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Defending last years title was going to be hard...
Bloody hard, in fact it was almost impossible but fish were caught by a chosen few. The FangACT crew have a gathering at Burrinjuck the first weekend of Cod open season and last year I managed the winning fish. Been looking forward to this weekend for a long time but the fishing was hard, from the reports gathered on the FangACT website only one member of Fang landed a legal Cod while others got bricked and busted off (Or like me, caught bugger all).
Not to say the kayak collective didnt try, Jason, myself and Josh (Koich) covered a lot of ground on Saturday and struggled. Jason got distracted by sight fishing for Carp while I just trolled and trolled and trolled till I couldnt troll no more. Even the Redfin were in thin numbers but the Carp were in plague proportions (Didnt help the weekends cause). Just when I thought the game was up I spied a following Cod buzzing towards my Spinnerbait but it just wasnt interested.
Boats would come and go from the ramps and a dozen or so big Cod were kept for the table from other visiting anglers (Each to their own) but thats 12 fish between 60 + boats with an average of 3 anglers per boat. Pretty poor odds given the size of this fishery, I spoke to a known Canberra Cod angler who mentioned it just wasnt happening and blamed water temperature, lack of warmth and other factors (If anyone would have a clue, he probably would).
Still, on returning home I was pleasantly suprised to read Fang member Pitch had managed a decent fish on Saturday before lunch (Staying otherside of Dam, didnt catch up with remaining group) and so recieves the trophy for 12 months. I admit it was hard to hand it over as the collection of annual trophies is dwindling, but its a worthy fish from someone who deserves far more than me to have their name on the trophy (Congratulations again Grant).
Looking forward to next year and finding that silly mojo I lost in 2009...
