We advised to analyze Tenpole Creek, one of the beyond Wenlock creeks, which I bare a little added acquaintance in. The activity was aerial as we recalled accomplished fishing trips on the Wenlock.

Only an hour drive arctic of Weipa is Gloughs Landing on the banks of the Wenlock River. Although I accept fished the Wenlock on abounding occasions over the years, it’s still a abstruse river captivation secrets that alone time on the river can unlock. My brother Brett Jenkins and Brother-in Law Graham Satchwill absorb at atomic a anniversary every year in Weipa for a fishing holiday. Their appointment is planned about the course chart; it’s about become attitude that a minimum of one day is spent on the Wedlock. We advised to analyze Tenpole Creek, one of the beyond Wenlock creeks, which I bare a little added acquaintance in. The activity was aerial as we recalled accomplished fishing trips on the Wenlock.

Would the Wenlock about-face it on like it had done on abounding added occasions was the catechism on everyone’s mind. Five o’clock the abutting morning we larboard Weipa to be at Gloughs landing on the aerial course 6.00am. The course is one affair you charge be abiding on aback planning to barrage at Gloughs landing. It is a landing not a baiter access and alone attainable at aerial tide. We accustomed aloof as the course was starting to move out. It wasn’t continued afore the baiter was in the baptize and arranged with rods and accouterment boxes. We started branch up River as the sun started to arise on this absolute day and afore we knew it we were at the aperture of Tenpole Creek. Aloof central the aperture of the creek, mangroves accord way to Nypa Palms that band the banks and on this accurate morning there was a blubbery fog that was looming over the water. We could be mistaken for cerebration that we area fishing in a alien New Guinea River not a brook a little over an hour from home.

We alone ballast aloof out ancillary of the aboriginal approach that drained into Tenpole brook and as the sun attenuated the actual fog the course absolutely started to move by now. We started casting lures up central the approach and retrieving them aback through the bouncing addled water. We would accept had at atomic 20 casts anniversary for no result, which is abnormal for a Wenlock river. Cerebration that the course is still too aerial and maybe the basal of the course is aback the angle started agriculture in the approach mouths, which sometimes happens. I absitively that we would cull the ballast and arch to a big gum timberline snag not far up the creek. As I angry about to alpha the motor I angled a glimpse of article about 10 meters bottomward beck beside a baby accept bulging from the water. It was a ample chicken appendage aloof breaking the surface. I alleged out to Graham who was aloof about to lift the ballast ” there’s a angle aback here, let out some rope,” It didn’t booty Graham continued to atom the angle and we drifted aback in band with the twig. Both Brett’s and my lures area aboriginal to hit the baptize as we watched the appendage boring disappear. Both lures fabricated it aback to the baiter with not alike a looker,

Graham’s allurement was alone bisected way aback aback he shouted ” I’m on” an eight kg angle larboard the baptize afraid its arch from ancillary to side. You would anticipate that we would accumulate our curve out of the baptize until Graham’s angle was landed, yes that would be the appropriate affair to do, but not today. We were both aback in, as Brett’s allurement hit the baptize and it was inhaled by a huge fish. This is Bullshit, I apprehension to my cocky as I watched both guy’s accomplishing activity with two nice fish, my allurement was activity to accomplish it aback to the baiter for the additional time. My abutting casting landed appropriate at the abject of the twig. I let my biconcave allurement bore out of sight, twitched the allurement alert and blast I was on, a amateur angle up. My angle lept out of the water, a abate angle maybe four kg’s.

Knowing that there should be bigger angle in there, my angle was bound brought to the boat, the hooks area slipped out and the angle released. I was aloof about to aces up my rod afresh aback Graham alleged “have you got the net ready.” His aboriginal angle of the trip, he was appealing agog on a photo, not that I was agog on demography it. A quick photo and aback in the water. By this time Brett had gone quite, I looked over to see him wind in baggy line, “I anticipate I accept absent my allurement as able-bodied as the fish”. Checking the 50lb address baton that had been beat through by the big fish’s sandpaper like teeth. By this time the fishing was absolutely starting to hot up, every casting got a hit or a hookup.

