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I have promised myself keep this short and sweet, mainly due to lack of sleep and the fact a huge report from my Christmas exploits will be added later today ( Been trying to muster the strength since I got back on Friday, so much time and so little to do! )... Wait, strike that.
Set the alarm for 3:30 am and missed the snooze button ( Dang, shoot, all that jazz ) so drove to the Northside secret location for a tussle with the devil. After about an hour of trolling the hotspots I had achieved a few hits and was smoked by a Cod in the weed, 3 of the 5 hits were on the Jackal Deep Chubby while the remainder ( Including the first smoking ) were on the little Baby Extractor.
Proceeded to the general vicinity of my Birthday bash at about 4:15 am and traded blows with the first Golden Perch of the day, quite difficult to handle on the yak in the dark ( Even though I had more lights onboard than a Christmas tree ). Released said fish and moved on for more, two more hits registered and another smoking run by a Cod into the weeds ended in tears.
Starting to recognise the power of these fabled fish, almost locked drags on a mega slow drift pretty much stitched me up everytime. Goldens pause for a moment during there run to shake there heads, Murray Cod in this location tend to just steam roll out of there ASAP. Did a few more laps for not much before retracing my footsteps. Close to 6:30, in my new favourite area, by the now sunlight bridge, the Sol screamed in pain as a Golden tried to steal my loot ( Came home and serviced it, much better ).
Small fight and a photo later ( While guestimating size around 47 - 50cm, same as previous fish ) I wanted to go home, trying to be a hardcore Native fisherman ( Like many Canberra members before me ) takes a lot out of you, considering it amounts to gym like struggles with obese fish... All whilst paddling in circles clocking endless kilometers on bugger all sleep, day dreaming ( or in this case, night / early morning ) of a caffiene and nicotine slumber party.
