Went down south over the weekend, first two nights at wellington dam, next night down to molloy island (augusta) to stay with some friends, then Jane and I camped last night on the blackwood near balingup cause the wrights bridge campground was shut.

Was crap with the snare on the first night for a bit, but once I worked it out, I got 3 undersize marron which of course went back.   Molloy Island was nice, we fished about 100 mts to the left of the ferry and got smoked by some black bream and I learnt that the drag on my Okuma Hardstone 30 is stuffed.  I caught a fishing rod and reel and brought it up rigged and all from the snags. Me and 3 mates all lost a few rigs each, you would get a big hit, then run for a few seconds and get busted off.  The next day we went to the no fishing area near the ferry and dropped some pellets in and saw why we lost so many rigs, Some of the bream were 50cm easily.

Last night on the banks of the blackwood, while waiting to check our marron baits, Jane wanted to fish the pool in front of us but we had no bait.  I said try some of the cheese or salami we were eating. Evidently Margaret River Cheddar works in the Blackwood river too as it accounted for this trout in a cast or two.  In fact, I was on my way to the car to get some soft plastics to try, and Jane had landed the fish before I got to the car.

So fishing for me wasnt so great, but on the way back today we stopped at mandurah for a Miami Bakehouse Pie and a swim at the beach just down the road.  When we went down to the beach the whitebait were massed up on the shore and there was a school of herring smashing into them.  So I borrowed Janes rod and put on a bait chaser rig and got a herring.  Another bloke came down and was using a blob and green lumo tube on a hook and was cleaning up.  So I put the bait chaser rig onto a blob and sent it out.  First hookup massive school of herring chasing in and a triple hookup blew the rig off.  Despite Janes best effort to chase the blob with her fins and snorkel set, it was gone.  So I put on a halco twisty 10 gram in gold and got a few more herring before they went off the bite.

So at least I caught something edible! The weekend was great, and tubing at big rock wellington dam with the blokes from the campsite next to uswas a highlight in the heat of the second day. Lots of new ground seen and cant wait to get back down south again.