first up its the trip from Tom Vagas to onslow .myself spurrie and pete set of at 4 in the morning and arrive in onslow at about 8.30am .we meet up with frizza who has just moved to Karatha.jack and his dad Ab have been on the island for 2 days and text us that there on there way back to onslow to help cart all the gear out to cantellya bay .all up it takes us about 3 hours to all arrive at the island .then another couple of hours to set up camp .we park up that arvo and get on the grogg .Ab has aspecial gift for us all and passes out his pressies .we are all stocked with our new stubbie holders and with out further notice frizza pulls out his little surprise which is Pilbara Pirate shirts with our name on the front just below a skull and cross bones .How cool is this our own skull and cross bone stubbie holders and personalized shirts. next morning everyones up before 8 sore heads but ready to fish hard.which we do till about 2 in the arvo .when 2 friends from perth to jion us for a week of fishing and talking crap.we escort our 2 initated pirates Matt and Tricky back to the island camp and help get them settled and now we have 8..... .they to are given a shirt and stubbie holder and its another night seeing who can right themselves off the most . next day we all hit hurtsville .i jump on Matts 5.4 quinnie to give the new boys a bit of a heads up on how to go about it ..with a couple of lures tossed out the back it doesnt take long for Matt and Tricky to find out all the trevs are hungry and over 10 kg ,,and all the queenies are big and airbourne ..with double hookups on both as well as another on barracuda with Matts cuda getting air and putting the first scar onthe new quinnies hull . over the next week we chop and change on the boats so everyone basicaly has a fish with each other at some point .with an array of fish caught everyones loving it friday comes along and its a big night as we all help Matt celbrate his 40th birthday.the next day Matt Tricky and Pete pack up and we all don our shirts for a group pic before they leave for the big smoke.i hope the new boys had good time with a few p.b,s on the fish stakes and few good yarns to tell the crew in perth and now there is 5..... the rest of us fish hard till monday when its Jack and Abs turn to pack up and head back to vagas which leaves only 3....... frizza spurrie and myself spend the next 3 days fishing and drinking and generaly pulling the piss out of each other before we to pack up and head home .all up i spent 12 days on the island with another 2 coming and going .it was another great trip for all involved.with highlights for all .one being frizz and pete diving in about 1.5 metres of water only to look behind them and see what frizza estamated to be a 300kg queensland groper only inches from his shoulder .rounder than a 44 gallon drum and twice as long the boys spent very little time getting out of the water.this thing was that big in a 1.5m of water its tail was breaking the surface as it idled along the reef ledge.they nick named the big fella Boo..another was Tricky falling of the back of Matts boat in about a hundred kms of run .one second hes at the back of the boat next second he:s doing the best Ian Thorpe impression head down arms pumping leggs belting the water, swimming like a man possessed to get back to the boat while me and Matt just stood there laughing our guts out . he made it but the look in his eyes when he hit the water will stay with me for a long time .another was finding some structure and drifting passed it time and time again .with every pass ,double and triple hook ups on big spanglies ,cobia ,reds , a good trout .trevally and of course shark after shark.another highlight for me was sight casting on 20lb braid to a single trev of about 20lb in about 2 foot of water only to see the trev monster the popper and tear line from the little reel like it was in free spool Wicked stuff.thanks to some handy wotk from Frizz on the tiller i managed to land the thing and take a few pics another was a quick trip out to hurtville with jack a double hook up on trevs AGAIN lines tangled some fancy rod sparring and while jack was dehooking his fish i was idly watching so i could bring mine into the boat rod high in the air my fish took of under the boat and BANG one broken rod .. hopfully next years trip will be just as good if not better than this years.thanks to all the pirates who contributed to the trip