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Very interesting day. WX cloudy and the threat of rain. Of course the WX people said it was going to be a fine afternoon. HA! :x
Anyway, I was supposed to meet Fisher and Scupper at a place called Perry's Bend. So when I got there a bit early I thought I would go ahead and set things up. Well along comes a fellow from Fish Watch and we got to talking, luckly I asked him if this is Perry"s Bend - He say NO that is about a kilometer furhter up the river.
Oh my, the day is starting off good :?: He kindly drove down and alerted Fisher & Scupper that I was at the wrong spot.
As they had not launced yet Scupper drove back and said they would wait for me to paddle down to them. I think I will change the name of my yak from the Ancient Orange to the Orange Barge. Hard yakka trying to cover that kilometer as fast as I could. Grant Kennedy I'm Not.
So could I manage to do anything else wrong - Yep! you guessed it. My 40 year old rod fell apart and the butt and the reel went into the deep. So we had to spend some time in retrieving that
While Fisher tried to push me in the right direction Scupper managed to follow the line and pull up my rod butt. Bloody good start so far. But, there is a happy ending, for me anyway.
So we paddled up river and in the course of the day Scupper picked up two bream. I figured I was going to be skunked - again! Fisher let me know via PM that he picked up one small salmon trout after I headed off on my 1K paddle back to my car.
Figured I might as well drag the SX along behind me - AND, lo and behold I actually caught a FISH - one bream 31mm - tried to photograph it; however, like everything else on this day, bar the fish, my camera batteries were DEAD.
Sorry Scot, I had to bring my first fish home - and a very nice dinner it made too. I'll C&R the next one :wink:
Anyway, I was supposed to meet Fisher and Scupper at a place called Perry's Bend. So when I got there a bit early I thought I would go ahead and set things up. Well along comes a fellow from Fish Watch and we got to talking, luckly I asked him if this is Perry"s Bend - He say NO that is about a kilometer furhter up the river.
As they had not launced yet Scupper drove back and said they would wait for me to paddle down to them. I think I will change the name of my yak from the Ancient Orange to the Orange Barge. Hard yakka trying to cover that kilometer as fast as I could. Grant Kennedy I'm Not.
So could I manage to do anything else wrong - Yep! you guessed it. My 40 year old rod fell apart and the butt and the reel went into the deep. So we had to spend some time in retrieving that
So we paddled up river and in the course of the day Scupper picked up two bream. I figured I was going to be skunked - again! Fisher let me know via PM that he picked up one small salmon trout after I headed off on my 1K paddle back to my car.
Figured I might as well drag the SX along behind me - AND, lo and behold I actually caught a FISH - one bream 31mm - tried to photograph it; however, like everything else on this day, bar the fish, my camera batteries were DEAD.
Sorry Scot, I had to bring my first fish home - and a very nice dinner it made too. I'll C&R the next one :wink: