Headed out today for the first time in 6 weeks with the intention of a quick fish with my folks before picking up wife and bub for a picnic lunch at Garden Island.

After launching at woodies at the friendly hour of 0845, we headed north to North Mole with the aim of getting a couple of squid for lunch/bait.

Being very an unorganised this morning, I had to spend a bit of time getting rigs ready so while I was doing that, we threw out a couple of lures (big purple lazer pro, and small golden one) whilst my father steered along the north side of North mole. 

Just as I finished the final squid rig, the larger of the two reels we had out the back started to scream. Initial call was either a Norwest blowy or a small Sambo. They just wasn't much fight. 

Not edit overly confident on what I had hooked, I tightened the drag up and after a brief fight, I started to shout  expletives as a large silver fish started to emerge. I then thought it was a sambo all the way up until it broke the surface and lay on its side.

Very quickly into the net and onto the boat and the authorities would have been called about a woman screaming around the north Fremantle area. I was very excited as we had spent hours and hours out behind GI without luck. This was my 2nd pinky, the first was on a charter earlier this year.

A couple of quick photos and it was into the esky and lures back in the drink hoping for another. It wasn't to be. 

Fish ended up 84cm and a shade under 10kg. Picture clearly shows where we were....

remainder of the day was 

0 squid

1 10cm pinky at Hall Bank

2 wrasse

6 sand whiting at the windmills.

lunch ended up getting canned as the mrs has tonsillitis. Bugger.

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