24-9-09
During the past week I was lucky enough to be invited to the SKEETER BOAT OWNERS Tournament at South West Rocks in northern NSW. Josh Batterson, who is the head of Skeeter Australia runs this awesome event annually and gives skeeter boat owners a chance to mingle with other owners and have a fish at a destination that is different.
Fishing with Gold Coast ABT winner, Tristan Taylor, was awesome fun over the weekend as it gave me a chance to show him how to fish......haha NOT!! Fishing South West Rocks was very similar to fishing every northern NSW river system with it being a deep water bite using plastics on 1/8th or 1/6th jigheads in fast current along deep rock walls or cranking deep hardbodies down the face which at the end of the day can be a little boring when you are use to chasing Bream in 1 foot of water with waves breaking over bommies all around you. No disrespect to our NSW counterparts but the truth is I CAN’T DO IT!!!
So a quick summary of the weekend’s fishing.
Day One: We did the rock wall thing, I threw 2” Gulp shrimp in Peppered prawn on a 1/8th TT Jighead and Tristo threw an Atomic Metalz 1/8th blade: End result Two fish 25cm FL and 25.5cm FL. Went to oyster racks, got dusted a few times heaps of undersize fish. Ended the day in 4th place with only 2 teams getting 5 fish.
Day Two: We changed rock walls, and did the rock wall thing ’AGAIN’ for no fish. Then with shallow water anxiety we went to South West Rocks notorious oyster racks right up river. There we sighted heaps of fish and caught heaps of flathead but had no bream love. We then headed to the mouth to chase jewies and within two 400m drifts we had four bream with the biggest being 28.5cm FL. Go figure. Ended the comp in 7th place.
All in all a fantastic job done by Josh and the crew at Skeeter Australia to put on and awesome weekend where the fishing was really second place to the social aspect and the chance to mingle with guys you have only heard of. After seeing all the different models of Skeeters and getting the chance to drive one, I know what I’m asking Santa to bring me for Christmas!!!
Happy Breaming,
Grayson
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