leave nothing but footprints,take nothing but memories and maybe a few fillets and a muddie or two

you are not going anywhere near coral bay in may.

and i would like to know how many people you told and invited onto our may trip ya pisshead.

its still raining in albany and will be for the next week or so.

this may we will be on the island for 8 days so you had better save your energy for that mitch.

and some fishn stories to.

louise has had a few pains today so it shouldnt be long now.

how did that new deck pump go.

and did ya get the photos beside the stickers or what.

as you know adam i,m not at home but i beleive the stickers have arrived thanks for that.

mitch you should know that the fish won't bite without me close by. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

and solly get off the computer and love your wife so she will let you come and drink rum with me.

always in it just the depth that varies

told a couple of the boys about cant tell ya bay

yea ask the question if they are keen to get in touch with me via fishwrecked

bloody good blokes .one of em is sortn out me hin number bullshit for me. there keen an seem pretty self suficient so we will see what happens there

 theyve got there own boat 4.45 centre console with 40 honda ,nice rig an ideal for the things we get up to .

they certainly fished hard in coral bay an have no dout they could handle it

would love to take them to pirrahna creek to catch those hords of jacks liven in that scanky littli mossie infested water way

or maybee jack rock ,or trevally alley .even queenie corner for that matter.

sheeeeet im already drooling ,rock on may ,

hey frizza im going back to the bay in july dans taken his 20 ft alli his mates taken a 22 plate joba

and there short deckies .so your names been put down as a possible couple of days deckie come mad as, fisho. thats if ya keen mate lol lol

just come over for a couple of days .ive already booked a cabin for a week ,dont need me boat either

anyway put the roll of film from cbay in today so will have to wait till next week for its return

only a couple of shots of a cobia an banded snapper would be worth postn up.

catch ya im gettn on it

always in it just the depth that varies

or yeah the deck hose worked a treat.the drift anchor did a reasonable job considering the wind speed .have to get anotherone though next size up i reckon .

leave nothing but footprints,take nothing but memories and maybe a few fillets and a muddie or two

always in it just the depth that varies

dead right there frizza

ya would de hook one chuck ya line over the side and bye the time ya ya cut his throat to bleed it you would be getting hit again

ide be scare to jump into that 2 ,3 feet of muddie water as i reckon if ya had a cut on ya body the jacks would be eatn ya

god i love that scanky little creek what a great find that was, been there 3 or 4times in  as many years and there still as thick as the first trip in there.hope it stays that way, should do ,only in there for about an hour ,get ya limit then its of to do some moe exploring an pull the crab nets

mmmmmmmmm jack burgers and a bloodied up beer out of the boat esky . im countn the days already

always in it just the depth that varies

thanks heaps for that andy ill do ya a carton in july.

what dates are ya booked for in c bay

and yes ya better tighten ya drag up mate cause mine will be locked on with an ajustable spanner those sharks will be struggling to keep up when i skull drag those reds into the boat

have to work out a few rules an maybee a kitty for a prize or 2 i.e best alround boat ,biggest fish ,dumbest stuffup. ie the booby prize ,an hopfully a billfish prize,reckon that one will go somthing like you got a billfish SKULL a JUG

 

rock on july

be booked from the 12th i think for 2 weeks  depending on weather i might stay for 3   im booking 3 off work.    the comp sounds good ill be fishing with anchor rope for the reds when im getting double hook ups.   one day ill take some shots of us a work   and ill show you what its like a day a boat mechanic   its pretty bloody good....     getting dad into a 5.5 plate ally we have in at work at the moment   hopefully we'll have that up there...

take it easy and rock on july...

leave nothing but footprints,take nothing but memories and maybe a few fillets and a muddie or two

mmmmmm white sunny beachs lots of mellons and plenty of beer. minus the wind it should be a good trip.

but theres plenty of fishing to be done before then.

glad to see you got the hin number sorted mitch what a headf##k they can be.karratha is my last hope for mine.

the poor old honda needs a service anyway ,and its a good excuse for a trip to the coast.

leave nothing but footprints,take nothing but memories and maybe a few fillets and a muddie or two

always in it just the depth that varies

well the pics finaly got back to me .over 2 weeks waitung 99% are shite none of the whale shots worked .only got 1 decent fish for the trip

always in it just the depth that varies

yeah was a bit of amission getting him in the boat .me old buissnes partner an family surprized us bye coming up to the bay for a week . gave him the job of gaffn it . missed a couple of times .the cob took of again and again . so i told him to try gettig its head in the net. of goes mister cobia again.managed to keep FAIRLY cool , in the end said to me mate ,dont panic { i was doing enough of that for both of us}.go the f#@!$king gaff and stick the bastard idont care where just stick him . he was one releived gaff man when in came mister cobia, and so was the fairly cool NOT.fisherman !!!!!!!

leave nothing but footprints,take nothing but memories and maybe a few fillets and a muddie or two

that dosen't sound like you mate.

and just go's to show that you should not go fishing without me.

i hope there is some cobia left for me or does it look like it's been shot with a shotgun.

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

only joking mate.

anybody thats ever gaffed a large cobia will know that it's not easy .

hit them once ,hit them hard ,and strait in the boat no f#$king around.

always in it just the depth that varies

me boat goes fairly well,learnt it limitations at the bay though ,i.e it doesnt handle a big rough traveling sea. which was the bain at coral bay .had abit of a situation going through south passage, half way through a tackle box stored up the front of the boat went c@%t up so me mate dan went to rectify the prob just as weve come over a big choppey swell ,bang goes the back of his head under the cuddy cab ,bang down goes his head right in the corner of the tackle box ,ouch, splitting his eye open two thirds knocking himself out ,blood pissing every where.comes up dazzed as f#@k groveling trying to hang on to the grab rail, i cant stop to render assistance due to another million choppey swells looming up in front of us,anyway we get out the back of the reef.and the wind picks up to a mild cyclone , dans not looking that flash,so we slap a frozen pack of squid on his now black eye and set the rods to troll down to north passage .one minute we are doing about 5 to 6 knots next thing were surfing down green backs doing 10 to 12 knots .well well the lines are tankled the winds still picking up and weve both had enough of this ,in come the bird nested lures and we surf all the way to north passage.1 of the only times i was happy to be putting the boat on the trailer,anyway we were back at camp by 10 in the morning.,and the wife reckons ive been fishing an wonts a promise to spend the next day with the family,marvelous stuff,

tally for the "fishing trip"

1 split open black eye

2 tangled riggs

50 bucks fuel

a trillion hooks sinkers swivels all over the floor of the boat

a promise to the wife

an a couple of hard earned lessons on the boats limitations