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Fishing with Currie
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Oct 3, 2025
Well if you could have a bad start to a day this was it!! Woke up to leave early to find i had a flat battery in the cruiser !! Then 1 later on the road the belt snaps 😡😡 !! but things quickly turned around as soon as we hit the water!! Smacking mangrove jacks, barramundi, flathead and even barracuda 😂😂 so grab a brew, a comfy chair and enjoy the show cheers legends!!
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Howdy howdy, welcome back to another episode of NCU Fishing with Curry.
We meet up with old Hayden again, we're going to go for a flick,
see how we go hey, just getting on the road now.
Oh this fishing trip hasn't started off good, was meant to be on the road about
6 30 this morning, woke up to a flat battery,
now i'm halfway there and me alternator belts and drive belts
decided to snap, so lucky i always have spares on the side
of the road at the moment, replacing them.
There's the old belt down there, lovely not,
but we'll get her done, we always do. Quick tighten up, i'm just going to put
one belt on it, it's only got to get me home and
i'll fix it when i get home. See yous when we're fishing, yay.
Oh we're on the road again, she's charging,
alternator's charging, back cold again, was a bit of a scare, this engine's not
that old, bloody belts, make sure you stick up
with your maintenance people. Let's go get the fishies, four hours
later.
Cheers old boy for getting me on the
road when you were fixing cars, but i had to wait for our ACQ otherwise.
Look down here, curry needs them today, we're nearly at the boat ramp, Hayden
will already be there, the poor fella waiting.
Let's go get some fishies. All right it is now
10 50, i don't know if you can see that, but meant to be on the water about 8 30,
flat battery, snap belts, it'll all happen,
but we'll get there. We're here now, let's get in the water,
get flicking some plastics.
Yeah, yeah, just aim at the ******* gap, we're flicking.
Yeah, yeah, get them legs ******* swimming.
That's a bit, not enough curries.
Yeah, you can push it a bit, but when you're
lost, that's like not being a ******* circus dog.
Back there, so you sort of get, i get to them second ones at the moment.
Oh yep, that's a little buzz, we're out buzzy.
You turned it off, oh i got him going here Bo.
Got him, on the frog, let's go here bud.
The old rig bud, that's probably the smallest.
Got him, on the frog, first fish on the frog.
Okay, the old rig, Boola.
That's probably the smallest barrable I've ever heard.
Hey come here bud,
He's got a good one, he's got a good one.
Yeah, oh yeah, look at him, look at that.
Straight out aye.
He's only tiny.
Yeah, get him.
See you later, buddy.
Oh, well, it should have got the take, but then I stopped it.
Yeah. Oh, well, beauty. First fish on the frog.
Yeah, I'm gonna ******* chuck another one on in a minute, I think.
No, I did. I heard it.
Yeah.
So they're back a little bit still.
Freebow, and that should just be first cast straight in.
Straight to the other side. Yep. Oh.
I'm going to get you sloppy seconds now. I'll put a cast in now under the ******* tree.
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
It was. It was a jack.
Every time. If you don't get tip-wrapped by missing a jack, then teach me.
It's on that strike, aye. When you strike, when they let it go.
All that loose line, but.
We've found out worse with these rods.
Just missing hooks, bro. We should have a.
We should have a few ******* jacks by now.
Missing hook. That looks so good up in there, bud.
It may be even throw a, you got a paddle tail on? Yeah, I will actually. I would do that.
I'm not speaking at just the fish that's going to eat it, because my lure's ******* rough. That's a big no-no.
Because that's happened more often than not, man.
Oh, good one. Yeah.
40-odd, do you reckon? It's got to get him to stick, aye.
Schooling up.
Ah, that was fascinating, aye.
Yeah, that's better.
We definitely would have found out if there was.
There was another.
Every time, aye.
It's a little bit hard to identify.
It's a little bit different. Yeah, yeah.
It's crazy how much it does take. Changes, bud.
It's different, aye.
Don't take a lot of water for it to *******.
Aye. Yeah.
Oh, definitely with this, it's all finesse, aye.
I got to pack in there still, bud.
No, you get the both for these.
