Bill Spring – friend, gentleman and fishing legend.
Passing of a friend, gentleman and fishing legend Bill Spring n Options for northern Moreton Bay
F Will getting in on the flathead action.
–WANTED– Pre-trained old fishing gear!
We will come to you if you have bulk gear!
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AREWELL to a true gentleman and friend Bill Henry Spring, August 5, 1929 - April 4, 2022. On April 4, 2022 I received the news that my friend Bill had cast his last line. Bill had been coming to the shop for as long as I can remember, drinking his coffee in the corner and telling yarns that spanned his 90 plus years to everyone he met. Bill will not be forgotten – every time we pick up a customer’s Alvey reel that is missing a washer, a screw or has the parts around the wrong way, we will remember Bill! Bill was my personal sparring partner. Every Friday we would see who could take the mickey out of the other and tell the worst dad joke. Bill managed to get a few in and, just quietly,
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I think he gave a couple away! We will miss that cheeky grin, the hidden giggle when he had a win, the spilt coffee, the biscuit crumbs on the floor and the cracking yarns. I did not have the heart to tell him that the photo of the massive whiting he carried around was actually a mullet, but then I think he knew that already! Carry on Bill, keep telling those stories to the fishos who went before you – know you will be missed. For you now there no such thing as a last cast. Rest in peace, my friend. June is a month we look forward to every year – the days and nights are cooler and
the water temperature is dropping too. Time to drag out the winter gear, salt down some pillies or bonito fillets and get into the tailor run! We have seen some good-sized tailor being caught already – from around the bottom of Stradbroke Island and a few beasts from the mouth of the Pine River. Woody Point and Shorncliffe have also seen a few being landed and, after the floods, we should have a cracker season, all going well. Flathead have certainly been on the menu throughout the Moreton Bay Region, from Straddie, Bribie Passage and Newport – continued P18
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