OK Picked up Martin (you know that dutch bum that at the age of 29 thinks he deserves a year of) at 7 am this morning from Janalli train station and headed for the St George's motor boat club to launch.

Just past the bridge saw some irregularities at the bottom and with some other boats fishing there we decided this was the place to catch fish.
We set out the berley trail with chook pellets and bread mixed with tuna oil and we caught plenty (snapper upto 15 cm bream upto 22).

See here Martins first Oz caught fish!!!!!

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we moved to the other side of the bay after a while berley'd some more and caught plenty more but added a puffer fish to the tally (again all under size)

Than we decided to move shallower and between the weed beds and managed to catch some whiting as well. They ended up as lunch (well actually a pre lunch snack)


Martins First Oz self caught meal.

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The weather was good, rain passed over and fell elsewhere.

Jack

Haji thanks for checking up on us to make sure we were ok Next time I'll have to give you a ring before we anchor up and chuck berley in so you can give us your magic spots.

good stuff guys! Glad to see he got some fish on th first outing, now just gotta improve on it..

it can only get better from here and thats for sure will u be writhing this one up in your blog martin, jack that a darn good report thanks mate and martin welcome to OZ.

Martin, do you have a facebook site or anythnig your logging your trip on for ya mates bak home?

Just a few Q's 1st off the bat Jack ????

Did you wear sunglass's & a hat when you picked upthe Bunyip Man so as no one would recognise you ????

Is that lamb that the Bunyip Man is eating ?????????????????????????????

Q's out of the way

Martin !

Welcome to Oz mate,

The land down under where Jumpus takes the piss out of everyone

Sydney would prob be one of your possibly worst fishing destinations & think you'll have a few good stories to tell after you've travelled a bit.

But you did manage some fish with Jack & that's a good start

Onya guys

Yes but the hat had VIVA written all over it so He still picked me out of the line up


BTW Jumpy did you get a good address for moulds, Martin may want to have this monster moulded.

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Jack

Address can be gotten Jack but the moulds are quite expensive that 1 meter flathead worked out around $600

I'll ask him what he wants to do with , he went to great lengths getting this back to my place w/o fisheries finding out.
He put it underneath the built in floor of my boat.

Jack

good on bunyip man



onya jack at least your out there trying... how big where the whiting

Good report Jack, and at least he caught fish.

The mould of that fish would look like this:
Set up cost $500
Mould of 4" fish $60

OMG marting does look like a Bunyip.
Looking forward to meeting him next weekend.

haha you pack of bastards.. having a go at me while I'm in the train with no internet.. tsss ;)

Well as you can gather we had a pretty good day today. Even just being out on the water and motoring around at high speed was good fun, it's been too long since I've been out for a day like that. Weather was ok, especially since it seems to have rained quite a bit downtown from the looks of things while we were out in the bay.

Jack really looked after me yesterday and today, took me shopping for gear, fed me and took me fishing so a big thanks to him and his family!

Fishing.. well for me any fish is good fish since it's my first day out and I really enjoyed it. The cool thing was that almost every cast would result in bites almost straight away. Prob because there were a million little fish around. Jack hooked into some small snapper straight away but I had a bigger hook on so the first thing to take it was the bream in the pic.. after a while I decided to downgrade as well so as at least to get into some fish and straight away I got our first whiting and a whole bunch of undersize stuff after that which was all great fun. I was happy we got the whiting so we at least had a small feed for lunch.. nothing quite like fresh fish which you've just caught yourself!!

All in all I had a really great day, thoroughly enjoyed my first fishing experience oz style thanks to Jack!

Not me Martin !

I'm a Good Jumpus GooDarus

Firstly well done on your fishing.

As you have requested we will try and take the iss out of you as much as possible.

That is ok. No need to thank us,

Just to ensure that this was not the right way round but the RIGHT way round

Mate the water is brown up there in so many ways. Just watch out for the chocolate floaters.




Ohhhhhhhhh Bunyips got a boyfriend.
Nah Good on ya Jack for showin the mexican the ropes ^_^