Went out in the fitzroy on Saturday to try and get a few salmon with a couple of mates that are wanting to get into fishing, new it would be hard with the amount of fresh around but expected to get some sort of result. Did a fair few miles and never had much success. Had one missed hit which felt like a salmon but with my luck lately was probably a catfish, had a decent salmon smack a lure almost off the surface, pull drag and just never hooked up and jumped a barra off that would have been at a guess 800, was a solid thick set fish. Even chucked a few pots out for a feed of crabs and only managed 7 undersized muddies.
Just as we were about to head back to the ramp seen a bloke chucking a softie around with a surf rod off the bank. He must have just about had the lure out of the water at his feet when he must of thought he was getting taken by a croc, eruption of white water and there was a cracker of a barra on a short leash. This fish got some serious air and was a solid fish, think it was just shy of the meter but definitely made me go home with my tail between my legs.
Can only go up from here I hope, but haven't doughnuted like that for a while. Hope others had a bit more of a successful weekend.