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I feel ashamed, a little too busy and overwhelmed by a tad load of responsible stuff. You see I haven't been fishing in weeks, and when I do go the gaps in between seem to get a lot larger. I have some corker excuses though, wont mention them here but those that know me know why (Happily under the thumb). Claire's sister Jill is visiting from Melbourne so when I realised there was an opportune time to dash to the coast on Saturday I was gone in an instant.
Durras Lake was repeatably close to bursting months ago, so knowing it had rained recently I expected it to be open (It was closed). Didn't phase me much as the whole area had changed, some parts must have been close to almost two metres underwater. It made for some exciting discoveries, a change of pace and a good day on the water.
It was still cold on the South Coast, water temp and weather wise (Plenty of sun though). The wind blew cool straight over the sand dunes and off the sea, making for some painful drifts and some forays into the drowned tussocks. Surface was still very quiet and by the time Jason had showed up I had flogged top water for two hours for one half hearted follow. Finding some new bays close to the ramp a Khamsin JR shallow cranked with rod tip high broke the drought, I was looking for Bream and I appeared to have found them.
It was a fish a cast for a couple of minutes, winding down to one an hour. Couple of legal bags in as many presentations, loading up on sub 30cm fork length never felt so good. The lure colour worked well when the sun was at its highest over the tannin water, but failed to entice when shadows covered all. Turning our focus to Flathead didn't help, couple of boats scoured the lake proper and had probably been doing so for many months. Jason got a couple of legals and by that stage I decided to head in anyway, so much fishing and so little mental conditioning!
The new season tournaments are all approaching rapidly, ABT, SSBS, SMTF, with leave passes secured. It shouldn't be all about competitions though, I really need to focus on the social aspects this coming year (Concentrating on friends, and more importantly family). If your in one of those two category's, happy times people...
You will have my full attention.