You get the pop and the finesse, bud.
Yeah. Bigger profile.
Oh, you cunt. You rejected me.
You stick.
**** me hook up.
This frog's a lot better than that last cut.
It's got the slime on it, bud.
This frog's old as ****, man.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
That's all the fish sees anyway.
Yeah, that's it, yeah.
Real hard?
He probably got a little bit ******* heavier line than me,
but.
Got him.
Good job, bud.
Well done.
Beautiful, bro.
Look at that, boys, aye.
Smacked him. Off the donut, the big fella.
Finally, missed a few.
I wanted to stick and we had to get off here very soon.
Yeah.
Getting very shallow through here.
So, just pulled him out of there.
Lovely, we missed three
good interactions, good bites.
And he got this one to stick.
Nice fat fish.
Ballistic.
Lovely.
Oh, well.
He is solid. He is lovely.
What do you reckon? One for the miso?
One for your freezer, bud?
Beauty. He is lovely.
Definitely.
Yeah.
He's a lovely specimen.
Oh, he's plugged it.
Doesn't matter how you get there, aye.
That's him.
These snags up here are the ones that are always easy.
That little point there, but it's a lot shallower today.
Yeah.
Get off it.
Oh!
It took me ******* mouth.
Lost me frog.
Jig got me straight in the ******* mouth.
Did it?
Lucky the hook didn't.
**** him.
Straight in the tooth, that cunt.
Lucky it wasn't a jig-headed one, aye.
Yeah, no. Travels, I would have been in a hole here.
Oh, ****.
That's my first back cast I've put in today.
No good.
Because usually when I put that cunt in, bro, I get right back in on it.
Yeah.
Oh, yep.
Flutty.
Am I recording?
I'm recording.
We got the Flutty.
It'll be legal.
There's me missus' second favourite.
Beauty.
He'll be 50-odd.
On the Houdini.
Look at us frying in the sandbar.
We're definitely in the ******* sandbar.
Little buzz.
I got you.
I didn't have the hit, but.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, especially in this current, bud.
Do you want me to net him?
Just to get in here.
We got him.
Long fish, skinny.
Lovely. Literally your fifth cast.
You can't say, you're unreal.
He's working it perfectly.
He's punishing him.
Yeah, he smacked it.
The old whiting net that cunt, hey.
Lovely.
Smacked the Deedle.
Yellowtail.
Nice clean fishy.
Getting back quicker than when he came in, hey.
See you, bud.
Let's get some more.
Might have to big go in there, hey.
I don't know.
I haven't seen it yet, meself.
Barra.
Is it?
Little barra.
Do you want me to try and get up there?
It's only 22, isn't it?
There he is.
Little barra.
Get out of here.
Don't even want you to embarrass
using your little prook.
Yeah, he did actually.
He ******* engulfed it.
I was a little bit slow.
Felt like a Jackie.
Felt like a Jackie boy.
Start the quarter now.
We'll get the bite.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Stingray.
Oh, 100%.
Yeah.
Nah, I reckon
that hit I got was definitely an old Jackie boy.
Got me.
Can you say
that again just for the people at home, mate?
What are we chasing again?
Either a cod or a flathead.
Like you said, if it's a barra,
we just cut it.
Cut the line straight up.
We don't want them.
On the hunt for the mangrove trout,
ladies and gentlemen.
The elusive mangrove trout.
We haven't even seen one today, have we?
Hey, it's a cool one.
He's off that left side
of that shadow.
Yeah.
Pretty much there, yeah.
Right where the shadow ends.
I didn't really eat, I guess.
I don't know what the **** he did, mate.
He didn't find the hooks, that's what he did.
The little weasel breed.
It's a release, bud.
****, he stonked it.
I'm not even changing that.
He didn't do too much.
Took a little strip off it.
Should be alright.
Oh, nah, it's ******* gone.
------- gone everything.
It looked big beside the boat and then
that stripey
cunt, eh?
He snuck one up there.
Are you serious, bud?
Coming through, mid-specs.
Yeah, I usually
wear them long skins, eh? They were going good.
That's one, so quick.
Bunny!
Hey!
Oh, he's hooked him aside.
