Well im finally gonna sit down and right up a report for everyone on my 6 days of diving starting last monday (week before chrissy)

Left the ramp fairly early sunday morning with a very stiff nth east wind and no swell - decided not to head too far so just stayed local... visibility was average in the morning and got better as the day went on. a howling north current meant not a greaat deal spotted - small baldies small pinkies the odd baby dhu and small trout. Changed spots a few times and managed to bag a nice trout of about 4.5kgs mid afternoon and spotted a nice spaniard but proved too elusive.

Tuesdays forecast was look very nice - a late departure as i was going solo and flagpole was heading out so i decided to dive in his vacinity just to be safe - had a greeat dive - nailing a nice trout first drop of 6kgs. So much fish life around it WAS funny.... 2 monster sambos well over 30kgs came for a look , 2 western blue groper ( not often seen this far north) TROUT GALORE chasing bait along with dhuies and skippy. Some big parrots about aswell.... Tried a few different locations looking for that big dhu but ended up bagging a nice groper and calling it a day very satisfied...

Wednesday - Phone call to my regular dive buddy had him VERY keen to get out after being abit iffy to start with.... up nice and early and it was one of the flattest most beaut mornings ive been out on off gero... millpond conditions.... again fish everywhere! rob got some good video of me shooting another 6kg trout and we got some grreat footage hand feeding a sambo also... very friendly.... caught up with flagpole again and changed locations. proved a wise move shafting a lovely 8kg dhu and seeing a couple of others a tad smaller.... Rob didnt have the greatest of day having gun problems and also not feeling the best but he did shoot a very nice 7kg blue bar parrot and i added another small dhu to make our 4 fish limit.... another fantastic day....

Thursday - still bugger all swell but the winds where abit stronger today - the current had died right off which didnt help but today i dove the some local freedive legends. Antony and his dad Nigel Sercombe.....Tried many different places but struggled to consistently find anything worth shooting... I got a pb dive when i shot a 6.5kg trout in 16.5m altho i did need ants help to extract after 3 up and down attempts. end of the day showed a nice trout each a small groper to nigel a average yellowtail king to ant and a small parrot to myself.....

Friday i dove with ant again - today we decided on chasing macks hard again even tho yesterdays efforts drew a blank on the spanish front....

ant had a small 7kg fish before i was in the drink! it did have a friend with it (15kg ish) but it departed pretty quickly when 12ft of tiger came in all lit up like christmas looking for a feed... i stood guard while ant despatched his fish but the tiger stayed well away and didnt bother us.... it was one of a number of tiger encounters for the day..... Ant got some decent footage of myself nailing a 6kg baldie out of 13m also before we moved on to some other ground.... Again a wise move with ant nailing a lovely 7kg dhu and a small trout.... 1 more move showed some great looking ground and i dropped down to nail a twin of the mornings groper! stoked......

Christmas = a restttttt haha

Boxing Day = work

Today ant and i got one more dive in before he headed back to perth..... forecast was all buggered up but still very divable.... burlyed very hard to see 1 tiny spanish some small tuna and a small school mack before we went off after our bottom fish.... ant got a nice groper and 4kg dhu and i shot a nice 5kg groper and 6kg dhu to finish it off.....

Weather was variable but lack of swell helped considerably! Some quality fish taken for the table and a very satisfied group of spearos....

cheers poddy

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