Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Part two of VC the Fishermans fishing story.

So after a few phone calls we met at my place, cleaned the crap out of the drag drying on the lawn. "Thanks guys".
Packed and headed for the estuary, got their to enjoy the end of the ebb tide.

Set up and headed further down the reach thinking it would be better, dropped the drag in only to find a sunken island/ sand bar in the middle of the reach which the bottom line dug into,
@ROKTOY to the rescue pulling the bottom line free ...then he say hold on reaches down again , then calls for the bucket as a angry flattie breaks the surface in Roktoy's death grip, into the bucket it goes with the mob of us yelling don't drop it , and all sorts of other other blokeish encouragment.

So pulled the drag up the bank the new bloke was full of smiles as the net showed signs of life, a lot of shorts but in the end four reasonable keepers, into the water again with the new guy and and VC#2 hauling hard with the experts offering advice from dry land.

Hauled out another handful of shorts put back for another day, kept the two biggest...so everyone had a couple to take home, the ebb was finishing and the sun setting over the hill.

Back in ...some harvested cockles , whilst we hauled the drag ..the new bloke was grinning calling bites and "ohh shit good bites", myself I thought we had a Ray and a couple of shorts kicking in the drag...

Up the bank it came tails flapping , everyone jumping laughing yelling ..VC in his usual calm manner just call for a simple grap the float line and roll the fish out , well how about that it worked. I grabbed a bin and we gathered up our catch dumped in a few buckets of water then sorted through the catch taking a few for family and friends . Then released all the half grown, shorts and token monkfish

Was certainly a wicked evening made so very much better by the company laughter and yarns, hell the guys even took the time to float the drag and shake out the weed sticks and shells and pack it away clean tidy! Thanks guys!

Another wonderful memory just like the mid week trip . Great people bring great success and the best of times.

Cheers.