G'day all,

Headed out today with the brother in law (The Baiter). Been a while since we got out for a bash, as last trip out the motor got a bit warm for my liking. Anyway after a few k spent getting everything sorted we headed out to the 40m mark off Mandurah. 

Got myself a nice Demon Blood 64CJ off a fellow FW member on B-S/S/T. and put it with my Stradic 6000fj as a beginners jig set up. Decided today was the day to try the metals all day. Well not quite all day.... but gave it a good crack.

Was pretty slow for us out there this morning. Got started in 39m and ended up with a NW Blowie for the baiter and a very sick looking Pirate Jig for me. I swapped over to this (Can't remember what it was called. Got it frow Oceanside)  

We then headed a bit further out, to around 42m. I kept working the jig from the back of the boat with little success and Doug nailing a lovely BB. I changed tack and made my way to the bow. Was watching a Fishing WA show the other week and Ryan was saying about working the jigs as vertical as possible. The result was almost instant, I cast updrift let it hit the bottom, a few inexprerienced jigs later and I'm on!! Only a little fella, but pretty happy to get a Dhu on a real steel jig and not a Pirate Jig p.s(Nothing wrong with Pirate Jigs I just wanted to get one on the other types)  probably around 40-48 cm didn't bother measuring as it was early days. Kept working the jig most of the morning for a nice Nannygai. Doug got another smaller BB. Just after lunch time and another move I hooked a nice fish on the jig but after a short tussle I dropped it. Bummer it felt like a nice Dhu.

It went quiet on the jigs after that and Doug had lost a really good fish on the bait. So I let myself get lured over to the bait. I rigged up a snelled Herring on a drift bait, and sent it down. As it was getting close to the bottom it got nailed. I don't know if it was a big Dhu or a Sambo but after a few great runs everything went limp. and worse of all up came the pig tails. Back to the knot books (anyone know a good snell knot)

Back around for another drift and this time Dougs rod loads up with another good fish, this time everything stays connected and up pops this beauty!

When we got home this buck went just under 10 kg's. 

So all in all a great day on the water. The Jigs got enough hits on a quiet day to keep me more than interested. But baits still won.

Any jig guru's keen to give me a tutorial around Mandurah feel free to pm. Still finding spots.

Cheers

Chris 

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