Wayne, good on you for persisting. Its the best way to learn and the rewards follow.
Red card for complaining about an 80cm lizard! Top fish mate!!!!
Red card for complaining about an 80cm lizard! Top fish mate!!!!
Palm Beach 27/11
Well, what an experience today was!!!! My first ever surf launch and boy didn't I do it tough. I got dumped twice and then went to the beach for a rest and then Duran showed up and guided me through it. Tough stuff, by the time I got out the back my arms felt like jelly and the paddle felt like it had a bucket either end.
Slowly paddled out to Palm Reef and boy wasn't I hurting. That was when I saw Duran back peddaling and coming towards me. He said don't hang your legs in the water and pointed to a fin sticking out of the water. Great! My first encounter with a shark on the yak! We just paddled around it though and never saw it again.
I must have swallowed too much salt water or maybe it was seasickness but by the time I got out to the reef I was ready to blow. And blow I did, four times to be exact. No burley as I hadn't eaten anything yet, thank god with that shark around!!
Took me about 1/2 hr to feel well enough to rig up. No fish caught in this time by any of the 12-15 boats around us. Not sure how long it took but I finally got a hookup. Although I knew it wasn't a mackeral as the fight was very lacklustre, ended up being a big flathead, went 80cms equalling my PB, dammit. As good as that was I felt dissapointed when I saw it as I was hoping for a mackeral. Called it for a wobbegong to start with looked huge in the water.
Headed back in not long after. Got dumped on the way in also but out of the three dumpings I never lost anything so that's a bonus.
Slowly paddled out to Palm Reef and boy wasn't I hurting. That was when I saw Duran back peddaling and coming towards me. He said don't hang your legs in the water and pointed to a fin sticking out of the water. Great! My first encounter with a shark on the yak! We just paddled around it though and never saw it again.
I must have swallowed too much salt water or maybe it was seasickness but by the time I got out to the reef I was ready to blow. And blow I did, four times to be exact. No burley as I hadn't eaten anything yet, thank god with that shark around!!
Took me about 1/2 hr to feel well enough to rig up. No fish caught in this time by any of the 12-15 boats around us. Not sure how long it took but I finally got a hookup. Although I knew it wasn't a mackeral as the fight was very lacklustre, ended up being a big flathead, went 80cms equalling my PB, dammit. As good as that was I felt dissapointed when I saw it as I was hoping for a mackeral. Called it for a wobbegong to start with looked huge in the water.
Headed back in not long after. Got dumped on the way in also but out of the three dumpings I never lost anything so that's a bonus.
