What a huge day!

pezzdog and KJ got to mine at 5:40. Loaded up all the gear and headed to hillarys.  No one there!  Ripper!  On the water by 6:30 just as the sun started to come up. Headed over to my favourite ground near rotto. The wind was up a bit, so i will need a chiro tomorrow, but we made good time and had anchored and burleyed in no time. Couple of wrasse, a huge sgt baker, devil fish etc. nothing too exciting.  Got to about 8:30 and we had enough...

moved out to another lump I had passed before, dropped anchor and I was 1st one down.  WACK!!!!  I'm on, huge tail thumps, different from anything I'd caught before.  I dare not call what it is.  After a couple of mins fight up comes my first baldy!  Size, and a good fat fish.  I was feeling generous, so decided to release it to the esky. Next drop, another baldy, about 1cm undersize, luckiest fish in the world.  Then KJ pulls up another baldy. By now were loving the new spot. 

We then pulled up and went back to the original spot.....  It was on!

pulled 3 sized nannygai (swallow tail) and released 1.  Quite a few BA but mostly undersize. But then the fun really started.  We pulled out the bream gear and the skippy were THICK. Easily boated 40+ between us. Some large models that would have pushed 50cm or more.  All released, but just such a pleasure to be able to catch such great fighting fish every drop. 

We got back to the ramp at 4:30. Buggered!

good feed of nanny for dinner and I'm spent.