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[stingray]

Simple story ...down Thursday stayed up way to late yarning and having a beer ...tides were huge so either up at VC o'clock to get boats in or wait until a respectable hour and go then ...up late breakfast and away ...large roll and a nasty bit of wind snuck up squally tucked in burleyed ..VC went out wide doing the same ...dead as a really dead thing ..pulled hook lines one carrot and a rig ..set hook line burnt rest of a 5 kg burley one run on Pengys rod ..nada zip zero ..pulled hook line 5 carrots 3 keepers ..snatched a feed of mussels and home to find a crew well internched ...handshakes and laughter etc ..filleted the fish ..feed rays went to see a mate ..took the rif raf with me ..shared a beer ..invited them for tea ...his good lady and her mate took over the kitchen cook up a storm..we cleaned up said our good nights etc ..bed ......@gadegeteman and crew turned up at midnight ..never heard the come in ...

Saturday was again a wait for the tide still very sloppy I took Rocktoy and his lad , VC teamed up with a small gadget and the rest sorted themselves ...we ran down to the pass a long slow run battling side on wind running against the northerly swell (not fun) ..no bloody kingi's in the pass ..no cod on the local reefs ...I was starting to sweat ...then with an out going tide we got a bite Rocktoy and RT jiouner set about killing fish first the cod then the snapper ...starting with pannies and finishing with some nice eaters ...I'd say we got lucky ...but then we ran into my lad and his gang who had driven in and walked down to the coast and were freediving close to where we were fishing ...next thing whahoos and yippies ...a poor old kingi made the mistake of being a bit nosiey and he knocked it over ...he swam over to us and dumped it in the boat so he didn't have to carry it up the hill ...

We ran home with small RT driving us very well through a reasonable sea. Home just as the wind kicked in filleted the fish along with a hundred wasps ..vespexd the barstards with what we hope will a great result ...the bait tray being full when we set it and just dust when I checked it that evening ...drank beer yarned ate yarned bed ...

Day 3 woke to wind and rain VC and Shearer went to the pass for a landbased session ..temp dropped considerably from 24+ to 10 this morning ...yarned cleaned packed and sorted ...away home after a wonderful lunch sorted by Shearer good lady ...a wonderful weekend full of humour and bullshit and just great company ! Thanks guys , next year we will do it all again ....because it is simply great fun ..cheers Stingray

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