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The author was stoked with a little trevally that All were happy with the haul of tailor. took a metal lure.
Myles Bird landed this fantastic queen sh out of Waddy Point gutter.
When shark shing, the wait is real.
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COVID spreads more in showers than toilets apparently.
ting bogged, dropping a beer or not being able to hold your beer – you get the drift.
When we pulled up to our chosen loca- tion, Mother Nature was looking out for us because the drizzle stopped, and we set up camp without getting wet and settled into af- ternoon beers with a lit- tle sunshine.
Heading to Fraser when your Wfavourite fishery is closed
HAT do you do when your favour-
Fraser Trip
by HEATH ZYGNERSKI
ite fishery is closed off? Go to Fraser Island,
liquids for 30 people. This earnt me the first
on the island is to get up that ramp.
that’s what!
We’d been waiting on
‘jacket’ of the trip.
The ‘jacket’ is be- stowed on anyone un- lucky enough to stuff
Yidney Rocks didn’t provide such a chal- lenge and it was easy to skip around them.
edge for a few months as restrictions were eased to find out if our planned trip could go ahead, as well as to find out if camp showers were finally re-open.
up on the trip.
Whether that is get-
Eli Creek was in good shape as we made our way north.
Anyway, our trip co- incided with a bit of a low-pressure system and we decided that a small window would allow us enough time to get there and settle in.
Luckily, I didn’t keep trying to crawl my way out and a quick snatch was all that was needed to get out onto the hard sand and enjoy that first Fraser beer.
Sitting on the dunes with your friends hav- ing a beer on Fraser – why would you want to be anywhere else?
Rain on the way up made the trip reason- ably uneventful, until we exited the barge at Hook Point when, much to my disgust, yours truly sunk down in the soft sand due to the weight of the trailer I was towing, with the hard sand a mere 5m away.
The trip up to our camping spot at Dun- dubara was easy, with the beach hard and wide.
We don’t have a set plan when we’re on the island, we just take it as it comes and what we do on the day is largely governed by the weather.
The trailer in question was a fridge/freezer combo that held enough food, bait and palatable
In low range taking the strain off the car had all four wheels squealing as we got ourselves up the ramp.
For our first few days there was a hard south- easterly wind, so we
We couldn’t get around Poyungan Rocks, so had to use the bypass track.
The only time I’ve ev- er had to use low range
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