Hi crew quick report on yesterdays trip Sunday 26th with the swell dropping from 3.5 - 2.5m for the day I decided to head out and fish some spots in around 30m..

I headed out with Mrstwitch at around 11am and were meet with ordinary conditions so the decision was made to head to a spot 8km out and wait for conditions to improve then head out to a couple of other marks I have. This trip I decided to give the old faithful soft plastics a rest and try and master the Shimano Butterfly Jigs I was quiet confident that the fish would be happy to hit these jigs..

After pushing out through the big inshore swell we punched out through the channel and pulled up at the first spot 25mins later, I did the usual sound for ground and found some good looking structure on the HDS showing fish and scattered bait.

I then set up the first drift and tied on a jig and dropped my jig 22m below...

After a couple of drops to get the technique and action right I re dropped and started to work the jig back up when I had a good hit followed by a solid weight something decent had snavled the jig..

After a solid tussle on PE 1 I had this healthy 8 kg Dhu boat side, not bad first drift of the day and my first attempt at using the Butterfly jigs..

First Dhu on jig and first fish for the day..

After a couple more drifts and nothing really happening with the conditions getting better I decided to head out a further 10 - 12km and try another mark in 30m..

By the time we hit the next spot the ocean had almost turned to glass with a gentle 2.5m Swell rolling on through....

Arriving at the spot the HDS was showing a fair bit of bait and first up for me was this 500mm Coral Trout which came well off the bottom to eat the jig..

While I had been using butterfly jigs Mrstwitch had been using the old faithful plakkies and managed to nail this solid 6kg Dhu on a Squidgie 145mm Flickbait..

One of about 5 Pup Dhus on jig..

Over the next hour the 2 - 4kg Dhus smashed the butterfly jigs most were about this size which were brought up slow and all released fine..

Even this little 450mm Pinky had to have a crack at the slow worked jig..

By this stage the sounder was alive with fish from top to bottom and jigs were getting hit every drop mainly by these 1 - 2kg rat Sambos we must of caught around 20 all great fun on 10lb..

After having a ball on the mini Sambo's hitting the jig mid water my jig was crunched 3m off the bottom this time by a serious fish who wanted to go home.. 

After a good 3 - 4 minute battle of solid short power runs on lock drag I had the fish just within colour when it somehow spat the jig/hook!!!!!!!!!!!

I called it for a big daddy Dhu.... oh well I know where he is for next time...

Here I am trying to put the breaks on the lost big daddy Dhu with my PE1 jig stick.. (note - fish in background released it self from Mrstwitch's hook and released it self to the bottom fine lol)

After losing the suspected big daddy Dhu I just couldn't help myself and just had to drop a plakkie to the bottom to see if any of his mates were around...

After a couple more drifts on some more promising looking ground close by I had my flick bait slamed by this 7 - 8kg Dhu which put up a great fight on PE 2...

So by now its around 5pm and time for the "last drop of the day" and back to PE1 and jigs i went and in the perfect way to finish off the day this 11kg Sambo gave my arms one last stretching before the trip home...

What a day plenty of fish caught home by 6pm couldn't ask for a better day and I'm also stoked about catching a few fish on a new lure and technique so all in all another succesfull trip by the twitch team..

Total for the day was 12 Dhu's, 20 or so mainly Rat Sambo's, 1 Pink Snapper and a Coral Trout with only 2 Dhus kept for the day.

With just about all the fish caught on butterfly jigs I think I will using them a bit more from now on..

Hope you enjoyed the report I sure enjoyed making it....

Cheers Lloyd

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