was about the time I need to up stumps & pick Gaz up ..... but that was OK ..... my sparrows had flown ….... - Gaz calls to let me know he is 15mins away so It was time to up anchor - when he asks about the fishing I lead him on & act all coy ----- he has no idea till I pick him up and ask him to throw a can in the live well ( come garbage bin) ....... the look on his face was worth bottling & so we celebrated with a well earned a beer. ( this is our first legal jewie in the brissy river)
Rather than going back to where I had fished .... we decided to fish another location that had shown some previous promise & managed a few tailor on vibes........ including Gaz's double on one lure.
Oh and then the unbelievable ….. Gaz & another mate fished this spot a couple of weeks back
& Nick popped off a really smokin fish ( line just broke) - well Gaz retrieves the lure during his retreive …... yep that the one!!!! - couldnt see why the line failed but there was a good 10M of braid there.
At this point of time - let me tell you about Gaz ...... aside from a really good bloke , he is a very focused angler who will put in the hard yards to achieve his fishing goal - be it jack , barra or jew - he is FOCUSED!!!! but right now it is a legal Jew and he / we have fished many hours to get those legals - but gaz goes that extra yard ( fishes night & day – boat based and even landbased at some ungodly hour. Well ... tonight he hit paydirt and landed his firstGaz's first legal jew.jpg and secondGaz and his 91cm PB.jpg legals (85cm & 91cm) ...... we both kept a fish for the table & released the 91cm jewie. Gaz got his on his own technique ...... so out of respect for the guy - no infos available ….. he can tell if he wishes .
Anyhow the night didn't end there - we lost the anchor first & then had a flat battery ( 2 sounders / GPS & live well will do that to you) ..... had to leccy it back to the ramp before getting a tow for the last km …... very lucky that it was near the bottom of the tide
Anyhoos ....... Gaz you are a champ & it was great to see those 2 fish hit the deck after your efforts this and last winter.
Tonight it is Jewfish cooked in Champagne / fresh cream with Mango ….... my favorite way to eat jewies
I reckon it is starting to come together buddy
Chris