its been 6 days since the pirates got back from our annual may camping fishing trip and as none of the other boys have reported i thought ide better share a bit of trip with the rest of the fishwrecked readers.

it might not be in order of events but ya get that after at least a million brain cells have been burnt from my memory bank in just a 12 day trip.glug glug
in all there was 4 boats involve and 9 drunken fisherman
first day its anearly start for jack and his 3 crew Ab Rod and heath.they leave tomporice at 3 in the morning as theyve got the biggest boat and its a 5 hour trip to onslow.myself pete frizza and spurrie get away at 4 and on the last bend into onslow we catch up with jack .
we all meet at the boat ramp and load the boats with all the gear.and of we go .hours later we are all at CANT TELL YA bay unloading all the stuff .the weather is tops.needless to say all of us are half cut already.and buy the time we all go to bed three blocks of cans are gone
the first morning we hit the water all three boats are in sight of each other cruising aroun looking for some ground to bait fish .its not long before the call on the radio is BLUE DOTS in the boat.cool the first good fish is landed.after that its a fish fest with blue bone. chinamen cod, sharks and what we are all after coral trout being landed
that night is much the same as the first .and pretty much every night pans out the same .i think i can actually remember going to bed 2 nights out of 11 .
next day its time to find somwhere new.an hour or so on the plane and the sounder stars to light up with good ground .we do a bit of trolling a bit of bottom bouncing and all 3 boats land good fish .
myself and my deckie spurrie are starting to get into a good routine spurrie catches all the fish i let him know he sucks as thats the same fish i just dropped im sure.
well spurrie with out dout was best on ground for fish . i saw it with my own eyes this bloke was a fish magnet.for the trip he had bought out 2 overhead combos one to troll with the other baits .the bait combo was a tica gemmini.on a solid rod loaded with 50 lb braid .the thing had barely been used.buy the end of the trip it well was farrrrrkkked.he got that many unstopable fish that we didnt even see im surprised the rig held together .for example buy day four the anti reveres was gone .when casting 50 persent of the time the spool would lock and thered be a hook and a sinker sailing around ya ears. on one occasion less than a minute after toseing a 5 foot shark one side filleted of for bait over the side .spurrie does the usual flick and bang the whole lot goes over with spurrie nano seconds behind.im pretty sure that the rig is gone ,nup spurrie pops up and like JC is back in the back holding his trusty combo.i sweaer to ya theres not a shits chance in hell i would of gone in as we had already been sharked about 3 times in five minutes ,bloodied the crap out of the surounding area .another fish was a 15.6kg china man this fish made the man piss blood for a good ten minutes absolutly bruitilizing spurrie ,only doing short runs but hell power..we were fishing in real dirty soupy water of about 5 metres deep .and when we could finaly get colour i picked it for a monster coral trout.it took me 3 attempts to gaff the fish as it was coated in scales that were like thick finger nails BULLET PROOF a few photos and the fish was released .buy this stage of the trip i called the other boats telling them what we had landed .and the return call was "let me guess spurrie caught it "."bloody spurrie who invited you".he was loving it burnt drag thumb an all.

[img_assist|fid=180346|thumb=0|alt=my deckie spurrie|caption=spurrie was bye far best on ground for the trip .hauling in over sized everything]

day 5 saw jack and his crew head home .leaving 4 of us out there to continue enjoying our selves .a freind of ours Dan, back in TP had called saying he might come over for the weekend .cool .jack and the lads caught up with him at the onslow boat ramp with a list of suplies to pick up for us and a mud map on how to find us .he made it night with more grog a pie an sausage roll each .next day we had a shore based fish flicking lures of a rock ledge with frizza landing a nice 54 cm mangrove jack and the rest of us pulling trevaly evewry second cast of about 50 cm.next day dan was gone
somwhere in all this spurrie and i had found some new ground which looked real good.i let frizza and pete know i was gonna give it a crack .faarrrkk was it real good.5 drops later myself and spurrie had landed 2 trout 2 spangled emperor and i had dropped a horse at the boat ,we just stood there laughing at each other as the boat got tossed around in some hell chop created buy 10 knots of run and a bit of wind
it was getting a bit uncomfortable so out went the lures to troll home.bang double hook up on trevaly not huge but fun a couple more double hook ups and we decied to head home only problem was winding in the lures without hooking up as the trevs were schooling around tthe back of the boat .wind real slow i said as to hopfully not get a hit WRONG another double hook up but this time it was no average trev

[img_assist|fid=180350|thumb=0|alt=trevonski|caption=this fish was the first bigger trev for the trip and how we found "hurtsville" shoal]
back at camp spurrie an myself told the other lads about what would later be knicknamed hurtville shoal as the last few days concisted of a bottom bounce then hit hurts ville for the arvo troll and basicaly get hurt .buy trevs a tuna or two some good size queenies,oversized barracuda, mackies like sharkies doggies spanish with the odd coral trout,all sorts of cod just to keep it interesting we left behind a lot of lures a lot of busted owner swivels hooks an split rings to unstopable trevonskis that i would estermate be up there with any trev WORLD WIDE,and next year im gonna pin one of these beasts get a pic and give a good old war cry then send him home

geeze it looks a bit rough
[img_assist|fid=182733|thumb=0|alt=petes tuna]

mister fish magnet

[img_assist|fid=182738|thumb=0|alt=spanishspurrie]

this one was about 4 foot long
[img_assist|fid=182744|thumb=0|alt=jaws]

not the best way to handle a big cod but he did swimm away strongly

[img_assist|fid=182747|thumb=0|alt=twin brothers]

[img_assist|fid=182762|thumb=0|alt=nice queenie]

[img_assist|fid=182753|thumb=0|alt=another trout]

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so ya:s get the idea .it was bye far my best camping trip with a few PB,s added to my personal list and a few more PB,s added to my boats list and could ramble on and on about what we caught and what our days and nights consisted of .hopefully frizza will get online with a few more quality pics and a bit of bullshit to go with it.
thanks to everyone that came out and made the trip great .only another 11 months and ill get to wake up looking out at the sunrise from my tent

[img_assist|fid=182759|thumb=0|alt=sunrise]

friz has got some great pics and footage that hopfully youll all get to see soon.and im betting hes gonna be right up there for photo of the month with some great fish and alltime back drops

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if any of you want to know where this adventure was
it

was

CANT TELL YA BAY and thats all i can tell ya