If you get a call at 4.30am from Andy Mac, be weary.

He said "I couldn't sleep so I went outside and pulled my finger out of my mouth and held it up into the air and I am pretty sure that the wind that is now blowing 16-20 will drop by 9am and with the 1m swell, it will be a great day on the water - pack you gear and head over pronto! I have been looking out at the water every morning and I can see the Spaniards hitting the bait on the surface - let's go get a few and after that I will bring you out to the "Dropzone"!

Still half asleep, I gather my stuff and load it in the car, make my way over, to find Andy having a coffee by the boat. I am given instructions to load the boat, cooler, ice, gear , bait and what not. Then I am told that his jock wheel is not working and we have to jack the trailer up with the car jack. With that done, we head off to fill gas and when it comes to paying, he "has to do something on the boat"!

We pull up into the rigging area at Mindarie and he subtly mentions that the parking machine is over that way...........

We head out with a spread of lures and troll the back of Staggies several times and "zilch O". We head out wide to several spots - nothing, then he said get ready we are heading out to the "Dropzone". The only things we dropped there were rigs - lots of them!

Another thing - the fish attractant that he asked me to use looked suspiciously like sunblock and he didn't seem to use any himself.

We spend several hours on the water, getting wet and banged around so much that I was wondering if Andy and a chiropractor had agreed on a cut for introductions. I am also beginning to wonder which end of his anatomy he pulled his finger out of in the first place when he did the weather check!

Not only that, when we get back, I am given the bucket, brush and rag and end up cleaning the boat.

How about that!


Well all was not lost, we did get one decent fish and of course with the Dhuie Master on the water after a 4 month break, he would be the one to catch it.

:P

Thanks Andy Had a good day and it was nice wetting a line with you!

Keep checking the weather, next flat day, we will go to the FADs - my boat this time!