First little session in a while.

[Ducksta]

Been pretty quiet round here.
Floods shut down the fishing what feels like months ago.
Then I picked up covid after being "encouraged" to start attending the office again, which stopped me dead for a week, then got everyone in the house one by one.
So I haven't done much.
But the boss said last night she was going to go buy some fish, I said hang about let's see if I can find one first since I've got tomorrow free.

Anyway, I dragged the kayak in for gentleman's hours, about 7.30. It was a tough launch, with not much water.

I brought my new gopro to test it out before a barra trip next month. Wouldn't power up at all. Good start...

After I pinned this guy, I realised I had left my pliers on the shelf in the garage...
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Then I picked up this little lady and I realised I didn't have my keeper bag, my lip grippers or my knife either...
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Some time during the battle the anti reverse on my reel gave out, which doesn't make much difference in the fight but is an absolute pain in the bum trying to use one hand to hold the rod and one hand to net...

I dispatched her with a screw driver and let her bleed out in the landing net.
I thought OK that's dinner and I'm totally unprepared I'll pull out. Went and had a look at my launch spot. Remembered how hard it was to launch, and thought about how hard it would be to get out with no water. So decided to float around some more.

Got a few more little tackers.
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Then saw some activity and threw a little knock off chubby (might be a 'saku' brand?) at the bait exploding.
Hooked a really nice fish. Definitely larger than the earlier one. Probably (definitely) larger than I'd be happy keeping. Got it up, got the net in, the net was clearly too small but I didn't have a lot of options so dug it under her. Her head went in, the trebles caught net, and the fish went out.
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Took the wind right out of my sails...
Half heartedly worked along some more when this guy (not fishing) just paddled over in front of me and through all the unfished water.
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Did a u turn and half heartedly fished my way home.
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While I was bending over to put the trolley under the yak, the Velcro on my pocket decided its no longer strong enough to hold back the weight of a phone, so that went in the drink (thankfully seems OK)

I'm now really tired. Pretty covid fatigue is very real. I hope it clears off before next month.