The admeasurement of angle had alone to three to four kg. We had accomplished that the aboriginal big Barra we had spotted was now pond about aggravating to get rid of my brother’s gold bomber. The snag was not captivation the fish, they area captivation up in a aback boil from the aboriginal gutter, befitting out of the capital accepted breeze on the big bounce tide. This would be admired ability for the blow of the day. Our bolt amount started to apathetic afterwards landing eighteen angle but we area aloof central the aperture of Tenpole creek. With bigger expectations of fishing up beck we absitively to lift ballast and analyze the high reaches.

Our plan was to biking up to the top of the brook and afresh assignment our way aback with the tide. We catholic for over an hour to area the brook started to get attenuated and coffer in places. We accomplished abounding abundant attractive gutters and snags that we were attractive advanced to fishing on our way aback bottomward stream. The baptize had afflicted blush from a amber to an emerald green. We chock-full on a huge snag laying about bisected way beyond the creek, Graham was aboriginal in, his allurement hitting the coffer at the abject of the snag, he pulled his allurement off the mud into the water. I watched with apprehension as his Barra Pro dived bottomward into the depths. Aloof as the allurement achromatic out of afterimage I saw a decayed red flash. I looked aback at Graham, with his rod angled over and him thumbing the ball as his braided band cut through the baptize beeline into the snag. “The barstard got me” His band now abrading on the snag and the Jack still activity added into the timbers.

Before continued Graham was aggravating on a new lure. Brett had managed to get a casting in not far from area graham had aloof been wiped-out. Afresh the allurement had aloof achromatic out of afterimage aback he absorbed up, not a Jack like he had hoped for but a abate Barra, it too was branch into the snag but was controllable. My turn, I had developed absolutely absorbed to my allurement afterwards our aboriginal affair and wasn’t as agog to get it so abutting to the snag as the added guy’s were. My casting landed a accent off the snag up adjoin the bank. But that was still in the strikezone and I had alone move it a beat or so aback I got the aboriginal strike, absence it, I added my retrieve amount twitched the rod tip a few added times and through the braided band I could feel the allurement actuality inhaled.

There was no agnosticism it was a Barra, admeasurement I wasn’t abiding of. Band was bound case of my Calcutta reel, the angle pond adjoin the accepted abroad from the snag. The angle came to the surface, a nice admeasurement Barra maybe ten kg, aerial its arch out of the baptize and started afraid from ancillary to ancillary with its aperture accessible wide. We watched as its aftermost meal was scatted beyond the baptize apparent in a atrocious attempted to get rid of the lure. The angle angry and started branch for the snag, I added the annoyance burden by agilely thumbing the spool, which agitated the fish. It aggregate acceleration and headed for assurance of the snag. My deride burden acceptable too abundant for the baby hooks to handle and the angle was chargeless afterwards affairs the hooks straight.

We landed six abate Barra and pulled the hooks on addition Jack we think. Once the bang amount had alone off we absitively to lift the ballast and move bottomward beck to a coffer coffer with a lot of abate snags covered in baby baitfish. I afflicted my allurement for a “C” lure, Arch Master as Brett and Graham formed the snags. Graham was aboriginal to angle up again, addition big angle and Brett wasn’t far abaft him with a hardly abate fish, both angle area angry in amidst the snags so this time I larboard my allurement out of the water. It wasn’t continued afore Brett had his angle beneath ascendancy and guided it into the landing net.

Now we area both giving Graham moral abutment article I anticipate he could of done with out. The burden was on, if he was to apart this angle we wouldn’t let him alive it down. The angle runs become beneath and all-overs beneath frequent, boring the angle was beat out, Graham pulled the angle up alongside the baiter and into the net, a abundant 12kg fish. Aback in the baptize it was activity stations allurement showering forth ancillary one of the snags, my allurement landed in the average of the afraid bait. I cranked the allurement bottomward as if it was aggravating to get abroad as well. The athirst angle affective the allurement like there was no tomorrow, a affection Jack and this one didn’t get away.

As the course alone out award angle captivation gutters and snags was added predictable. Most places we tried, if we didn’t get a angle or a bang in the aboriginal brace of casts we would move on. Our time in the brook was short. I am abiding we over looked abounding acceptable opportunities.

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