Managed to get a couple of good sessions this weekend. No real big fish to speak of, but the number of nice chunker schoolies more than made up for it.
Last-minute day off on Friday; got the green light to fish for as long as I want. A few dinks to start off, then got this bad boy:
Really slow for the next few hours. Wind picked up at noon but I continued chucking it. Found a good school of these little guys:
Finally cried uncle and took shelter from the wind. Might as well fish for these while waiting for it to die down:
Later in the afternoon I ran into a huge school of these:
Crazy non-stop action till dark:
Started pouring hard so called it quits at 8pm. Not a bad 14-hour session.
Gave the sore arms a much needed rest on a rainy Saturday. Convinced the better half to do a fishing / photo session with me today.
First stop was money; nice chunker to start the day:
Next cast:
Got a few more, then on to the next spot. Birds were workin' overhead and soon enough, some surface splashes. Hooked up within the first few casts and I put her to work:
Make sure you don't post my 'boat hair'
Got a few more:
Bonus fish:
On to the next spot. More birds overhead. Looking very promising. Casted to a point and got 6 of these in 7 casts:
More splashes in the channel. We would chase it, catch one then they start busting further downstream. Chase it again, catch one, then they would bust upstream. Freakin circus. Enough of that.
Time to head to our favorite shady tree and take a little break:
We were rudely interrupted by two schools of fish busting bait on the surface. She can sense I was starting to twitch so off we went trying to make them pay for the rude behavior. Third cast and a 4-5 lb lmb exploded on the airhead, missing it as it went airborne. Yowzer. We got payback on 5 of the smaller guys:
And just like that, they were gone. So we finished our beer before heading to our last stop.
Finished the day with a few more of these along with some smaller lmb's:
Some critter pics she took during the session:
Another nice weekend of fishing. The aggressive grabs of the schoolies and lmbs certainly made up for the lack of larger fish.
Till the next session.
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