Rocklands easter trip 2017

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Rocklands easter trip 2017

Post by fitzy90 » Tue Apr 18, 2017 12:01 pm

Headed to Rocklands again this easter for a week of fishing family fun, and as usual it didn't disappoint.

Headed up on the Monday before Easter to glendinning for a week of fishing and yabbying and trying to relax for a few days, there were that many fish this time and we did not need to travel far from the ramp to get them.

The week went very quick and over the course of a week the camp would have boated a few hundred redfin, we kept enough for a feed and released around 3 times what we kept, by the last day all the fish had been eaten by the camp. The Reddies were taking worms / live baits and plastics, all that was required was to find the schools on the sounder and bang you were on.
While the average size of the fish was down from last year there were still some great size fish caught with the biggest for the week going at 42cms.
The Yabbies were crawling well at night as well with plenty of yabbies for all.

All up another successful trip and already looking forward to next Easter
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First Mornings catch



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Second mornings catch



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The Kids all got into the action as well with some good size reddies



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Little reddies were smashing plastics left right and center, had to fight through the small ones to get the better fish



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The old man chipped in with some decent bags over the week



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Stopped taking pics of fish after the third day



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Even the locals were getting into the action!!!



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Sample of the yabbies caught, we used the redfin frames for the hoop nets



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Some of the fresh bait used the second day, stopped collecting live bait as they were going just as well on plastics



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Last day sunrise, it really is an awesome area

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Re: Rocklands easter trip 2017

Post by spyderfuji » Tue Apr 18, 2017 12:17 pm

Wow amazing! thanks for sharing

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Re: Rocklands easter trip 2017

Post by davek » Tue Apr 18, 2017 12:33 pm

A few good feeds there fitzy along with some yabbies to boot lol, cheers davo :a_goodjob:
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Post by Broomstick » Tue Apr 18, 2017 1:08 pm

Nice Fitzy! That last shot is unreal.

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Post by Lightningx » Tue Apr 18, 2017 3:16 pm

Rely nice report mate! What a great way to spend Easter :thumbsup:

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Re: Rocklands easter trip 2017

Post by Boonanza » Tue Apr 18, 2017 5:10 pm

Great report & pics Fitzy :a_goodjob:
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Post by dazz999 » Tue Apr 18, 2017 5:59 pm

well done them reddies are tasty

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Re: Rocklands easter trip 2017

Post by barra mick » Tue Apr 18, 2017 6:04 pm

Great read there fitzy

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Re: Rocklands easter trip 2017

Post by fitzy90 » Tue Apr 18, 2017 6:53 pm

cheers guys, look forward to it every year

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Post by wokka1 » Wed Apr 19, 2017 9:15 am

:good:

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