Brad rocked up at my house this afternoon coz he had the day off work and asked if I'd like to go fishing... as usual, it didn't take much to convince me.
Neither of us really had an idea of where to go but we were both desperate to fish some new ground. Brad suggested we head out to the burrup for a fish, I'd never been out there before so it was agreed.
A quick stop at the shop to buy a couple of lures and then we were off. It was a pleasant drive out there, saw a few roos around. It didn't take long to find a spot that was suitable. We parked the car and after a short walk we found a spot where we wanted to fish.


Walking to the spot
It started off a bit quiet but as soon as the sun came out (it was quite overcast when we first arrived) I got a nice hit from a bunch of rampaging queenies. Next cast and I hooked up right at the base of the rock I was standing on, after a short little tug of war I pulled in the first fish of the trip... a nice little queenie caught on a 30g gold twisty.

Brad was persisting with plastics whilst I was fishing with metals. It wasn't long before he got some good hits then he hooked up to another little queenie.


Brad dropped another fish then it went quiet so we decided to move around the corner. I had about 10 queenies shoulder each other out of the way to nail my little twsity, I hooked up, dropped it, and hooked up again. Landed another queenie.

Me hooked up to another queenie
Brad hooked up to a little G right at the base of the rock he was on, he got buried within a couple of seconds and busted off. After he re rigged he decided to try an RMG.
It didn't take long before he was onto a nice little cod which buried him but he managed to extract it.

Brad commented on his badly conditioned 60lb leader that had been chaffed during the battle with the cod, next cast and he hooked a monster.
I knew straight away that Brad had hooked a good GT. It made him piss on the 30lb barra gear and we both weren't very confident, especially due to the leader.
The fish took him all the way around the corner and Brad did well not to lose it although I think alot of good luck also came into it.

Brad hooked up to the big G
Brad got it close to the rocks and I got in the water to land the fish, a nice GT around 10-12kg and an awesome effort on 30lb baitcast gear.

Nice one mate!
Brad persisted more with the RMG and also hooked a nice little barracuda but the hooks pulled right near the rocks.
It was a bit quiet on the metals so we switched to the squidgy Brad had success with earlier. Little GT's crawled all over them and it didn't take long before they destroyed a packet of SP's.


Eventually the little G's went off the bite so I switched to a little popper. I got a few hits from some small GT's but failed to hook up. Soon after, it got smashed by a GT that I reckon would have given 20kg a nudge but it didn't hook up. Probably a good thing as I don't think I would have had a chance in hell of landing it.
We put in a little bit more time for a few small hits then decided to call it a day. A nice sunset topped off a great arvo. Thanks for the day Brad, we'll have to do some more exploring around the area on big tides when you get the boat - especially with the heavy gear.