G'day fellahs,

Set off for coronation early Friday morning with my cousin Kirk.  Packed his beautiful Toyota ute with enough stuff to last us a month.

Got to the carpark, let down the tyres, and set off down the track.  Bloody motorbikes had been thrashing around and the track was horrible, but still made it through.  

We met up with my other 2 cousins, Phil and Paul, who are at coronation almost every weekend.  They had set up on the first point, so we joined them.

I was hoping to do some ballooning over the weekend, but there just wasn't the right wind, damn it.   The first night was perfect, hardly any wind and there were baitfish being smashed all over the place.  Threw some mulies around, only to get a couple of small tailor.   They weren't biting very well at all, and since the weather was so good i took the oportunity to try out some lures, roosta poppers, twistys, stickbaits, they werent hitting anything.

Decided to get out my big 14ft Gladiator and set out a big herring fillet.  After 10 minutes i hooked what i was certain was a huge ray, it took off like a steam train and got me into the reef, just couldnt stop it.

Nothing around the next morning except for a few herring, which were kept for bait.  That afternoon i had another herring fillet set out on the Gladiator, and just as i was about to reel it in it got smashed.  20 minutes later i had a 115cm 14kg mulloway on the beach after some nice gaff work by Paul.  After a few photos i released it, swam off really well. Nothing else that night except for a few more tailor.  

Sunday morning was good weather too, i got up really early and had a mulie out on a cheap $40 jarvis walker 12ft surf rod with 30lb braid.  Had the rod in the rod holder wih the drag off as i was drinking a warm milo in my Oztrail recliner.  Sudenly the reel started screaming and i jumped up that quickly i spilled my milo.  Grabbed the spool and set the hook, tightened up the drag and i was on to a good fish.  Pushed the jarvis walker combo to its limit as the fish ran me up and down the beach.  Everyone else was asleep so i yelled out and woke up Paul, who came running over with the gaff.  After an exhausting fight i was so surprised to have a 120cm Sambo on the beach.  He was released well.

The rest off the weekend was very lazy but managed my pb tailor of 66cm.  Doesn't look that big on the photo, but it was 66cm!

Anyway was a great weekend with some good fish caught,

Thanks for reading,

-red

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