Lake Macquarie 18/19/20th june

[goob]

Hey everyone, just got back from fishing an ABT bream tourny at lake macquarie. headed up early friday morn and arranged to meet up with Mick Baker to have a fish on the lake as i hadn't fished there since i was a teenager. it was a top day on the water (especially since thursday was awful down here) and we fished the channel at swansea. almost on our first drift we had what we think were salmon busting up everywhere, so we threw everything in the tacklebox at them with no luck, so we anchored up and put some baits out the back. didn't take long and a nice little bream came aboard. we moved around a bit and had a bit of a look around, Mick is a top fisho and was more than happy to show me around and give any pointers he could, which were many. i had a great day and would like to thank Mick for his help.
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and Mick in action
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saturday came around and the tourny started, i fished the first day with a top bloke named ross in his 20ft I-class skeeter, on the way to our first spot for the day we had a top speed of 79 mph, jaysus it was a quick boat , we fished in 8ft of water all day in the south arm of the lake with plastics, he used lobby's and i mainly used berkley "jigger craws" that i got in from the states. we were into fish straight away and he had his bag of 5 in about 45 minutes, i could only pull 3 from the back of the boat but one was a cracker at 1.29kg taken on 2lb line
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i was sitting in 7th place after day one with a weight of 1.97kg and was feeling confident going into day two, especially since my day 2 boater said we wouls fish the same bay again in his 17ft triton, but on our way to the bay his outboard died and we had to pull the pin and head back to the start line under electric motor and didn't fish at all
all up though it was a great weekend away, thanks to mick baker for friday, i had a great day and we'll have to hit those fletty's in summer mate.

cheers clint