Me and a mate decided to give our favorite spot out the back of 3 mile a shot yesterday morning.

After setting off at 5am, anchoring and starting a burley trail we began the morning with a few skippy and a 690mm Pinkie on SP. About an hour later my mate's half mulie got smacked mid water and took off West in a blistering run, we both called it for a Samson fish and just waited for it to stitch him up in the reef below - but it didn't happen. The fish seemed to come up to the surface so we changed the call to a shark and I left him to fight it while I got a few more fish on the SP's (more skippy, breaksea, little dhuie and another snapper). After another couple of big runs and getting the fish near the boat it went deeper and the fight turned into a tug of war. Finally, after over an hour worth of fighting we wrestled an absolute horse of a sambo into the boat.

It was caught on a certate 3000 and 20lb line and having the fish swim over the anchor twice and a large knot in the braid 'magically' come undone about 1/3 of the way into the fight, we both considered this to be a catch as spectacular as it was lucky. We estimated it at 35kg+ and it swam away after a bit of a drive. We continued to fish for another hour or so without much else happening. Also threw in a photo of my first pinkie on SP too, all I can say is there won't be much bait on my boat in the future.

Anyway - thought I'd share a good story and we're both pretty chuffed on our second Metro trip on the water. (Apologies for the dodgy phone pick - just my luck to have the wrong setting when we land an absolute horse!!!!)

Cheers

Nick

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