Went down aiport creek yesterday. Left at about 6:30am and got into the creek just after sunrise. This was our first time down airport and I think it's a good system even though the barra fishing was a bit slow... definately be going back there soon.

Trolled up a nice flattie within 30sec of trolling, also got another couple of smaller ones which went back. One thing I noticed is that there was mullet and bonies everywhere! only a couple of good throws with the net accounted for heaps of plump sized barra mullet. The amount of mullet possibly accounted for the number of sharks that were there, we caught about 4 and busted off on a couple, and the number of sharks could have made the barra anxious. The water temp was down a bit which might also explain why there was no barra.

After having our livies out for a while I saw a massive bow wave on the surface. Got my heart going and I soon realised it was in the vicinity of my bait. My line had lots of slack (due to my livie swimming back towards the boat) so I decided to see if it had taken interest in my bait. I wound in the slack and came up solid. The fish went straight to the surface and I initially called it for a barra but then it breached and it looked odly like a shark. Since we'd been catching those I called it for a shark. I played it for a while and got it close enough to the boat for a good look and I realised my 'shark' was a massive giant threadfin. The pressure was on now! Unfortunately, it wasn't going to be my day though, we had several obstacles we had to overcome before we landed this fish!

Firstly, my line had tangled with glenns so there was several tense moments as there was slack line while trying to untangle the lines. Ended up cutting glenns line and winding the tangle onto the spool. I worked the fish some more and got it to the side of the boat. Glenn made a shot with the net and got it's head in gave a heave... my braid cut the net and the fish dropped through the bottom. Now I've got my line going through the net with a huge fish on the other end! While we were trying to sort out the net situation the thready decides to head over the other side of the boat and gets the line tangled on the outboard. The 30lb braid snapped shortly after and I sat there weak at the knees. What a fish! Would have been a good photo of the month contender! I was sooo angry at the time I almost threw my baitcasting outfit into the water lol. Not only was it the only threadfin I'd hooked since I've been fishing karratha, it was the biggest thready I'd ever seen. We decided it would have easily gone over a meter and probably would have been somewhere around the 1200mm mark. Another bloke we saw said he got a 1170mm threadie last weekend. I'll be there to catch her again!

Apart from the it was a less than average day. Didn't have any interest from the barra and the other blokes didn't get anything other than sharks. We picked up a couple of last minute jacks on the high tide and then headed across the bay back to the ramp. Hopefully the weather heats up a bit and warms the water up a bit before we head into winter.