Not the Barwons, D.I.!!

[zulu]

I had a last minute offer this week for a trip to D.I. in a mates boat. I love this area, but due to shocking beach conitions I have not been able to take my boat up since Febuary last year, opting like a lot of other people fishing the Barwons instead.
On the drive up the beach conditions are still pretty ordinary, with us finding the sand very powdery either side Elisha track. Conditions where average with 15 knots of breeze and about 0.7m of chop. Dropped first line in the water about 3.30pm. First fish on board was a mac tuna around the 5kg.which we kept for bait, ended up catching about a dozen of these guys over the evenings and letting the rest go. Deanos ''floater'' was the first rod to go off with a decent result a Snapper at around 6-7kilos.We all then changed our floaters to a pilly and no weight. The next couple of hours were pretty full on with many good Snapper hitting the esky. While we ended up with our bag limit of Snaps,1 Moses and 6 Pearlys, there was really not much in the way of other species of fish. Not that I complaining!
The great thing about D.I. is you don't have to go too far from shore to find some quality fish. I have included some photos of how the beach conditions have changed over last 18 months.

Cheers Troy.

[zulu]

Wayne with another.

[zulu]

Cleaning time.Wayne,nice haircut [ no he is not on a ''work release'' program from prison]

[zulu]

Beach conditions 18 months ago. Notice the trees in front of the cars.

[zulu]

Present beach conditions

[zulu]

The Boys and the Mighty Sea Jay. This boat used under 10lt. of fuel for the trip. Yamaha 60 4 stoke.

[maztez]

Gidday gang Brejen and I used to launch from the same spot .Havnt hit there for two years now and from the looks of it ,itl be a while till we can again .The area is constantly changing so I would guess that it will come back at some stage and make it fisho friendly for beach launches again .
Great catch there guys and all for 10 lts fuel ;D now thats good value
cheers Terry

[seapup]

Nice work boys! Good feed of fish there.
Cheers,
Ben.
;)

[-spiro-]

Solid snaps mate 8-) and what a change in landscape, you wouldn't think things could get that bad in so short of time ::)

[Big_Ren]

Thanks for the report Troy....some good fish scored. And thank you for the update on beach conditions.

Cheers
Paul

[Smailesy]

great report troy nice fish

[Gorilla_in_Manila]

Nice fish Troy.

Incredible change in the beach there. :o

Is that a tag sticking out of the fish Wayne is cleaning, or just one of the dorsal spines sticking up?

Cheers
Jeff

[mickstar001]

Pm sent troy - bloody nice fish!

[chicken]

Excellant catch well done

[outsiderskip]

good fishing troy
great pics

pete

[lattic]

Thats awesome, love seeing the Mighty Tinnies gettin premium catches. Shame about the beach.

muz

[jimbo59]

It looks like it was pretty flat in the bay going by your last photo,the swells hav'nt even coved the old tracks a few feet up on the beach.
And them dead trees have been there for years.

[StevenM]

Nice snaps Zulu

Unbelieveable the change in the environment

Cheers

Steven

[Bundy_Burp]

Good work guys a nice feed of fish great pics to

Bundy 8-)

[sempre]

They must have been fat Snapper