Launch Point: MG
Swell: Low
Wind: Gentle SW
Conditions: Perfect
Participants: Owen, TurtleBoy
Despite the poor and varying weather forecasts leading up until the weekend, Owen pestered me to go fishing on Saturday morning. I think he's really keen to get his Noosa Yakkers sticker for his growler prowler photoed below.
Launch conditions perfect, looking north from MG at around 7am.
Owen's keen to get going, photos by TurtleBoy
So we launched on a lower tide and headed out with the gentle rip. Completely dry bum launch.
No sooner had I passed over "Pannos Bar and Grill" touching my paddle a few times on sand when I stopped to rig up and saw none other than Panno training with the NHSLC on his surf ski. We had a quick chat whilst I sorted my gear out and then it was off up the North Shore. Last I saw of Panno, he was paddling east towards the National Park, looking across at the bar and grill shaking his head !
It was an easy paddle to LHR with lures deployed but sadly no bird activity and no touches on the trawl. By this stage the westerly was starting to blow up a little and we decide to circle LHR for a period of time rather than push on the Halls into the increasing chop.
After 45 minutes and still no hits on the top nor bottom, we decided to paddle back in close to shore across the back of the surf zone down towards the river mouth. Photo of Owen below in close to the lower north shore.
In fact it was so smooth that we decided to cross the Noosa bar and paddle back into the river on the now rising tide. I crossed the sand bank on a small wave about 600 metres north of the river mouth and came down in a nice channel, whilst Owen paddled right though the middle of it.
We stopped and fished for 30 minutes on the north shore spit and chatted with Ann and Carol from Tewantin who are also keen paddlers. Hope you found our blog girls !
From there we circled the new doggie beach area and back around the channel and into Woods Bay to land at around 11am.
14 klms without a bite but still a nice day out on the water.
Cheers, TurtleBoy
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