Will's old fishing mobile was sidelined for some TLC, so Will, Kym and I crammed into the Patrol early on Friday morning and headed south-east.
We hit the beach a few hours before high tide and motored on through some soft and very low parts of the beach. High tide would easily wash over the tracks so it was important to get through quickly and without trouble.
We set up camp up towards tea tree crossing, in a little cut out in the dune, opposite some nice looking water.
Will was on the board with his first cast catching a nice salmon. He followed up with another and also an undersized mully. I had another soapy myself, and Kym was amongst the action too. The wind was icy at first, but either it warmed up a bit, or we just got used to it, as it seemed more comfortable as the sun went low.
With the wind and seaweed being kind to us, the situation begged for a bit of night fishing. Having not fished the beach for so long, we dug around looking for glow sticks and led lights. Old glow sticks had lost their glow, and Will was stuck with one of the flashy led's which are more annoying than helpful. Here's a link to Ultimate fishing's solid green led lights. They're an Aussie seller and shipped out to me quickly.
Whilst we eventually got well setup with lights, chairs, and beers.... the fish didn't come to play, and for me, the night was cut short when I had about 100 metres of line get tangled up into a ball. Too cold to bother tieing new rigs, I decided to retire to the fire, and the others thought that was a pretty good idea too.
Breakfast was cooked on the fire, due to me forgetting to bring any cooking instruments. The seaweed mostly held off so a full day fishing was enjoyed, with a few more salmon landed here and there throughout the day.
We managed to get in a bit of golfing practice in the worlds biggest bunker too. Above is Kym styling some nice golfing attire whilst practicing chipping (no one managed to get a ball into the bucket).
A massive whale rib bone had washed up on the beach. What a seriously impressive animal this would have been. You could have stood up in it's belly with room to spare.
The weather report was showing big winds picking up overnight, so we decided to pack up the shelter and be ready for an early departure to get off the beach at low tide.
Instead, we woke up to some great weather, and I snapped this picture - before 5 minutes later the clouds darkened overhead and got rained on pretty hard. It's been many months since a gashes outing, but things continued as normal - Will easily catching more fish than Kym and I and getting another engraving on the trophy.
