It's been a while and been nagging Zap to hit the pole so we headed down for the weekend. Left Bunbury Friday morning and returned Monday arvo. No rush.

Was up at first light after a relaxing friday afternoon drinking a few beers and setting up the gear and talking tactics.

Full battle stations and engine running (and thats Zap arming the Humminbird side imaging with new down imaging sounder, no photos as we aren't giving all our secrets away )

And yep what beatuiful glassy conditions. Decided to hit the headlands around Walpole inlet and the first casts resulted in fish......for the next hour or so.

The fish were just crawling all over our lures. Have been given a digital camera so I was eager to shoot some shots to see how she works. Here's some shots.

This is a Maria Fake Bait floating twitch/stickbait. And what a lure it is. Was smacking the bream as we threw them into the rocky headlands and twictched em back just under the surface. Hooked up after a few cranks of the Sol.

Atomic Hardz and this would have to be my favourite colour. Whether it be in the Blackwood or here it just smacks the fish. Fished best again over the rocky headlands in shallow. Another great visual lure and you can see the fish hit it.

Have thrown Ecogear SX heaps and never pulled a fish so tied this one on and said if it doesn't catch a fish then pox to ecogear as they are supposed to be solid lures.......well a fish a cast so happy with the lures. This is the 249 and it throws some flash, and fished best over the gravel/black mud sandy shallow ground.

Went for a quick session up the Frankland and as good as Zap was on the lecci he couldn't keep up on the fish front yep hooked up again (scorpion yabbie colour) and Zap giving me the dirties...ha ha

So after a killer morning session with easliy 80 fish between us it was stumps for lunch. We decided to hit Deep creek in the arvo and enjoy the day. Some pics to show you the sights.

Saw the biggest bream here and it was great just watching him swim around under the tea tree. Threw a lure in but he just smiled and swam away.

Clear blue sky

Saturday finished with easy 100 fish between us. Went back to the mouth of the Frankland for a quick look at the turn of the tide and there was a school of about 100 big skippy and yeh we caught a couple.  Beer o'clock and was beatuiful day on the water.

Sunday was once again glass in the morning. Hit the headlands again and smashed the bream on lures. Zap tied on a Zipbait while I tied on Trout Tune. This is another floating twitchbait and twitch it did and bream threw themselves at it.

This lure worked all day and is now my favourite lure. Yep its expensive and small but nothing like dropping it in front of bream and watching then come out to look and then slam it. Just can't beat the visual action.....

Zap was killing them on the lures as well and once again many fish landed. But happy hour at 7.30am was calling as the bourbon and dry were cold........ha ha

Nothing like breaming with bourbon and dry......

 Decided to hit Snake Island and once again it was bream central.  We we casting into the shallow rocky flats again and just a quick crank and instant hookup!  

However the fish shut down so we tied some SP plastics on and hit the 2-3m line. We were slamming bream on slam 3" SP.

These were all good 28cm fish.

Then moved to the mouth but only herring and a few small pinkies on plastics.

The mouth gets absolutely hammered......

So lunch again and for our final afternoon it was the upper Frankland. I had landed a 34.5cm bream in the lower but the bigger fish were aluding us so we ventured further upstream. We pulled up just downstream of the Nornalup bridge and decided to move up the bank under lecci power casting into the banks. First casts and we were both smashing the bream.......You could see schools of them hanging on the wood.......Was a visual spectacular.

Then the bridge pylons loomed within casting distance. There was just masses of baitfish hanging under the bridge! In went my old faithfull Luckycraft 48DD gold, cast hard up against the pylons...crank, smack and a nice 29cm bream landed. The next five casts landed five 28-29-30cm bream. Zap watched in bewilderment  but by the time he cottoned on the fish shut down

Anyways I suggested he tie on a slam SP and drop it deep......and his first cast resulted in him getting bricked......ha ha as I can still see his face...pure pain and tears welling as it was the fish of the trip.....ha ha, got to be quick old man...ha ha. But he landed a few

We caught a few more up river but the light was fading.............

So all up we would have easily landed over 200 fish. Importantly we fished areas no others appeared to fish but we changed lures very regularly and moved when they subsequently shut down. But at the end of the day we just enjoyed ourselves.......if you catch a fish its a bonus.

And yeh Barneyboy if you have read this far there's one more thing. Here's a picture of my ugly mut showing you I'm enjoying myself just to piss you off.