I took Mike out for a mornings creek fishing with one of the best Estuary guides in N.S.W. Stuart Hindson who counts among his friends two of the best known Aussie anglers ,Steve (starlo) Starling and "Bushy" from the Rex Hunt discovery channel series, Stuart knows these estuary waters like the back of his hand and although the fish were not particularly cooperative on this occasion (we caught about half a dozen small Tailor) he re- kindled the art of fishing "poppers", we had a great morning! the following day I went out for a trip off Haycock point and no sooner had we got to the mark,than we were ingulfed in a sea mist! quite scary when you are in strange waters! as the mist burned off the wind and swell increased alarmingly and we made a dash for shelter, as we did so the sea became alive with Whales! mothers and calves tail crashing and getting up to all sorts of antics seemingly they get all pumped up when the sea turns nasty,probably because of increased surface oxygen levels? this just had to be photographed the problem was "how" with the boat bobbing around like a cork! the answer was simple, there was a big guy on board from Adelaide who hung on the deck transom and then got me in a sort of Bear hug so I had both hands free, the result was the next series of shots! plus a bag of reef fish we caught!
I had booked to go out on one of the first Tuna trips from Eden today but the weather was getting steadily worse, so when the skipper rang at six this mornig and said the trip was off because the sea looked like "the perfect storm" I was quietly relieved!
Im flying up to Queensland on Sunday for five days to see the reef and do a bit of fishing so the next time I blog we may be talking "crocs"

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