SUMOFISHIN
18-11-07, 10:06 AM
Fishin with SUMO
Its Saturday 17th November 5:00AM Im awake and not feeling too good, but it’s the day, the day that the fishing Club has arranged a bus trip to Niangala, we are going to a Private Farm set up with a Bar B Q facility beside a dam which covers an area of 12 acres.
There’s supposed to Rainbow Trout in the dam too, So I wasn’t going to miss this trip,
I took some pain killers and got my gear ready the bus is leaving at 7:30 and I will be one of the few of only 14 on board for the trip.
We boarded the bus in front of the Bowling club for the trip, with everybody’s gear on board and the big esky with all of the Bar B Q gear inside, away we went chatting about this place we have never seen, it didn’t take long to reach Tamworth and we were still travelling looking at the creeks and rivers as we went, the paddocks looked greener as we travelled, you wouldn’t have thought that only 75 kilometres back we are in drought.
We reached Port Stevens Cutting and up we went weaving and winding as we went, another 10 to 15 minutes and we reached the top.
I think a few on the bus were feeling a bit squirmish by this time, I was! Away we went, 100ks behind us and about 15 to go, we were looking for the property gate,
found it! but there’s a bar over the gateway and the bus won’t fit, the machinery gate in the paddock beside should get us in, we drove through the gate and up the paddock where we found the road out of the house yard, which continued down the open paddocks, the owners met us along the way, they told us to keep going until we found the cabin and the dam, we had it to ourselves , we had a 10ft tinnie and some canoe’s at our disposal, another 10 minutes down the paddocks and we arrived at our destination.
Out came all the fancy fishing gear and fly rods, the young blokes were keen to fish and most of us just needed to have a cuppa and stretch our legs, we sat around for a while and watched.
Macca and I just relaxed and decided when the tinnie came back we would have a go, the canoe’s were all on the water and we were just waiting to see how they went,, we would have sank them anyway!
We got our little 4'6 rods out and on went the reels, First time up for my little Viva Nereus
Reel, I rigged up a soft plastic bait and walked down to the dam for a few casts boy it feels good, well after about an hour in came the tinnie and a couple of canoes to change operators,
there’s no Trout having a bite today they told us, we hit the water and started casting while the wind was just drifting us about then it started blowing wilder, we had a willy willy on the dam, the canoe’s were going around in circles Jim lost his hat straight to the bottom it went, then it was gone everyone settled down and kept trying, nothing happening here, I changed my rig and fitted a little red Celta, about six casts and I was on, I started winding an out of the water it flew and off again spooling me as it went, Macca got all excited and yelled out we’ve got one, it left the water again and I thought it was going to land in the boat, but alas it was spooling me again, I finally got it back and with a third jump it started to weaken, I finally got it back and as I lifted it into the boat the hook pulled, safely in the boat it was mine.
We came in a few minutes later and had a great barbie, after lunch we all tried again but alas it was in vain.
The only fish of the day was SUMO’s.
Fishing Again
The Sumo I can't work out how to post a pic on this site
Its Saturday 17th November 5:00AM Im awake and not feeling too good, but it’s the day, the day that the fishing Club has arranged a bus trip to Niangala, we are going to a Private Farm set up with a Bar B Q facility beside a dam which covers an area of 12 acres.
There’s supposed to Rainbow Trout in the dam too, So I wasn’t going to miss this trip,
I took some pain killers and got my gear ready the bus is leaving at 7:30 and I will be one of the few of only 14 on board for the trip.
We boarded the bus in front of the Bowling club for the trip, with everybody’s gear on board and the big esky with all of the Bar B Q gear inside, away we went chatting about this place we have never seen, it didn’t take long to reach Tamworth and we were still travelling looking at the creeks and rivers as we went, the paddocks looked greener as we travelled, you wouldn’t have thought that only 75 kilometres back we are in drought.
We reached Port Stevens Cutting and up we went weaving and winding as we went, another 10 to 15 minutes and we reached the top.
I think a few on the bus were feeling a bit squirmish by this time, I was! Away we went, 100ks behind us and about 15 to go, we were looking for the property gate,
found it! but there’s a bar over the gateway and the bus won’t fit, the machinery gate in the paddock beside should get us in, we drove through the gate and up the paddock where we found the road out of the house yard, which continued down the open paddocks, the owners met us along the way, they told us to keep going until we found the cabin and the dam, we had it to ourselves , we had a 10ft tinnie and some canoe’s at our disposal, another 10 minutes down the paddocks and we arrived at our destination.
Out came all the fancy fishing gear and fly rods, the young blokes were keen to fish and most of us just needed to have a cuppa and stretch our legs, we sat around for a while and watched.
Macca and I just relaxed and decided when the tinnie came back we would have a go, the canoe’s were all on the water and we were just waiting to see how they went,, we would have sank them anyway!
We got our little 4'6 rods out and on went the reels, First time up for my little Viva Nereus
Reel, I rigged up a soft plastic bait and walked down to the dam for a few casts boy it feels good, well after about an hour in came the tinnie and a couple of canoes to change operators,
there’s no Trout having a bite today they told us, we hit the water and started casting while the wind was just drifting us about then it started blowing wilder, we had a willy willy on the dam, the canoe’s were going around in circles Jim lost his hat straight to the bottom it went, then it was gone everyone settled down and kept trying, nothing happening here, I changed my rig and fitted a little red Celta, about six casts and I was on, I started winding an out of the water it flew and off again spooling me as it went, Macca got all excited and yelled out we’ve got one, it left the water again and I thought it was going to land in the boat, but alas it was spooling me again, I finally got it back and with a third jump it started to weaken, I finally got it back and as I lifted it into the boat the hook pulled, safely in the boat it was mine.
We came in a few minutes later and had a great barbie, after lunch we all tried again but alas it was in vain.
The only fish of the day was SUMO’s.
Fishing Again
The Sumo I can't work out how to post a pic on this site