Don't normally fish past sunset but for a change of scenery I decided to spend a few hours down at Burns Beach after sundown. There was a fair few fellow fishers down as well, mostly crowding around near the groyne...I decided to head further up away from the tangle. Played around with a Rooster popper for a bit before the sun vanished but to no avail, so it was onto the trusty old mulie on my other rod. It was damn quiet without a nibble before I gave up and rerigged my new combo with a running star sinker and a set of 4/0 gangs. Twenty odd minutes would have passed before the line went taught and the rod buckled over. My first ever hookup on my new combo...wooooo! Turns out to be a tailor and for its size gave a good account for itself. I suppose it was a little flighty as it nearly iki jime'd itself with the gang hooks!

Stoked, I kept at it firing more mulies, rearming here and there due to the enevitable disintegration of the bait from the elements and pickers before I got another solid hit and line peeled off and I chased it up the beach (ok so i exaggerate...I moved over a few feet)After a good tussle, another, bigger model tailor is hoisted off the rocks. Looks like brekky has been sorted and its just gone 9.00 pm. Then, the best bit...though I regret I have no photgraphic evidence, I get another solid hit and after a short battle, a bees dick away from been legal mulla is attached at the other end. I am sure those further down the beach could have heard my exclamation of joy. He gets to live another day and grow bigger (we shall meet again!) and understandably am buzzing over the capture and do not care if the rest of the night goes pear shaped. Anywhoo after a quiet period of about an hour I get some tentative hits so i pull back only for something to get very angry and take off on the Ocean Express. This thing would not stop and the Abu Garcia Omega 4000 i have screamed in protest and the 8ft Eupro bends at a horrible angle...no amount of coaxing could get it to turn, whether gentle or brutal...easing off it would stop and sit there....more pressure only resulted in it getting fired up and taking off....one final attempt sees a few violent head shakes and it lets go...after having stripped nearly half the line from the reel. Could it have been a beastly mulla? I can only hope so... At least the new combo can handle a bit of punishment which was good to see. Big thanks to the young fella at the Fishing Shop for putting me onto it.

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