ALL FISHING DAYS ARE GOOD If you don’t go - you don’t know. But all days fishing have their rewards. Kelly ‘Hooch’ Hunt shares the joy.
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very day is a good day on the water. I say this loud and proud as Mike prompted me to write something for him and said “What about the best day you have had on the water this last season” I sat down and tried to pare one of the great days we have had over the past 12 months and I could not really pare one out. We have really got a great deal to be thankful for here in Tasmania. We have some great land and seascapes to take in when the fishing is slow. The fishing is that good however, that with a bit of pre thought and planning, luckily the fishing very rarely is. You can always count on your mates to entertain if the fishing does drop off the pace and of course the ever present “cabin fever” if the fish are hating on your lures. Cabin fever is that strange and unpredictable mood that comes over a boat when there has been hours of lure dragging for no result. You can never really tell what may happen when a crew gets caught in its vice like grip. It can range from a change of song on the radio and a bit of boat deck boogie all the way up to a nude bait board dance to appease Poseidon the god of the sea.
It may not be a monster but it was Col’s first Tassie snapper and it tasted good.
Then an argument will more than likely break out over Poseidon being the god of the sea or Neptune. This can all unfold underneath some of the best seascape cliffs anywhere in the world if down Eaglehawk Neck in the states south and two minutes later the long corner can go off yielding a 100kg plus Southern Bluefin tuna. All of a sudden that 4 hours you have spent wandering around the ocean going bonkers has turned into one of the greatest days in your life as a mate lands that fish of a life time. It doesn’t have to be a fan dangled whoop dee doo day out game fishing either to be fun by any means. Some of the simplest and enjoyable days out on the water this season has been with my young kids or people who don’t get to fish much. There is a real satisfaction with someone asking to come out fishing with you because they have never caught a certain fish and then you bag them one. I have an old cobber who loves his fishing. After a long work life down the west coast he is at an age where his body is slowing him down and his mobility. He also has a degree of hearing loss as he pre
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