Breaking & Breaking-in new fishing gear!

Isn't fishing a funny thing, some days you just have to say 'hay that's fishing', No excuse's just No fish! But at least up this way we always have the tides to blame, and then there's the wind, 'Broome fish hate the wind' we say.

We had a friend who came two neap tides in a row to fish the 'good' tide's with us, he did catch fish thankfully, but the wind both times make it very hard work.  Another friend has been out a few times and still not caught anything; ok so we were too drunk the first couple of times to even fish, but we did yesterday, and still didn't catch anything, next time mate!! (we did see the biggest barra in the world!)  I'm starting to wonder if guests are a jinx??  It's a little bit of a worry, because we have another friend coming out for his second trip tomorrow, fingers crossed we can catch him some fish!!  The tides are GREAT, fingers crossed the wind holds steady for a the morning at least!

On the in-between day, when we had no visitors, we (Johnno) cleaned up!!

The Barra that broke the Birthday rod!

We fished the low tide as usual this morning, better tides meant we were expecting Barra, Sunday meant we were expecting plenty of people about; we got both!!

There was 10 land based fisho's and a tinny trolling.  The young lad next to us caught a cute little barra, but apart from Johnno that was all I saw...must be time to break out my fly gear!!!  Oh talking about BREAKING!!!  Johnno's first barra pictured above, 64cm, caused the breaking of his new birthday 8wt fly rod!!  Luckily he received the rod a month before his birthday, getting a  fair bit of use on it over the last month: Last months Blog: Johnno's New Fly Rod.  Johnno managed to keep fishing, even with his broken tip fly rod, oh what you do when the fish are biting!  Catching and releasing another barra before the tidal movement caused us to move on.

After Barra for lunch and a few hours of relaxing, we noticed the Boobies Bombing right in front of our camp, so off we ran to see what all the action was about.  Johnno broke-in his new spinning reel with 2 pilchards, 2 wolf herring and a salmon!!

Sunset Salmon to finish another wonderful day!

 Go Johnno!  I had grabbed my bigger set up in the excitement of the feeding frenzy, so even though I caught fish this evening my new reel is still a virgin. :(

Barred Creek: WA sunsets are amazing!!