Well its blowing a gale in the NORTH, and everywhere else for that matter, between the rain and the drizzle combined with a bit of sleet, I had a visit from a young friend, he wanted to tell me he was taking his young fella camping overnight to Split Rock Dam, You haven't been out for a while he said, why dont you grab a rod and come for a fish? I gestured to him that I might even brave the cold for a while, but if i'm not there go without me. Well I thought about it for a few long hard seconds, I did have a new little 10bb bream reel that I wanted to try. I grabbed a new wilson 4 ft 2 piece light rod and mounted the reel, What a combination I exclaimed! out with a new roll of Italian 5kg Tournament line and my daughter wound while I held the spool, about 90 to 100 yds it held, I grabbed the tackle bag and my vest while Rocky made me a couple of sandwiches and a cordial to take.
In the Rodeo and off on the trek 18ks up the road, I had to go down the Boat Ramp to the bottom (the Dam's down to 2 percent so there's no water here) turned left at the bottom and over to Dan's secret Camping spot, I helped him set up camp and we jumped in the boat and motored along for a couple of klms, I picked a small tree and said just here Dan. Well Dan had his line in the water as we stopped, I handed young Billy his rod and he slipped it over and sat there contented, not bad for a four year old, I rigged up and grabbed a sweet looking Shrimp, We sat for half an hour or more then Billy started to get bored so I gave him a packet of chips I just happened to have in my bag. It started to get bitterly cold then a hit, I was in 20ft of water and this thing was shaking its head, half way up and it took off shaking all the way, its gotta be a Catfish I said to Dan as he leaned over with the net, No it's not said dan it's a big Yella Fella Dan quickly slipped it in the Esky, neither of us had a camera, it's too cold out here said Dan lets go back. No pictures but I bet Dan and young Billy had a great DINNER.

good on ya sumo...

trying to talk myself in to heading over to the lachlan tonight.

good read Sumo, :thumbs_up: a bottle of rum will help with the cold :yes: :blowup:

TOO Late the cold is in the head now

I have actually caught one of those YellowBeard fish SUMO

It was many many many many moons ago @ a place called Tilpa the property we were shooting @ had the Darling River running through it caught some HUMUNGUS Carp & one Yellowbeard which I might add tasted like MUD.

As said in jason's thread I'm not into the freshwater scene & pretty clueless @ what your talking about

JG I think you're confused! its the carp that tast like mud, best bet with Yellows is to fillet and skin them or they are very fatty, when you're up this way I WILL make sure you feed on them.

Not confucious @ all I know the difference between Carp & Yellowbeards & any freshwater fish tastes like mud

The carp we were catching were around 80 cm's if I recall correctly

Like the time we were fox and rabbit shooting on a property near Bookham/Yass. The river was low and was a mass of seething carp in the deep holes near the bank. I didn't 'catch' any but shot at least 50 on the surface.

Hey kkw !

I reckon a freshwater fish would be a bit like eating a fox ?

Not Even The Ants Go Near A Fox

Haha, had a few yella bellys not long back, they were actually really nice, first time id had them, smallest one was 30cms, pigging knife was all i had to compare them to, also got a few catties and a HEAP of yabbies, bloody good feed that night.

Shoalhaven is full of big carp like that near the braidwood crossing (well all of it) Ya can shoot the water and they all just upturn and float to the top!

Good one Sumo