o Friday finally comes along and we ready to go, unfortunately the missus can only get off work at 12h00 so we decide to leave at 14h00.
got to struis at around 16h30 to find the mood quite jovial, most of the guys were already there, crap late as usual.
well anyway, early into the evening festivities got under way
check the awesome birthday cake sponsored by the rossouws
and the festivities continued
it finally got to the point that i was the only living soul drifting around the campsite everyone else had found their way to bed....
in between all this Jeremy (totalnoob had landed the only fish for the night...a decent spotty
Saturday morning sees most of us down at Overberg Angling Tackle Shop for our bait presentation clinic.....
of course formalities are the order of the day, just had to have a chat with my favourite struisbaai oom, Stefano
check the table
clinic went off very well with Andro showing off his skills as Baitmaster, i even got to add my 2c (which is probably all i know)....
with the wind picking up in the afternoon things weren't looking too promising, now i haven't had much luck that side with a westerly so i prepared myself for something that has never happened to me in struis yup....BLANK
but it was not to be, my only fish for the weekend (jajajaja it's got fins, it swims, it's a fish)
the missus got a sand steenbras which at least broke her spell
and then it happened, cellphone went off "hie is groot k@k, bring chokka", news of joker's hiding slowly filtered through, dean got a moeviese barbel, and then it happened....
jones put into practice what he had learnt at the clinic in the morning and had hooked and landed a beaut of a spearnose (unfortunately i don't have he pics on my camera but they will be up soon)
later in the evening the topic of fishing the wall for high at 03h30 sunday morning, it soon became obvious that if we put it off til then no-one was gonna get out of there beds for its as it was freakin freezing, the plan changed very quickly and it was decided to do the wall now (even though it took about an hour before we got round to it as the warmth of the fire was way to enticing)....
so off to the wall we go, wasn't long before we heard the all familiar sound zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz and jones is vas again, beaut of a spotty, earlier in the evening mangi got a decent smoothie as well (c'mon guys don't make me say it)
jones' spoty
during the course of the night numerous smaller smoothies were caught by the crew....
i packed up around 03h45 as it was so damn cold i couldn't feel my hands anymore , jajajaja ek raak oud
the beauty of struisbaai
sunday morning we awoke to a steady bout of rain which might just spoil the plans for the morning.....
moved everything up by an hour as soon as the rain let up.....
seeing as it was our birthday we were in a very giving mood and so it began
jones having caught the biggest fish of the weekend was rewarded with 1st and 2nd place in the comp
a voucher for a shark cage dive for 2 sponsored by GREAT WHITE SHARK TOURS
a voucher for a shark cage dive for 1 sponsored by WHITE SHARK ADVENTURES
jones was also the first ever recipient of the VAS PAPPA floating trophy for his achievement over the weekend
for his smoothy mangi received an awesome diving torch sponsored by MASTER TACTICS