time for a fish

The drive from adelade to port augusta has to be the most boring drive in australia unless snowtown intrests you,what a dump, not for me all i looked for in that town was a public toilet to show them what i think, after 2 nights sleeping at roadside stops and not getting much sleep [ trucks keep you awake] i was keen to head off Hyway 1 and head for port lincoln but after more thought decided to go to steaky bay, after buying some fuel half way between port augusta and streaky bay the car started to splutter going up hills mainly when i had to put the foot down for a bit more juice, thought it must be dodgy fuel so kept driving holding up a few cars when going up hill, got to steaky bay just in time thursday avo to buy new fuel filter as it was easter nothing open till tuesday, problem fixed. weather fine so booked in for 3 nights at caravan park and was keen for some fishing, next morning the wind blew like crazy so went site seeing and to check out some surf beaches for the next day, saterday morning woke up to calm weather so i drove to bait shop and got tide charts and catch sizes and limits also asked how much for fishing liecence, no licence needed here i was told, well thats $20 stayin in my sky rocket, how much for a block of pilchads, $20 she says, doh!!   Headed for the back beach on possibly the roughest road everrrrrr, there was nice gutter in the surf right where i parked but i could see a coupla deeper lookin gutters furthar up the beach about 1k, the tide was about 3 hours from high so i just put one rod in as there also was some weed causing havoc, half hour later got a nice bite and not much of a fight but landed what was to be a sweep, nice size about 2 lb, decided to keep it, the weed was disapearing so thought i would put both lines in then whammm the beach king [ my surf rod] doubled over and of course i was puting bait on the other rod so by the time i got to the rod the line had gone slack, reeled the line in quick the whamm hes still on, he put up a great fight and i would say possibly the biggest salmon ive caught and i forgot to take a pic, cooked em both up with the batter i got at the fishing night that i went to with rich and shaz but there wasnt enough to batter all the fillets, im glad i kept the sweep as its nealy as nice as whiting, looks similar but bigger fillets.