The trip started off with a nice casual drive from and over night stay at our beach shack with some time to waste we took the scenic route thru port Denison and dongra on the way and off corse I wanted to stop at the tackleworld country just for a look at and walked away a bit disappointed then head off to the warf to throw our gear on the boat and have a few drinks until the rest off the boys turned up then off to the pub for a good feed. Back to the boat and we continued talking and drinking to the we hours off Wednesday morning and we decided to get a few zzz before departure
We woke up to a heavy shower off rain and the we set off for the islands And breaky was cooking away with that done I thought I'd have a few more zzz then out off the blue I was down the back throwing up ( few to many drinks nite before) went bak to laying down and was feeling fine bout half hour before first drop so thought better start getting me gear ready out comes me arsenal of rods and reels but main one I used for the trip was me new GAGH crony rod teamed up with a shimano twinpower 5000 running pe2 then out me old faithful blue mackerel pattern flat sider jig on with a hand made squid assist. Things were a bit slow for me on the jigs but the bait boys were pulling up a few red throat emporers and others. It wasn't until bout 2-3 drift in I was finally hoped up and putting the new rod to the test and hamling it well feeling a few head shakes I was calling for a pinky and that wat came up a new personal best for me at 73cm went a bit quiet for me then started feeling sick again so went for a lay down in the eskies for the rest off the day off to the mooring for the night I perked up a bit and were all treated to a nice cheeseboard spread for a late afternoon tea and a good tea

Day 2
Another quiet day for me still persisting with jigs but still kept trying next min I was hooked again a nice big long run Then got some line back in another short run and it had run out off puff and easily pulled it in up pops a nicer pinky and beating the days before pb now upto 80cm went quiet for a while for me then boom hooked up no fight so pulled to the surface and up comes a stinky nor west blowie on jig quick pose for the camera ahahah then went quiet for me again while others were pulling up baldies and smaller sized pinkies headed bak to mooring for another spread off afternoon tea and nice dinners and drinks to go with

Day three proved to be yet another quiet day for me but resulted in the first dhuie for the trip on the boat and yet another pb for me at 80cm That day also proved to be a bit costly nd lost a few jigs

Day 4 the swell was down so were able to go to the shallows so decided to break out the light outfit for a bit off fun but proved to be a bit expensive with hooking up twice with one reefng me and the other given me a good fight until the 10lb braid snapped after a good 100m run and thumbing the spool so decided to go bak to the heavy gear and pulled up a few undersize uSpangos and goat fish then we head a bit deeper and first drop resulted in the boats 2nd dhuie at75cm

The last day. Proved me best day with the most action we hit a few lumps on the way back to port half way back first drop I was on and up pops a 57cm dhuie 3 drift resulted it a big bust off tied on another jig and 4th drifte hooked again Bit off a run gained some line then another run. Gained line a small run then gained the rest off the line up pops about a 15kg sambo next drop was a big busy off and lost me leader and all so thought get me steadic 6000 with pe3. On the GAGH rod tied another jig on next drift resulted in another dhuie. 4 for the trip and another guy got a ano ther on bout day 4 2nd last drop before we headed back to port I was on was screaming off calling it for a sambo and bang line went slack and was bit annoyed but ohwell
Packed me rods nd reels up and headed back
Fish caught by the others on the trip were coral trout spangled emperors baldies even a cobia at night time and a lil shark mackie
In all was a good trip loved using the gagh crony rod and arms didn't get sore at all and was really pleased with the action off it lot about 12 jigs up and tried plenty but the only ones that I hooked fish and lost jigs were the shimano flat sliders. Which I'll have to re stock up on
Thanks for reading me report. Sorry off bit long winded and spelling and grammar not the best
Thanks chris

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