Hillocks Drive - May 2007

I took a week off work in May 2007, and as it was my birthday, thought what better way to spend a birthday than fishing and camping. A trip was soon organised an a fairly big group of us headed down to Hillocks Drive.

Greeted by relatively calm water, we headed down to one of our usual spots off the rocks at the end of Salmon beach. The fishing off the rocks was one of the better sessions we’ve ever had down there, with double headers of tommies, mullet and sweep all being landed. Most of the sweep were a bit small and thrown back, but the tommies were kept for a later cook up.

I think Sani might have had a small claim to Gashes leader at one point here, but her hopes were dashed as the decision was made to head down to the beach to try and get into the some larger Salmon.

Before too long, a few salmon were being landed on the beach, with yours truly shooting to the top of the leaderboard. Nothing huge, but still decent sized fish that would go well on the BBQ.



Andre cannot wait to cook.



A nice mixed bag of fish caught from the rocks and beach on day 1.
We made the trek back to camp and got the fire going, and the usual camp fire drunken banter of how to solve the worlds problems etc begun.

I was feeling good about having the most fish going in to day 2, but Will wasn’t to be out done.

He landed around 8 salmon on day 2, to put him self out into the lead. Everyone else struggling to get a bite.

A big feast was cooked on the fire that night…



Will had to leave early on the last morning, which gave the rest of us a chance to catch some fish and take out the prize. Unfortunately, the fish weren’t coming to the party and appeared to have gone home them selves.

A good trip in terms of fish caught. I think we caught more fish than going to far west coast a few months earlier – and travelled about 1800kms less too!