Oh, that's a stonk.
He might, he'll go.
He'll go for sure.
You need to get some long pants, bud.
Yeah, they would.
Oh, got him.
Oh, that's a stonk.
He might, he'll go.
He'll go for sure.
We just said too.
Just said.
Why do I keep stopping this recording?
I said I'm going to record the whole session.
------- Gary, get used to
this Lewis ----, **** yeah.
He got the dog.
Just opened the ******* beers of the day.
The boys are on, eh?
He called it too. Oh, yeah, easy, bud.
Easy.
Yeah, I reckon he'd go
******* 49.
I'd call.
Yeah, he probably would be closer to 49
than 47.
Now we just need that cod to round off the row.
Put them all.
Cod and a finger.
Don't think we'll get a finger.
Oh.
Look at them little ones, hey.
Have you got many floaties
before these in here?
Yeah, right.
Yeah, yeah.
Plastics rather than the frog.
Jack off here, please.
Oh, I just spooked something.
Oh, yeah.
Holy cunt.
That cunt jumped like
******* five metres, bro.
I just started recording.
He said you get both your frogs back, mate.
That you?
Oh.
He was
unhappy because someone left lying in a
******* lure in the
******* snags and he come undone on a jack.
He come to find out
it's his old ******* lure.
He probably got done by the same jack
******* a year ago.
Oh, that's some funny
----, bud. You'll never see that again in your life.
No, won't happen again.
Too busy yarning from the boys.
That's why I said something like that.
Do you reckon that was a jack? I don't know.
That was a decent fish, bud. I got my drag on
pretty tight and it ******* peeled it.
That is unfortunate.
Darn, that was a good fish, bud.
Busted.
Could have been a barra in his gill raker.
Oh, no, he done you on the snag. He went to the back.
Yeah, right.
Just about to look to you to have a proper
yarning, boom.
Kind of a thing.
Yeah, get her done. Gonna do her
again.
I don't think I was recording either.
Nah.
I missed that one on record.
No.
Oh, I don't want to leave now.
Got me keen again, that.
Felt that, you know.
At least if we get
one more.
Proper jack.
Proper massive.
Might be, **** bro, maybe this next little
video we might. Yeah, we'll give her a go.
We might see fish if we're getting nibs
back to back.
Not a little
Jackie boy.
I just got
stonked. Wasn't recording back there.
Didn't really get to see it. Could have been a
Jackie boy. Could have been a barra.
But it had some size about it.
Bit slower.
Yeah.
Oh, didn't
hook up.
Yeah, but
that one took off. I reckon that was a barra.
****,
if I didn't duck it would have got me.
He's got me.
Oh, you got one too.
He's still there.
Got him.
Jack, yeah.
He's okay or what? Yeah.
He'll be legal.
That's the first one I missed actually.
You got me first, Jack.
I'll miss that so you can get him.
Yeehoo.
Currie's happy.
Ha ha.
What a day, boys.
Might get you to get a hold
up for me with him, eh?
Currie's cheering.
Lovely. Not bad.
37, 38 I'd say.
Lovely, boys.
Come out of that lone snag
in the middle of the creek.
Shit yeah.
Get her done.
I'll give him a release.
Straight into the ******* itchy,
boys. Yeehoo.
Oh, well
boys and girls, that's going to be us.
Hayden's just having his 6th last
cast for the day.
And we'll
head back to the boat ramp.
Been a bloody good day. Couple of fish in the esky.
Shit loads
of encounters and
yeah, been a good day.
Thanks again, Hayden.
Put me onto my first good Jack on a plastic barb.
Loving it.
------- missed a good barb.
I'm hoping it was on GoPro.
I don't know if we'll have it on record at the moment.
It's been overheating all day, but
if not, me and Hayden are the only ones that's seen it.
So, oh well.
He's going to try and argue with us, but
I'll see yous.
We'll go for a bit of a mud crab mission.
And um, I don't know if I'm going to
make two videos or this will just be one, but
I'll see yous out on the water, eh?
Let's get it.
Man, just these last
two trips with you, man.
Beautiful.
Good fish. Let's get it.
