yay a weekend off :)

glad the weather was getting better today so the decision was made to go catch a few more tuna and see if the bottom fish would play today .. and what a day it was :)

left the marina late (8am) as the weather was starting off a little crap but getting better as the day went on. we headed out the 30mile to get to nato reef straight up as my dad has never caught a tuna before so that was my main object for the day. when we got there the chop and swell was still up so the tuna where hard to find so i decided to have a few drifts for demersals.

things started off a little slow untill my dad got a nice k.g in 37m, so i made the call to drop the pick and was rewarded with 2 more big k.g's a huge fathead and a very solid baldy. after things slowed down i saw a pack of birds diving so i made the crew wind up to have some fun. i set the lures for a quick troll on 8kg gear and hooked up to 2 tuna in less than a 5 minutes . as we delt with these guys the rest of the school mad camp under the boat again so out cam the bream gear :) my dad got one on 8lb gear and a smilin jack - that was bloody funny as it took 10 minutes to land.

after getting a few tuna we made a run for the reef and bashed around for a while for nothing :(

i decided to sound around a little more in areas id never been to and found a really nice lump that screamed dhu's so the other 2 guys dropped down patternoster rigs while i goofed around with some new gear i wanted to try. within seconds they both hooked up to solid fish and up came a good dhu and a large queen snapper.. not to be out done i had got my "gear" ready and with a laugh for the crew dropped down a little zest jig on pe2 gear and within 3 lifts had some serious weight on my poor little rod ... and the rest is in the picture :)

my first ever jigged demersal ... woohoo :) .. got to thank ryan and honsu for the gear and advise (was landed on pe2/certate hyper 4000/eupro pe1.5-3 twincraft rod)